Agitations for restructuring, Biafra motivated by desire for economic gain- Oyegun

Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), John Odigie-Oyegun, has stated that the real motive behind the clamour for restructuring and separatist agitations in Nigeria was the quest for access to economic resources.

Odigie-Oyegun said that the present harsh economic situation in the country had brought about new threats in the form of “kidnapping, herdsmen attacks, Biafra separatist movement and agitations for changes to the political structure of the country which underlying motivation is access to the economic resources of the land that have also become political”.

The APC leader made this known at the weekend when he addressed the Second Plenary of the Catholic Bishops Conference of Nigeria at the St. Charles Borromeo Pastoral Centre in Jalingo, Taraba State.

On the party’s restructuring committee, he said, “In response to the agitations for structural reforms of the country’s political architecture and to structure the debate for the benefit of the sustained unity, peace and progress of the country, the APC constituted a broad-based committee with H.E, Mallam Nasir el-Rufai, the Kaduna State Governor as chairman to review the reports of all past constitutional conferences, the APC constitution, manifesto and campaign promises of the party to distill the position of the APC as regards what the Nigerian federalism is and should be.

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“The recommendations of the committee will be reviewed by the party organs and a framework for the implementation of the accepted report will be presented to government”.

 

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