National Confab: Group Seeks Shift In 2015 Polls

Unfettered discussion of all issues relating to the existence of Nigeria at the National Conference remains the only way forward for the country. To enable the National Conference run its course, the General Election scheduled for 2015 must be put on hold.
The Lower Niger Congress (LNC), a group that professes to speak for the ethnic nationalities of the Lower Niger, stated this at a press briefing in Port Harcourt yesterday.
Commending President Goodluck Jonathan for the courage to organise a National Conference to discuss the impediments to the unity and progress of the country, LNC’s National Co-ordiantor, Barr. Tony Nnadi said it was better for today’s Nigeria to dissolve peacefully than to re-enact the 1967 Civil War scenario.
He asserted that the present contradictions in the polity bore the same imprints of what led to the Nigerian Civil War in which an estimated three million people died, stating that the legal instrument that forced together the peoples of Nigeria guaranteed their separation or renegotiation of the union after 100 years.
Nnadi said Nigeria elapsed on the midnight of December 31, 2013 and that any of its component ethnic nationalities reserves the right to take advantage of the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, 2007, to achieve self determination.
The LNC co-ordinator said that the fraud, oppression, marginalization, insecurity and other contradictions in the present forced union called Nigeria would lead to its disastrous disintegration if unfettered dialogue on the state of the union was not guaranteed now.
Nnadi said already, 12 Northern States had adopted the Sharia law while some of them are waging a relentless religious war on Nigeria having opted out of democracy and the Nigerian Constitution.
Nnadi said LNC was adopting the map and charter of the Ijaws to the National Conference Committee, which he said, the committee members refused to bring to public domain, as the basis of its federation.
He said LNC was interfacing with Prospective Middle-Belt and Yoruba Federations for Nigeria’s possible confederation, stating that each of the federating units is working out its constitution which would be adopted by referendum in the respective territories.

Donald Mike-Jaja