Those asking for restructuring are Irresponsible _ El-rufai

The Executive Governor of Kaduna state, Mallam Nasir El-Rufai has described the proponents of retructuring in Nigeria as political opportunists and irresponsible.

While the governor was speaking at the Sunrise Daily’s programme of Channels TV today, he opined that states within the country have had an unusual involvements with the federal government believing there’s no better need for restructuring.

“We meet every month under the auspice of the National Economic Council and working together with the Federal Government we chart directions of economic policy and that is part of shifting the federal- state balance.”

El- Rufai disapproved the call for restructuring seeing it as an hidden agenda for politicians to get their political ambitions fulfilled cheaply.

In his own opinion, he said this:

“A lot of the talk about political restructuring is political opportunism and irresponsibility in my opinion

“It is popular and people that have presidential aspirations think there is a platform upon which they will exploit this. As I said, if you look at the APC manifesto, all the elements to divulge power to the state to change the balance in the federation are there and we are committed to that as a party.

Speaking on the relevance of the 2014 CONFAB, Governor El-Rufai condemned the deliberations as it does not represent fully the interests of all states equally.

“We all know the circumstances in which the so-called CONFAB was put together, we all know the composition, how lopsided it was, how important stakeholders were not taken to account, how even the composition and numbers do not reflect the demographics and the diversity of this country and we took a position as a party not to participate but to encourage our state governors to be there at the table”, he submitted.