The nine-member committee headed by
Governor Nasir el-Rufai of Kaduna State, which was set up to address the
increasing agitations for the restructuring of the country, will begin
public hearing across the country from September 18, 2017...
El-Rufai said this while fielding questions from State House correspondents at the Presidential Villa, Abuja on Friday.
He said the committee, which was set up by the leadership of the All Progressives Congress, would hold 13 hearings.
The governor said the committee would
set up social media platforms in order to give young people the
opportunity to participate in the discussion.
El-Rufai said, “We are going to start
public hearings round the country from September 18. We have published a
call for memoranda and we have started receiving a lot of comments and
memoranda, particularly from young people who had never been part of
this restructuring conversation, and we will go to every part of the
country.
“We’ll have 13 public hearings all
across the country, and by the time we listen to Nigerians and
synthesise their views, we will compile and make recommendations to our
party on how to operate true federalism as we promised in our
constitution.
“What is important for us in the APC is
to separate the signal from the noise. There is a lot of noise about
restructuring, there is a lot of opportunism, there are people that
restructuring is their career, that is their meal ticket and we’ll put
that as the noise.”
The governor said the youths would be
asked to respond to 12 key issues on social media, including devolution
of powers, true federalism, restructuring and other related topics.
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