The All Progressives Congress has accused the Peoples Democratic Party of a shallow understanding of the concept of restructuring.
The APC stated its position in a statement by its National Publicity Secretary, Malam Bolaji Abdullahi, in response to an earlier statement by the PDP that it was in support of restructuring.
Abdullahi said the party was currently working with the report of the 2016 National Conference and that of 2009 to articulate its position on restructuring.
Abdullahi accused the PDP of having a “shallow interpretation” of the concept of restructuring.
He said: “As the ruling party between 1999 and 2015, PDP organised two national conferences in 2005 and in 2014. They had nine years between the first conference and the second one and one full year between the time the report of the 2014 conference was submitted and the time it lost power in 2015.
“Perhaps, if PDP showed which aspects of the two reports it had implemented in the time it had, then perhaps Nigerians might begin to take them seriously on the issue of restructuring.
“If the PDP now believes in restructuring, we welcome them as latter day converts. But the appropriate behaviour would be for them to respect the efforts we are currently making to deliver on our party’s manifesto on restructuring.
“It must interest the PDP that we have dusted up the reports of their national conferences from the shelves they had left them to gather dust and those reports are now forming part of the work we are doing with our committee, which they have tried hard to denigrate.
“For the avoidance of doubt, the APC believes in the restructuring of the country. However, of concern to us is PDP’s rather shallow interpretation of restructuring as desired by Nigerians.”
APC to PDP on restructuring: You have ‘shallow’ understanding
