As Ndigbo write President on national confab
Renowned Constitutional Lawyer and respected Igbo Leader, Prof Ben Nwabueze Wednesday in Enugu reaffirmed his last year’s advice to President Goodluck Jonathan to jettison his rumoured bid to seek a second term in view of the precarious situation in the country, insisting that it is only on that basis that the president could become a great hero of democracy.
This is coming as Ndigbo of the south-east Nigeria also Wednesday wrote the president asking him to reject the recommendations of the Presidential Advisory Committee (PAC) for the proposed National Conference led by Senator Femi Okunroumu, saying that the type of conference the committee recommended was completely different from what Nigerians demanded.
Briefing newsmen on the activities of the Concerned Igbo Leaders of Thought which he leads, Prof Nwabueze said history would judge the president right if he ensures the return of peace and unity in the country, noting that it would be difficult for the president to be mobilising Nigerians for a National Conference and the same time for his rumoured second term bid.
“I’ve advised him to please, please try and be a hero and a statesman and forget 2015, that the day you announce to Nigerians that you are not going to stand for election in 2015, you will become an instant hero. You cannot combine two things at the same time. We have national conference which is clearly a mobilisation for national transformation without bloody revolution and off course the general election. I said to him you have to mobilise Nigerians for this transformation through the conference and you are also planning to mobilise he people to vote for you in 2015. You can’t combine the two. I stand by my advice. I will continue to stand my advice,” the elder statesman noted.
Source: Thisday
