Former Chairman, Lagos State chapter of Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Hon. Moshood Salvador has described the restructuring agenda being sold to the South-West by the PDP presidential candidate, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, as a scam.
Salvador, who is now a chieftain of the All Progressives Congress (APC) and also Director-General of Buhari/Osinbajo Support Group (South-West), further described the promise as a campaign gimmick by the leading opposition party to hoodwink the people of the South-West.
The APC chieftain said this on Thursday while speaking with newsmen at his Salvador Tower residence in Surulere area of the state, warning the South-West voters not to be carried away by the bait.
“What I can say by the restructuring PDP is shouting about is that restructuring is a scam for the South-West. They know restructuring is the agenda of the South and they know the only way they can get it is to ask all these old men to come out and talk about it.
“I will ask the old men what have they have been doing since? The one that joined politics at the age of 27 is now over 90, why have they not been able to have restructuring and it is when they are 90 plus, they think they can come with such restructuring?
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“Restructuring we agreed is a southern agenda. Obasanjo (former President Olusegun Obasanjo) was there for eight years, he didn’t do restructuring and he happens to be a southerner. This is because he knows that the truth behind it is that it is not something that is possible,” Salvador said.
According to him, the APC chieftain said former President Goodluck Jonathan also did not talk about restructuring but only preoccupied himself with the issue of 13 per cent derivation which directly affects his oil-producing region of South-South.
Salvador contended that to have any form of restructuring, it would entail the National Assembly being set aside, even as he said the South as a whole does not have the number when it came to going for a referendum.
He further contended that restructuring was not by agitation but a deliberate act of lobbying and fostering of working relationship by states in the South and the North, saying that this kind of partnership, was a better approach than agitating and instigating the people against a democratically elected government.
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