Renowned constitutional lawyer, Prof. Ben Nwabueze, on Wednesday reiterated his earlier call on President Goodluck Jonathan to be a hero by dropping presidential interest to enable him mobilize Nigerians for a proper national conference.
Nwabueze, who is also the Head of Igbo Leaders of Thought said that his views on Jonathan shelving his 2015 presidential ambition has not changed.
He stressed that the national conference will make more success if the president pays more attention to bringing about new Nigeria through the conference than pursing his troubled presidential ambition.
He further disclosed that Igbo leaders have concluded plans to write President Goodluck Jonathan on their worries in the framework for the proposed National
Conference, scheduled to kick off in no distant time.
“Ndigbo are worried that the conference may after all not yield the desired result if the conference is not majorly composed of ethnic nationalities other than labour unions, associated pressure groups and fraternities.
“The Igbo is also worried that a new and peoples constitution may elude Nigeria if President Jonathan accepts entirely the recommendations of Senator Femi Okuoromu Presidential Advisory Committee, PAC, on the national dialogue.
“Again the people are agitated that going by the report of the Okuoromu panel, the result of conference may have already been predetermined or is already been doctored by some forces.
“Ndigbo are however consoled that other ethnic nationalities and groups are in the same page with them in their demand for a renegotiated Nigeria”, he said.
Nwabueze disclosed that Ndigbo are mobilizing to write President Jonathan to express their expectations of the conference, adding that in no distant time their position will be with Mr. President.
He hinted that the Igbo expectation from the conference may not be far the position already adopted by the Patriots and other ethnic groups like the Afenifere, the middle belt, South-South Peoples Assembly and Nigeria ethnic nationalities forum among other groups.
