2023: Restructuring and the APC manifesto – Part 2 | The Guardian Nigeria News - Nigeria and World News Nigeria APC Restructuring NigeriaDecides2023
The step was hailed by some as good for Nigeria; some doubted its sincerity and termed it a diversion and mere political gimmick. Hopes were raised that the APC would redeem its honour.
The Nasir el-Rufai Committee made recommendations that more or less aligned with the two promises of the APC manifesto quoted above. It reportedly considered 24 issues of national concern and made recommendations on 12 of them.
The ‘aim and object’ of a political party, says Section 224 of the 1999 Constitution, ‘shall conform with the provisions of Chapter II… that spell out the ‘Fundamental Objectives and Directive Principles of State Policy.’ But equally important is what may be termed the great purpose of government through which a political party implements its manifesto.
When in January 2018 el-Rufai submitted the report to the party chairman, the Action Democratic Party warned that ‘‘Nigerians should not believe them because the APC does not believe in state merger, resource control, or state police.’’ It may be proved right after all. With only a few months to the end of the APC government, there can be no doubt its failure to, as a matter of corporate honour, fulfill even those few promises on federalism. This is a pity.
Nigeria is, in name and in law, a federal republic. The Guardian holds not an iota of doubt however that to restructure Nigeria into a truly federal form for purposefulness, productivity, and respectability is a task that, in due season, must be done. And there are two major justifications for this: One is that before independence and up to 1966 when the military struck, Nigeria, as a more federally structured country, worked and made immense progress in the development index.
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