The All Progressives Congress has said it will not take part in the proposed national dialogue announced by President Goodluck Jonathan on October 1.
The party said the dialogue was nothing but mere constitutional amendment process, which it said was already ongoing.
The decision to boycott the conference was taken at the party’s National Executive Committee, which was held at the party’s national secretariat located at Wuze Zone 6, Abuja on Tuesday.
Some of the governors elected on the platform of the party were also at the meeting, which was also attended by a former Governor of Lagos State, Aswiaju Bola Tinubu.
Briefing journalists after the meeting, the Interim National Publicity Secretary of the party, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, described the planned conference as diversionary.
Besides, he said the Federal Government lacked credibility to organise such a conference.
He added that the conference was meant to divert the attention of Nigerians from several problems like insecurity, corruption and infrastructural decay facing the country.
He said the situation became worse the day Jonathan announced that the outcome of the conference would be sent to the National Assembly for ratification