Add captionExecutive Secretary, Nigerian National Summit Group (NNSG),Tony Uranta (left); former Minister of Information, Prof. Jerry Gana and Arewa leader, Alhaji Tanko Yakassai during a press conference calling for the implementation of the 2014 National Conference Report in Abuja…yesterday |
• Stakeholders seek action on 2014 confab report
South West delegates to the 2014 National Conference organised by
former President Goodluck Jonathan have demanded that the 2019 general
elections should be conducted on the basis of a new and truly federal
constitution. They maintained it was the yearning of the people from the
zone. After a reunion yesterday in Abuja, the leaders said the
implementation of the report was the irreducible minimum to move Nigeria
forward and build a nation that works for the citizenry.
In a statement signed by their chairman, deputy and secretary, Chief Olu
Falae, Alani Akinrinade (rtd) and Dr. Kunle Olajide, the delegates
urged the Federal Government to initiate the process for the National
Assembly to pick up the report submitted to the immediate past
legislative chambers for implementation.
Also yesterday, a summit held in Abuja to push for the implementation
of the report. The gathering enumerated the major issues militating
against the smooth functioning of the federation, stating that only an
action on the document could solve these problems. The participants noted specifically that the perennial problem of
deadly clashes between farmers and herdsmen would have been resolved if
this administration had implemented the report.
Peopled by the likes of Professor Jerry Gana; John Dara; Tanko
Yakassai and Yinka Odumaki; the summit declared that the President
Muhammadu Buhari administration must abandon its opposition to the
implementation of the document. The summit, which held at the Abuja residence of the owner of DAAR
Communication, Raymond Dokpesi, held that “no progressive government can
and should dismiss the recommendations of such a serious and
representative gathering of thinkers and leaders.”
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