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The Afenifere Renewal Group (ARG) in a press release signed by its Publicity Secretary, Kunle Famoriyo, has rejected the recommendations of the Senator Femi Okurounmu’s Presidential Advisory Committee on National Dialogue, saying it can’t create the type of conference that Nigeria needs.
“The recommendation that representation should be based on federal constituencies is distasteful. This political structure has been used as veritable tools of injustice, social, and political discriminations that have held this country down.
“Nigeria has six administrative regions, which have become a defining structure for almost any national issue. Our recommendation, therefore, is that equal number of delegates should come from each administrative zone and these delegates should be selected by ethnic nations within each zone.
“We reject also, the recommendation that conference delegates should be saddled with the responsibility of deciding how decisions and outcomes of the proposed conference will be integrated into the constitution and laws of Nigeria.
“This committee could not come up with any recommendation on this particular term of reference, despite the avalanche of historical antecedents in other countries, more than 1,000 presentations and memoranda, technical presentations from renowned experts and leaders, and several other consultations available to it.”
“The 38 agenda recommended for discussion by the committee is a confirmation that Nigeria needs a new Constitution, which it surprisingly, shied away from recommending,” stressing that “resolving constitutional problems in Nigeria cannot be the most difficult in the world and certainly, not as difficult as the committee, in its recommendation, want us to believe.”
“The ARG, in coalition with many Yoruba groups urged that the decisions of the national conference should only be subjected to a referendum and this process should produce a new constitution for Nigeria.”
“The recommendation that representation should be based on federal constituencies is distasteful. This political structure has been used as veritable tools of injustice, social, and political discriminations that have held this country down.
“Nigeria has six administrative regions, which have become a defining structure for almost any national issue. Our recommendation, therefore, is that equal number of delegates should come from each administrative zone and these delegates should be selected by ethnic nations within each zone.
“We reject also, the recommendation that conference delegates should be saddled with the responsibility of deciding how decisions and outcomes of the proposed conference will be integrated into the constitution and laws of Nigeria.
“This committee could not come up with any recommendation on this particular term of reference, despite the avalanche of historical antecedents in other countries, more than 1,000 presentations and memoranda, technical presentations from renowned experts and leaders, and several other consultations available to it.”
“The 38 agenda recommended for discussion by the committee is a confirmation that Nigeria needs a new Constitution, which it surprisingly, shied away from recommending,” stressing that “resolving constitutional problems in Nigeria cannot be the most difficult in the world and certainly, not as difficult as the committee, in its recommendation, want us to believe.”
“The ARG, in coalition with many Yoruba groups urged that the decisions of the national conference should only be subjected to a referendum and this process should produce a new constitution for Nigeria.”
