PDP to boycott APC’s hearing on restructuring

The Peoples’ Democratic Party (PDP) has said it would not
participate in the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) public
hearing on restructuring.

The PDP argued that the decision was diversionary and a delay
tactics. Speaking with newsmen yesterday at the PDP headquarters in
Abuja, shortly after a delegation from China visited the leadership
of the party, PDP spokesman, Prince Dayo Adeyeye, said the party
will not participate “because the APC has no genuine interest in
restructuring”.

“It is a delay tactic to kill restructuring and we are not
interested, we are not going to participate because the APC has no
genuine interest in restructuring. They betrayed their real
intentions. When this issue first reached the front burner, the APC
leaders were campaigning against it, kicking against it. They said
it was not in their manifesto.

“Their national chairman and one of their governors came on
television and said that the APC had no plans for restructuring,
that it was not in their manifesto. So why have they now changed
their mind?

“And if you changed your mind, people are agitating for
something and you say you are holding conferences, you are holding
hearing. Have you become the National Assembly to be holding
hearings? It is the responsibility of the National Assembly to hold
public hearing; it is not the responsibility of any political
party.

“So, the APC is just deploying delay tactics to kill
restructuring and it’s a shame on them. It is a sabotage of the
whole process. The PDP organised a national conference in 2014, we
came out with a concrete proposal unanimously agreed upon by the
participants from all the six geo-political zones of the
country.

“We were planning that if we won election, that would be the
first item on the agenda of the second term of the president but we
didn’t have that opportunity. But it was an item that was presented
to the present government during the handing over.

“And now they’re telling us they want to have hearings. They
think they are fooling Nigerians. The APC believes that they can
take Nigerians for a ride; they can fool Nigerians all the time.
They can tell lies, they can deceive the people but one day,
nemeses will catch up with them because there is no need for you to
say you are holding hearing.

“There is a report on ground. Subject that report to another
critical evaluation or throw it to the National Assembly to enact
it into law and then we will know that we have started something,”
the PDP said.

The Peoples’ Democratic Party (PDP) has said it would not
participate in the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) public
hearing on restructuring.

The PDP argued that the decision was diversionary and a delay
tactics. Speaking with newsmen yesterday at the PDP headquarters in
Abuja, shortly after a delegation from China visited the leadership
of the party, PDP spokesman, Prince Dayo Adeyeye, said the party
will not participate “because the APC has no genuine interest in
restructuring”.

“It is a delay tactic to kill restructuring and we are not
interested, we are not going to participate because the APC has no
genuine interest in restructuring. They betrayed their real
intentions. When this issue first reached the front burner, the APC
leaders were campaigning against it, kicking against it. They said
it was not in their manifesto.

“Their national chairman and one of their governors came on
television and said that the APC had no plans for restructuring,
that it was not in their manifesto. So why have they now changed
their mind?

“And if you changed your mind, people are agitating for
something and you say you are holding conferences, you are holding
hearing. Have you become the National Assembly to be holding
hearings? It is the responsibility of the National Assembly to hold
public hearing; it is not the responsibility of any political
party.

“So, the APC is just deploying delay tactics to kill
restructuring and it’s a shame on them. It is a sabotage of the
whole process. The PDP organised a national conference in 2014, we
came out with a concrete proposal unanimously agreed upon by the
participants from all the six geo-political zones of the
country.

“We were planning that if we won election, that would be the
first item on the agenda of the second term of the president but we
didn’t have that opportunity. But it was an item that was presented
to the present government during the handing over.

“And now they’re telling us they want to have hearings. They
think they are fooling Nigerians. The APC believes that they can
take Nigerians for a ride; they can fool Nigerians all the time.
They can tell lies, they can deceive the people but one day,
nemeses will catch up with them because there is no need for you to
say you are holding hearing.

“There is a report on ground. Subject that report to another
critical evaluation or throw it to the National Assembly to enact
it into law and then we will know that we have started something,”
the PDP said.