In order to continue to engender participatory democracy, the governments of the All Progressives Congress (APC) controlled states will send delegates to the planned national conference as requested by the Federal Government.
Ekiti State Governor, who stated this in an interview in Ado-Ekiti on Sunday, however said that the decision to participate in the conference is without prejudice to the party and the eventual outcome of the conference.
According to Fayemi, the Governors of APC controlled states are of the opinion that the generality of the people of their respective states should be given the chance to express their views on sundry national issues at the conference which scope covers fiscal federalism, local government creation and autonomy, state policing, rising cost of governance, regionalism, electoral process, citizenship, corruption among others.
“As Governors, we are governors of all and not governors over our party members alone, hence the need to allow the states send delegates to the conference.”, he said.
Fayemi added that the Governors believe that the conference is an invaluable opportunity to espouse ideological perspectives on these issues and for APC that has enjoyed unprecedented and yet widening support from Nigerians, it owes the people a duty to use the opportunity of the conference to canvass its views.
The Governor however expressed belief that the conference would serve as a veritable means to resolve knotty national issues and a vital medium for communication of disagreement and agreement no matter how sensitive the issues are.
Signed
Olayinka Oyebode
Chief Press Secretary to the Governor
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