El-Rufai-led APC C`ttee Begins Nationwide Hearing On Restructuring

A nationwide public hearing on the agitations for restructuring is set to commence from September 18, 2017.

This was according to Governor Nasir el-Rufai of Kaduna State, who told State House correspondents that a nine-member committee headed by him would hold 13 hearings across Nigerian states.

Governor Nasir el-Rufai revealed that the committee would be receiving contributions as well from citizens through designated social media platforms.

“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.