Atiku Abubakar, the presidential candidate of the Peoples
Democratic Party (PDP), says he will be committed to restructuring if elected
president.
Abubakar spoke on Thursday during the PDP presidential
campaign rally in Abakaliki, the Ebonyi capital.
He said if elected, restructuring will be the major policy
of his administration, adding that the south-east will be able to attend to
local issues through his “power transfer” policy.
“I am committed to power devolution and restructuring. All the south-eastern states have been yearning and have been propagating for restructuring of this country because they want to have more powers, more resources to deal with their own local affairs,” he said.
“We agree entirely
and that is why it is a major policy of our government to be, if you support us
and if you give us the opportunity.”
“APC had promised the same. Did they do it? They abandoned
the issue of restructuring. They are a very deceitful alliance; very deceitful.
“We are committed and we mean what we say and if you give us
the support, we will deliver.
“They said some
people formed a party. It is not a party; it is an alliance and the alliance is
collapsing and it has collapsed.”
Meanwhile, Abubakar defected to the APC from the PDP in
2014.
He had, however, resigned his membership of the APC in
November 2017, saying “the party we put in place has failed and continues to
fail our people, especially our young people”.
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