{"id":21456,"date":"2014-01-09T13:38:38","date_gmt":"2014-01-09T12:38:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/?p=21456"},"modified":"2014-01-09T13:38:38","modified_gmt":"2014-01-09T12:38:38","slug":"national-conference-no-minority-report-presidency","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/news\/national-conference-no-minority-report-presidency\/","title":{"rendered":"National Conference: No Minority Report-Presidency"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The allegation reportedly made by the President of the Nigerian Bar\u00a0Association (NBA), Mr. Okey Wali yesterday in Abuja that President\u00a0Goodluck Jonathan refused to receive a minority report of the Presidential\u00a0Advisory Committee on the proposed national conference is untrue and\u00a0incorrect.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">This was made known in a statement signed by Reuben Abati, Special Adviser\u00a0to the President (Media &amp; Publicity)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The statement read thus<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">In fact, President Jonathan is unaware of the existence of a minority\u00a0report supposedly prepared by a member of the Committee, Chief Solomon\u00a0Asemota.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">It is also a verifiable fact that Chief Asemota himself was present at the\u00a0submission of the committee\u2019s report to the President on December 18, 2013\u00a0when the Chairman, Senator Femi Okurounmu spoke as follows in his address\u00a0to President Jonathan:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cBefore concluding my address, Mr. President, I want to make one or two\u00a0comments about some newspaper reports to the effect that there is a\u00a0minority report of our Committee. We have so far refrained from commenting\u00a0on these reports because we consider it politically indiscreet and a grave\u00a0violation of protocol for anyone to be commenting on a report that is yet\u00a0to be formally submitted. Now that our report is before you, Mr.\u00a0President, I say quite emphatically, that we have no minority report.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">As everyone, including representatives of the media who were present at\u00a0the occasion will attest, Chief Asemota raised no objection to the\u00a0foregoing comments by Senator Okurounmu and made no effort whatsoever to\u00a0present any dissenting minority report to the President.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">There was therefore never any issue of President Jonathan refusing to\u00a0receive such a minority report from Chief Asemota and the Presidency is\u00a0completely unaware of any factual basis for the claim by the NBA President\u00a0to that effect.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Mr. Wali\u2019s castigation of President Jonathan\u2019s purported rejection of a\u00a0minority report is consequently unfair, based as it is, on a wrong<br \/>\npremise. President Jonathan did not at any time interfere in the\u00a0deliberations of the Presidential Advisory Committee on the National<br \/>\nConference and he had no reason to reject a minority report, if it exists\u00a0and was ever offered to him.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Presidency would like to reassure the NBA that this administration is\u00a0guided in all instances by democratic principles; the idea of a National\u00a0Conference being in itself a loud evidence in this regard. We invite the\u00a0Nigeria Bar Association and other professional bodies to support the\u00a0administration\u2019s efforts to strengthen our democratic process. Criticisms\u00a0of such efforts can only be useful when they are constructive and based on\u00a0facts.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8211; See more at:<\/p>\n<pre><a href=\"http:\/\/www.vanguardngr.com\/2014\/01\/presidency-denies-reports-jonathans-refusal-accept-minority-report-confab\/#sthash.SQ48vcYb.dpuf\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.vanguardngr.com\/2014\/01\/presidency-denies-reports-jonathans-refusal-accept-minority-report-confab\/#sthash.SQ48vcYb.dpuf<\/a><\/pre>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Related Posts generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The allegation reportedly made by the President of the Nigerian Bar\u00a0Association (NBA), Mr. Okey Wali yesterday in Abuja that President\u00a0Goodluck Jonathan refused to receive a minority report of the Presidential\u00a0Advisory&hellip;<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Related Posts generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":21457,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21456","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.8 - 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