Stands for united Nigeria
By Taiye Odewale
Abuja
Amid separatist agitations in the country, the Senate yesterday called on President Muhammadu Buhari to forward the 2014 National Constitutional Conference report of it for necessary deliberations on recommended way out for the troubled Nigerian state.
This is even as the upper legislative chamber declared its support for a United Nigeria and the Presidency, describing secession agitations as suicidal.
Senate’s request for the 2014 Confab Reports followed submissions made by Senators during debate on a motion titled: “The need for National Unity and Peaceful Coexistence in Nigeria” and moved by Senator Mao Ohuanbunwa (PDP Abia North) for its adoption by the Senate.
It would be recalled that at the inception of this administration in May 2015, all the APC chieftains from President Muhammadu Buhari down to the federal lawmakers on the platform of the party were against looking at the direction of the report described by the President as a material for the archive, let alone deliberating on it for possible consideration and adoption.
However, during the debate on the need for national unity in the country, Senator Adamu Aliero (APC Kebbi Central) submitted on the need for consideration of the 2014 Confab reports as a way of solving problems bordering on the unity of the country.
Aliero, who was at the Confab as one of the delegates from Kebbi state, said almost all the critical problems bedeviling the workings of the Nigeria nation were dissected and useful recommendations made.
Senator Jonah Jang (PDP Plateau North) said based on realities in the country, the report was gradually being a “rejected stone that would have been the corner stone” as far as lasting solutions to Nigeria’s national problems was concerned.
“When the last administration convened the 2014 National Conference, the Seventh Senate said the conference should not have held, but they did not do anything about it until now that we are now beginning to talk about the unity of this country.
“So, I agree that the report should be tabled before the Senate and let us look at what Nigerians want by critically addressing the major issues”, he said.
