S’WEST APC FLAYS JONATHAN ON CONFAB REPORT

TheAll Progressives Congress, APC, yesterday, faulted a statement credited to President Goodluck Jonathan that the implementation of 2014 National Conference report was dependent only on his re-election.
The party also described Jonathan's statement as illogical and unreasonable, directed only to earn cheap popularity from South West marginalised by his administration.
In a statement by the National Vice-Chairman (South West), Chief Pius Akinyelure, the party said if the Jonathan's administration was interested in restructuring, it should not have waited for three years in office before convoking the 2014 National Conference.
The party said: "The lopsided nature of the federation his (Jonathan) administration inherited about six years should have swung into action immediately and put necessary mechanisms in place to equitably and fairly restructure Nigeria for the benefit of all.
"Jonathan is using the report of the 2014 National Conference as a political weapon to sneak into the hearts of South-West people, whose his administration has not been fair to despite their overwhelming support for the president in 2011."
The party, therefore, asked the President to desist from making promise he could not fulfil. ''President Jonathan should stop appealing ethnic sentiment in order to score cheap political marks.
''A President, under whose watch the Ekiti election was rigged, cannot restructure Nigeria. A president that grant hardened amnesty to ex-convicts cannot evolve equitable Nigeria."
The party urged the people of South-West and Nigeria in general, not to take the President serious again, noting that the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, had no idea on how to move Nigeria forward.
'' Stop deceiving innocent people. Stop destroying Nigerian unity on the altar of ethnic politics. Stop fuelling division among groups that make up Nigeria,@ the party said.
APC said its flag bearer, Muhammadu Buhari, and his running mate, Prof. Oluyemi Osinbajo, had made a covenant with the people of Nigeria contained in the 2015 Buhari/Osinbajo Manifesto.
The party said once elected, the Buhari/Osinbajo government would initiate action "to amend the Nigerian Constitution with a view to devolving powers, duties, and responsibilities to states." in order to entrench true federalism and the federal spirit."