PRONACO Tasks Nigerian Leaders to Rise above Political Partisanship
LAGOS FEBRUARY 12TH (URHOBOTODAY)-Amidst growing political tension occasioned by the 2015 general elections in Nigeria, the Pro National Conference Organisation, PRONACO on Wednesday in Lagos tasked leaders of conscience in the country to immediately rise above political partisanship and give a more profound direction to the country
The national political movement, In its periodic state of the nation intervention said it was not a surprise that the country’s democracy is currently grinding to a halt with desperate and panicky acts of the political class all over the nation.
Speaking through its spokesperson, Che Olawale Okunniyi, a veteran political activist, PRONACO said by the framework of the subsisting 1999 constitution and its attendant amendments, it will be impossible for any government in Nigeria to meet the democratic expectation of the Nigerian people;
“hence the economic failures of successive governments and the present electoral ‘war’ in the country as the current civil rule from its outset in 1999 has been designed constitutionally to flop” PRONACO said
Okunniyi, a front line delegate of the civil society movement to the 2014 National Confab, however lamented the inability of the political class to correct the inherent anomalies in the constitutional structure of the current democracy which according to the group sustained the explosive politics breeding the current electoral tension in the land
“Politically, Nigeria is presently sitting on a keg of gun powder, and may have just postponed the doomsday with the recent extension of the forthcoming elections by 6 weeks,. The fact is that the constitutional structure of Nigeria is deeply self contradictory to democratic survival
Nigeria’s governance and electoral structure is endemically warped and lopsided as it has not been designed by the military to sustain democracy but to blackmail and compromise it for the self serving agenda of the exiting military. PRONACO asserted
He also wondered why the political class, for hat he called narrow gains, has made it so difficult for the country to correct its dangerous polity with all the humongous economic crisis and horrendous bloodletting and killings witnessed under the current ‘wrongheaded’ democratic dispensation
“The ruling class may have to take responsibility for the imminent failure of civil rule in the country; now that it seems almost likely that the prediction of the united states in 2005 about Nigeria’s disintegration in 2015 now seems most likely to come to pass in spite of all the warnings and great interventions of leaders of conscience in movements like PRONACO, Project Nigeria , Patriots etc these self serving ruling class have chosen to be deaf to the ominous signs ahead”
Finally, Okunniyi, who is also the Secretary General of Project Nigeria otherwise known as Nigeria Consensus Group jointly led by Elder statesmen; Prof Ben Nwabueze and Alhaji Maitama Sule however hinted that the leaders of the movement will meet soon to assess the state of the nation and take a firm decision on the way forward for Nigeria
