ONE OF THE THINGS WHICH UNITE A FORMER PRESIDENT OLUSEGUN OBASANJO AND PRESIDENT GOODLUCK JONATHAN IS THAT BOTH OF THE LEADERS INITIATED NATIONWIDE CONFERENCES. ONE THING WE KNOW FOR SURE, OBJ’S INITIATIVE, THE 2005 NATIONAL POLITICAL REFORMS CONFERENCE, HAS FAILED.
An ex- Vice-Chancellor of the University of Ilorin and a co-chair of the 2005 Conference, Prof Ishaq Oloyede, explained on April 23, 2014, Wednesday, what was behind this failure.
He declared that the event failed mainly because the members of the then National Assembly were not carried along.
> "Because the National Assembly that had the powers was not convinced of what we were doing, therefore when the President (Obasanjo) presented it to them, they just dumped it," he said.
Oloyede, who is also a delegate to the ongoing 2014 National Conference expressed hope that the mistakes of the 2005 Conference would not be repeated again.
> "What you can do is to get the National Assembly to either make an enabling law or to consider this matter and legislate on it," he advised.
The ex- VC has also debunked the allegations that the 2005 conference failed because of issues surrounding the rumoured tenure extension sought by Obasanjo, added that extension of the tenure had never been recommended during the event.
It would be recalled that THE NATIONAL CONFERENCE, consisting of 492 delegates, was INAUGURATED BY PRESIDENT GOODLUCK JONATHAN IN ABUJA ON MARCH 17, 2014. The three-month-long event would provide the opportunities for discussing key problems for Nigeria.
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