…says ex-VP’ll zone offices, restructure Nigeria
The Director General of the Atiku Abubakar Campaign Organisation, Otunba Gbenga Daniel, has said that the South West zone of the country has not fared better under the President Muhammadu Buhari administration.
Daniel, who is also a former governor of Ogun State, said that inspite of the concession of the post of the nation’s vice president slot to the South West by the Buhari government, the people of the area had yet to feel the impact of the administration in terms of accruing benefits and the dividends of democracy.
What is of more concern to the people of South West today is restructuring
He spoke during an interactive session with a select group of journalists.
Daniel faulted claims by the Buhari administration that the people of the zone had reaped some benefits with the choice of Prof. Yemi Osinbajo as the nation’s number two man since the current government came into power in 2015.
He argued that the people of the South West geo-political zone were now more concerned about the restructuring of the polity, which the presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar had consistently promised to implement if elected the nation’s president in 2019.
The Atiku Abubakar Campaign Organisation’s boss accused the ruling APC of failing to deliver on its promise during the campaigns for the 2015 elections to carry out the restructuring of the country if eventually elected at the Federal level.
Daniel said, “For the people of the South West today, what is so much paramount in their heart is not so much the personalities but the fundamental issue of restructuring. Yes, today the APC has a vice president from the South West but that has not assuaged the feelings of our people in the South West. I don’t know how many people they have been able to touch their lives.
“What is of more concern to the people of the South West today, I think it’s restructuring. The good thing about the Atiku Abubakar candidature is that of all the people who have been talking about restructuring, he appears to be the most honest. He has been consistent and even when it was not a particularly popular theme outside the South West, he has been talking about it.”
He also assured that Atiku would ensure the unity of the country, saying that the greatest challenge confronting Nigeria today was how to restore the confidence of the various parts of the country in the nation as a united entity.
“The biggest problem we have today in Nigeria is the challenge of reuniting the polity or reinventing the confidence of all the various components of our people. And when you look at it from that perspective, you’ll agree with me that his Excellency, Atiku Abubakar, towers above all these eminently qualified personnel,” he said.
