Northern Leaders Reject Jonathan’s Confab Report, Call for Fresh Conference
Former President, Dr Goodluck Jonathan handing over reports of the 2014 National Conference to President Muhammadu Buhari
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 16TH (URHOBOTODAY)-Prominent Northern leaders, Tuesday, rejected the implementation of the 2014 report of the National Conference convoked by former President Goodluck Jonathan, saying that it did not address the key issues affecting them.
In its place, the northern leaders are asking President Muhammadu Buhari to convene a fresh conference that would take into cognisance the challenges facing them and proffer solutions to them.
The northern leaders who are mostly former political office holders under the aegis of Northern Reawakening Forum (NRF) and headed by a former member of the House of Representatives, Mohammed Kumalia, said it would be wrong for Buhari to implement the report of the conference called by the former leader.
The group, which met in Abuja on Tuesday, issued a strong view on the last conference, and asked for the dumping of the report in the interest of Nigeria.
With Due respect, that would be a total waste of the money used in conducting the first confab. Have you forgotten those confab members were paid 12million per month amongst other expenses wjile the last confab lasted?. Why would we want to waste that kind of money?