Omehia Advocates Sovereign National Confab

As reactions continue
to trail the proposed National Conference, former Governorship candidate of the All Progressives Grand Alliance in the 2011 polls in Rivers State, Celestine Omehia has opted for a sovereign national conference which findings would not be subject to ratification by the National Assembly.
Sir Celestine Omehia who spoke to Airport Correspondents on Saturday said since both the National Assembly and the national conference have different mandates, the conference should be made a sovereign one.
“The conference should be made sovereign so that every ethnic group will have the opportunity to be heard in contributing to how the country will be governed, and I think that since the people called for it, it is an opportunity for both minority and majority groups to make inputs, it is not an issue for National Assembly”, he said.
He opined that those who earlier called for the conference did not know what they were calling for because all groups interests must be reflected otherwise they could go to court to seek the protection of their right.
According to him, a plebiscite should rather be adopted to agree on issues as all groups need to make contributions on how the resources will be distributed, noting that the conference is beyond the interest of a few.
President Jonathan never wanted the conference at the first instance because he knows the implication but people persisted on the call especially those that wanted to score small political point but it is an avenue for the marginalized to speak out and their interest protected”, he declared.