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.
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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