Former Vice
President and Chieftain of All Progressives Congress, Atiku Abubakar commends
the resolution of the APC Progressive Governors Forum which called for
restructuring and true federalism, saying that the issue transcends religion
and ethnicity.
The
former Vice President also describes as patriotic the convergence of positions
around restructuring by leaders and stakeholders from diverse regions of the
country noting that it confirms that he (Atiku Abubakar) was not just a
lone voice in the wilderness in the inevitability of restructuring of Nigeria
for the good of all.
The
former Vice President, in a statement in Abuja on Tuesday by his Media Office,
explains that the agitations for secession would not have arisen if the country
had shown sincere readiness to address the underlying problems that feed the
agitations by separatist forces.
According
to the Waziri Adamawa, the restructuring debate transcends the ambition of any
single politician in Nigeria, and that any attempt to ignore the agitations could
make a bad situation more complicated.
He
explains that avoiding a problem won't solve that problem, adding that with so
much hate, distrust, suspicions and fears in the country, political leaders
shouldn't be afraid to confront the challenge.
According
to him, our current federal structure should be freely discussed by allowing
the federating units voice their grievances with a view to finding workable
solutions that protects the rights and interests of all.
He says
the country could not afford to allow bottled up frustrations of the people to
explode into violence, which threatens not only innocent lives, but also harms
the country's economic assets.
Atiku
therefore, praises the Progressive APC Governors and other leaders and groups
for their courage to confront the country's most urgent national challenge,
adding that separatist agitations are dangerously threatening the country's
unity and indivisibility. To his mind, he says no country could afford to take
these threats lightly.
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