2019: What Atiku will do within one year if elected President – Sowunmi

The Atiku Campaign Organisation has said that the Peoples Democratic
Party, PDP, Presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar will restructure
Nigeria within one year if elected President in 2019.

Featuring on Arise Television, yesterday, the spokesperson of the
organization, Segun Sowunmi said Nigerians would have seen practical
restructured activities that government would have embarked on within
one year if the Waziri of Adamawa becomes President.

He stated that the Nigerian constitution was not created to be an
obstacle to development, adding that Nigerians can determine what they
need to change that can give them the desired growth.

Sowunmi said, "The first thing Atiku is going to do once he sets up
his government, which will take six months, is that he's going to set
up a special committee that will look at all of the reports, 1995,
2005, 2014, harmonise them and get what is the commonalities so that
we can know what is consistently being demanded, pull out all the
harmonised stuff, looking at all the things Nigerians have been
clamouring for, which of those things can be signed by an executive
order, maybe things that are on the concurrent list.

"Then, he will look at the ones that require him to work with the
legislature and stakeholders in the country and say look Nigerians,
our constitution was not created to be an obstacle to development. We
have the power, as Nigerians, to determine what we need to change that
can give us the growth we need, giving that he's very good at building
consensus and pulling people together.

"But one thing you can be sure of is that, within 6 to 8 months,
maximum of one year, Nigerians would have seen practical restructured
activities that the government would have embarked on.

"You know why? It's because you are going to have in the office of the
president an Atiku Abubakar, not someone who is paying lip service to
restructure, somebody who has been standing on restructuring for such
a long time, who has written on restructuring and who has advocated
for restructuring?"

On the issue of Abubakar spending just one term if elected President,
Sowunmi said, "When we get to that bridge, we will certainly cross it.
But what I will say to you is this. Atiku Abubakar keeps his words and
his obligations. What he says or signs up to, you can rest assured
that he will do it. He's not a flippant fellow and he doesn't play to
the gallery."