IMPLEMENTING 2014 NATIONAL CONFAB, THE ONLY WAY TO SAVE NIGERIA - CHIEF UWAZURIKE TELLS BUHARI

Confab recommendations’ll resolve knotty issues Chief Goddy Uwazurike represented sociopolitical/ cultural and ethnic nationality groups. It is a worrisome development that President Buhari said that he has not bothered to read the report of the 2014 National Conference because as the president of Nigeria, he should avail himself of the reports of all previous conferences beginning from 1914 – that is the Amalgamation Report, so that he will be in a very strong position to discuss issues about this country. 

Let me put it this way: If the President, who is Mr. Nigeria, has not read the report of the Centenary Conference – 100 years of Nigeria’s existence, then something is wrong because that was a conference attended by 492 delegates from all the tribes in Nigeria.

There are 371 tribes in Nigeria and they were all represented. We had and we had our problems brought to table and we proffered solutions to them. If Mr. President says that he will not look at the resolutions that the confab came up with, is it a small kitchen cabinet that will tell him what he will listen to? I am disappointed because all these problems of breaking of pipelines and menace of herdsmen were discussed at the conference and solutions proffered. 

There was nothing that was precluded except the Nigerian nation as one would not be broken. Even at that, we ventured into that but there was no motion on that. We deliberated on issues concerning the executive, legislature and the judiciary and our recommendations are in black and white. Since Mr. President is a very busy man, he has enough staff to analyse these recommendations in a simple language. If he wants to solve the problems of militancy in the Niger Delta, Biafran movement and even Boko Haram.

 If he wants to know the fears of the minorities, the reasons are there in the confab report. If he also want to know why the governors are borrowing money from left and right, the reasons are there in the report. So, for a anyone to say that he will not look at the confab report, that person should know that what is politically impossible today may become politically inevitable tommorrow.