The Lagos State Chapter of the PDP on Thursday described the much-talked about sovereign national conference for Nigeria as desirable but nnecessary.<\/p>\n
The party\u2019s Chairman in the state, Chief Tunji Shelle, made the remark in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Wednesday in Lagos.<\/p>\n
He said the clamour for convocation of a constitutional conference was not the solution to the country\u2019s constitutional problems.<\/p>\n
“What those who are clamouring for the national conference want is the abrogation of the nation’s entire Constitution.<\/p>\n
“For many, it is simply for selfish reasons but at the end, nothing much will be achieved by such a conference,” the PDP chieftain said.<\/p>\n
Shelle called for caution among those demanding the convocation of the conference, to avoid over-heating the polity.<\/p>\n
The PDP chief advised the regions and groups canvassing for the conference to collate such inputs and forward them to the National Assembly for consideration.<\/p>\n
“The lawmakers may have their shortcomings but they represent the people.<\/p>\n
“The National Assembly remains the best we can have for now and it must be allowed to operate optimally,” he said.<\/p>\n
According to him, care must be taken not to draw the nation back or do anything that will stop N\u0131ger\u0131a from moving on.<\/p>\n
Meanwhile the Pro-National Conference (PRONACO), said the only way out for Nigeria was for the federating units to come up with a common agenda through a national dialogue.<\/p>\n
“Nigeria is sitting on a keg of gun powder and a national conference is inevitable,” PRONACO Spokesman, Mr Wale Okuniyi said.<\/p>\n
Okuniyi said there was need for a Constitution put together by the people of Nigeria, rather than “the faulty document foisted on the nation by a junta.<\/p>\n
“Nigerians did not have a substantial input in the present 1999 Constitution.<\/p>\n
That Constitution will burst, if we continue to patch it.<\/p>\n
“The lawmakers cannot do it for Nigeria. They are elected to make laws based on the Constitution.<\/p>\n
“Nigeria needs a peoples’ Constitution, to give strength to the National Assembly,” Okuniyi argued.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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