The Atiku campaign organisation
has accused Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo (SAN) of trying to revise history over
the role Atiku Abubakar played in the actualising of restructuring.
Osinbajo had said the
presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) opposed the
restructuring of the country when he was vice-president.
Reacting, the Atiku campaign
organisation released a statement which read: “Given that restructuring has
become the major issue in the 2019 elections and given that Prof Osinbajo and
his boss have been speaking discordant tunes on restructuring, we can
understand their desperation to revise history, however, it is impossible to
revise documented history.
“Professor Osinbajo needs to be
reminded that there are well documented accounts in the Nigerian media
chronicling Atiku Abubakar’s support and struggle for restructuring.
“To set the records straight, we
recommend to Professor Osinbajo the article ‘Nigeria: 6-1 Onshore-Offshore
Jurisdiction Verdict’ written by Jide Ajani, then the Political Editor of
Vanguard Newspapers and published on July 13, 2001.
“In that piece, which is still
available online, Vanguard Newspapers chronicled the successful efforts of His
Excellency, Atiku Abubakar, to restructure the revenue allocation formulae to
allow littoral states of the federation benefit from off shore oil proceeds.
Ironically, it was precisely Mr. Osinbajo’s boss, Muhammadu Buhari, who as
military dictator, cheated these states of their just due by military fiat.
“It is also common knowledge that
the six geopolitical zones structure which all parts of Nigeria benefit from
today is the fruit of the collaborative efforts of His Excellency, Atiku
Abubakar, the late Alex Ekwueme and other patriots.
“Their efforts at restructuring
Nigeria are captured in the Hansard of the 1995 Constitutional Conference,
which is a public document and is still available at the Office of the Secretary
to the Government of the Federation. Professor Osinbajo may want to familiarise
himself with that document.
“The question we want to ask
Professor Osinbajo is this – why do he and his boss constantly resort to
rewriting history? Why can they not campaign on their achievements? Is it that
they are forced to campaign on subterfuge because they have no achievements to
campaign on?
“President Buhari and Vice
President Osinbajo promised to make N1 equal to $1. They vowed to create three
million jobs per annum. They promised to pay the unemployed a “job seekers
allowance”. They said subsidy was a scam. They also said that they would defeat
Boko Haram.
“Nigerians want to know if these
promises have been kept. They are not interested in fairy tales about how Atiku
Abubakar did not support restructuring because they know that he is and was and
will always be an active promoter of restructuring.”
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