President of Midwest Movement Pedro Obaseki has told the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) presidential candidate Atiku Abubakar not to use restructuring as a political gimmick to get votes in 2019 election.
Mr Obaseki said this on Friday in Lagos, adding that only a restructured Nigeria would engender peace, progress and prosperity for the country.
Pedro is the cousin to Edo State governor Godwin Obaseki who is a member of the governing party the All Progressives Congress (APC).
“Atiku has come with ‘let’s keep Nigeria working again’ as slogan, if Atiku is doing it as a gimmick to get campaign votes, he will regret it because we are going to hold them accountable to their promises unlike in the past,” Obaseki said.
He added that any presidential candidate who promises to restructure the country, wins the election and later fails to do as promised would be dragged to court.
“We will take any presidential candidate who promises restructuring to court if he or she reneges.
“Once you openly commit to restructuring, we will hold you in court if you don’t prosecute it having made an open commitment; an open commitment is a contract whether verbal or written,” Obaseki said.
NAN reported that Abubakar promised to begin the restructuring process within six months of his administration if he is elected president during his rally in Ibadan Oyo State on Thursday.
Obaseki alleged that he contributed in writing the APC manifesto which included the restructuring of the country.
“I helped write in the APC manifesto, I feel pained because I know that in the preamble to the manifesto it is stated that ‘we shall restructure Nigeria’ right in the first page,” he said.
