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Atiku reiterates commitment to restructuring, national unity

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*Power devolution and state police on the cards, FORMER Vice President and presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Atiku Abubakar, stated that a draft amendment bill for the restructuring of Nigeria was ready and would be introduced to lawmakers on the first day of sitting of the 10th Assembly's session, next year, as an executive bill. Atiku also stated that state police, devolution of power, and resource control issues, all of which were hot topics throughout the restructuring process, were on his agenda. The PDP presidential candidate stated this during his interaction with the members of the Nigeria Guild of Editors, NGE, on Wednesday at the Marriot Hotel in Lagos. He said that both the amendment bill and his five-point agenda, which he dubbed: "My Covenant With Nigerians," were the results of extensive consultations and professional advice. He claimed to have put together a group of professionals with whom he had a series of meetings to brainsto...