NADECO Renews Call for Sovereign National Confab

Vanguard

27 May 2011

NADECO Renews Call for Sovereign National Confab

Lagos — Twelve years into civil rule and 17 years after the formation of the National Democratic Coalition, NADECO, leaders of the group yesterday took a critical look at the state of affairs in the country and returned a grim verdict: Nigeria is headed for revolution if a Sovereign National Conference, SNC, was not convened, to address rising waves of discontent in the polity.

On this count, NADECO leaders said, yesterday, in Lagos, that they were returning to the trenches to save the country from the precipice of disorder.

Indeed, one of the leaders, Rear Admiral Ndubuisi Kanu (rtd), said the incoming administrations of President Goodluck Jonathan and governors might not deliver the desired dividends of democracy without restructuring of the polity into true federalism, which he contended could only be done through the SNC.

NADECO said: "There are inundating calls by a multitude of ethnic, cultural and other Nigerian organisations that NADECO should re-enact its anointing by pointing the way forward to the polity. It is our duty, therefore, to draw the attention of the authorities and the world at large to the seething discontent with the present structure of Nigeria as imposed by the 1999 Constitution and to also caution upon the consequences of continuously ignoring such discontent, especially in the light of the goings-on in North Africa and the Middle East."