A senator of the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC, Shehu Sani, has criticised the report of a committee constituted by the party to look into the issue of restructuring.<\/p>\n
The lawmaker said there will be no restructuring in the country before or after 2019 elections.<\/p>\n
The Governor Nasir El Rufai-led committee on submitted its report to the National Working Committee of\u00a0on Thursday<\/span><\/span>.<\/p>\n The committee recommended devolution of power to states, establishment of state police and independent candidacy.<\/p>\n Speaking\u00a0on Tuesday<\/span><\/span>, Mr. Sani described the report as a \u2018political gimmick\u2019 by the El-Rufai-led committee.<\/p>\n He said the report was aimed at diverting people\u2019s attention from a letter written by former President Olusegun Obasanjo.<\/p>\n \u201cEl-Rufai APC restructuring committee is self-serving, political gimmick aimed at diverting attention away from Obasanjo\u2019s letter. It\u2019s also a campaign document for 2019. It\u2019s not a report worthy of the paper it was written,\u201d Mr. Sani said.<\/p>\n Mr. Sani maintained that the country will have no restructuring before or after the 2019 elections.<\/p>\n He said Mr. El-Rufai is \u201canti-restructuring\u201d.<\/p>\n \u201cEl-Rufai is anti-restructuring. There will be no restructuring before and after 2019.The President had repeatedly made it clear that the problem is process so what are we talking about.<\/p>\n \u201cEl-Rufai simply want to eat his cake and have it; orally calling supporters of restructuring as opportunists and on the other hand submitting a report in support of it,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n He said the document will not be considered by the senate.<\/p>\n \u201cWhen eventually the El-Rufai restructuring committee reaches the senate, it will be photocopied to 109 pieces and shared to the senators to use as Toilet paper. If there are extra copies, it will be shared to Suya and Akara hawkers outside the National Assembly to use it to wrap their products.<\/p>\n \u201cEl-Rufai restructuring report will be shredded and modify to serve as a good toilet paper for senators. If there\u2019s seriousness in restructuring it could have started in 2015.\u201d<\/p>\n A senator of the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC, Shehu Sani, has criticised the report of a committee constituted by the party to look into the issue of restructuring. The…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":44715,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-60839","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-exclusive"],"yoast_head":"\n