……Calls upon APC government to be sincere with implementation
of recommendations
The Save Ijaw Nation Group has commended the
Executive Governor of Bayelsa State, Hon. Henry Seriake Dickson, for what it
called His consistency, in the advocacy, for the Restructuring of the country,
especially as preparation intensifies, towards the 2019, General elections.
The group commended Governor Dickson, for
consistently speaking out at this critical time and for supporting the Opinion
of patriotic Nigerians who have been talking, about the current structure of
Nigeria, which is No longer working.
It also appreciated the Governor Dickson's
consistent position on the need to review the long exclusive list in the 1999
Constitution to allow for the transfer of several items to the concurrent
legislative list.
In a statement issued in Abuja today, by the
Spokesman of the group, Comrade Olufemi Lawson, the group said, it is
instructive to note that when white pap is gotten from a black pot and the
chicken begins to come home to roost, perhaps for once the nation will get it
right and live as a nation should truly do.
"As much as we and Nigerians have given up on
the APC and their style of administration of the country, it came as a pleasant
surprise that the party's committee will come up with the recommendations it
did and in the form it did.
Perhaps the ears that once were blocked and the
heart once made rigid can now hear and reason. We commend and salute the
courage and statemanship of the Governor of Bayelsa state, Hon. Henry Seriake
Dickson who has come out openly to commend the Governor Nasir Elrufai led
committee about their sincerity and for doing for once what is expected of
leaders who listens to the agitation of the people."
"We strongly align our opinion, with Governor
Dickson, when He did say that the recommendations had further strengthened the
agitations for true federalism and resource control in the Niger Delta and he
cannot be less right in his assertion."
"Our group join the governor of Bayelsa state
to call on the APC to be sincere with the implementation of the recommendations
as restructuring Nigeria would calm frayed nerves and strengthen the nation’s
unity.
We call on the leadership of the APC to ensure
implementation of the recommendations of its committee on restructuring before
the conduct of the 2019 General elections if only they wish to redeem whatever
is left of their draining integrity."
The Group further said, implementing the report
before 2019 general elections is the only true test of the sincerity of the APC
on the recommendations.
"What the APC committee did in its recommendations
was the most fundamental of all the approaches to the burning issue of
restructuring in the best interest of the country."
"As a politician driven by conviction beyond
partisanship, we commend the Governor of Bayelsa state for his courage in admitting
a one-time good from the obviously disappointing APC and also commend the APC
on its bold recommendations on restructuring because it was right and worthy of
appreciation."
The group further posited, that it hoped that the
recommendations of Governor Seriake Dickson must be seriously looked into by
all Nigerians, while also challenging the APC to prove doubtful elements in the
country wrong by putting in place the right measures to implement the report
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