APC, PDP in tit-for-tat game over restructuring
dreams of the Nigerian people. It is indeed amusing that after being in power for 16 years, PDP is just waking up to realise that its constitution prescribed restructuring. If this is not political opportunism, we wonder what is.
“We understand that PDP needs desperately to return to reckoning; and realising that restructuring is the new political currency in Nigeria, it is now latching on and even claiming to be an apostle,” the release also read in part.
Despite the exchange of banters, the APC still expressed its readiness to welcome contributions from the PDP during its ongoing zonal public hearing organised by the “Committee on True Federalism”.
The Secretary of the committee, Senator Olubunmi Adetunmbi, who addressed journalists in Abuja at its secretariat, penultimate week, said the PDP was part of the stakeholders.
Senator Adetunmbi said that the report of the 2014 national conference would be “available as literature” for the ongoing effort aimed at building the nation.
But in a swift reaction, the PDP, in what looks like a tit-for-tat move, said it would not participate in the APC public hearing on restructuring.
The PDP spokesman, Prince Adeyeye, said the party would not participate “because the APC has no genuine interest in restructuring.”
The party argued that the decision was diversionary and a delay tactics.
It would be recalled that the APC had, in 2013, refused to take part in the national conference organised by the Goodluck Jonathan administration.
The APC, through its former Interim National Publicity Secretary, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, said the conference was nothing but mere constitutional amendment process and diversionary.
Mohammed said that the conference was meant to divert the attention of Nigerians from several problems like insecurity, corruption and infrastructural decay facing the country.
Now that the PDP has ruled the possibility of participation in the on-going APC zonal public hearings on “True Federalism”, pundits say the APC has been paid back with its own coins.