Nationwide leaders of thought beneath the umbrella of The Patriots, led by Chief Emeka Anyaoku, former secretary basic of the Commonwealth of Nations, yesterday gave extra perception on their current go to to President Bola Tinubu.
The group stated the rising incidents of terrorism, banditry, cattle rustling, separatist agitations and kidnappings are signs of a long-standing political mistrust and lack of nationwide cohesion for which can not enable financial insurance policies or reforms yield any optimistic outcomes.
Normal secretary of The Patriots, Olawale Okunniyi, who was secretary to the delegation that met with Tinubu, stated it was on this foundation that the group suggested the president to instantly promote a nationwide dialogue for a Nigerian democratic folks’s structure that can take inputs from the 1960 and 1963 constitutions in addition to suggestions of all earlier Constitutional conferences of Nigeria.
Recall that the group had visited Tinubu final Friday visited President Bola Ahmed Tinubu on the State Home, Abuja to weigh in on the worrisome state of Nigeria foisted by rising instability.
In an announcement signed by Okunniyi yesterday, the group stated “Whereas briefing the Press after the assembly with the President, which was attended by the Vice President, Secretary to the Federal Authorities, Chief of Workers to the President, Nationwide Safety Adviser and Minister for Data, the chief of the delegation, Chief Anyaoku, the Chairman of the Patriots, acknowledged that the interplay with the President was primarily centered on the necessity to discover a system of governance that may allow the nation to sort out extra successfully the intense challenges dealing with it, the challenges of insecurity, underperforming economic system stoking large poverty and starvation, dilapidated infrastructures of well being and training companies and rising menace to the unity of the nation.”
The assertion added, “The workforce stated Nigerian Stakeholders, who participated within the Nationwide Colloquium (Dialogue) organised by the Patriots in March, 2024 are massively desirous of a folks’s democratic structure for the nation and due to this fact need authorities to instantly provoke and drive the method of a basic reform of the governance system of the nation, by a significant nationwide constitutional dialogue to be consummated by an elected Nationwide Constituent Meeting in fostering nationwide consensus and concord for Nigeria.
“The Delegation acknowledged additional that the Patriots are of the thought of view that the pervasive insecurity in Nigeria and its twin nationwide instability have been impeding the financial productiveness and prosperity of Nigeria and due to this fact require pressing intervention to return the nation to the trail of progress and stability, because the rising incidents of Terrorism, Banditry, Cattle Rustling, Separatist Agitations and Kidnappings are all signs of a long-standing political mistrust and nationwide incohesion of a rustic divided in opposition to itself, the place no financial insurance policies or reforms can yield any optimistic outcomes.
“The Leaders, to this finish, stated that the Patriots additionally suggested President Tinubu to instantly promote a nationwide dialogue for the manufacturing of a Nigerian democratic folks’s structure that can take into consideration the 1960 and 1963 constitutions and the suggestions of all earlier Constitutional conferences of Nigeria in order to carry all Nigerians again to the identical web page of patriotism that may unleash the collective need of Nigerians to defend the peace and stability of the nation, whereas encouraging farmers to return to their farmlands with out the worry of being attacked by terrorists, bandits or kidnappers for elevated agricultural productiveness within the nation.
“Lastly, to douse the present pressure within the nation ensuing from the continuing nationwide Starvation protests, the delegation urged the President to urgently direct the federal government nationwide to instantly take the initiative of organising dialogue with leaders of the Protests on their calls for. Equally, the Patriots requested the President to direct regulation enforcement brokers to not use deadly weapons within the administration of the civil protests with the intention to minimise casualties and forestall the escalation of the disaster.”
The members of the Patriots Delegation that met with Tinubu and his cupboard on the Presidential Villa, Abuja are: Chief Emeka Anyaoku (Chief of the Delegation); South East (Senator Ben Obi; Chief Simon Okeke)
The North Central delegation had Madam Pauline Tallen; Dr Pogu Bitrus; HE Labaran Maku; Barr Abubakar Azara
For North West it was Senator Shehu Sanni;
Alhaji Shettima Yerima; Rear Admiral Ferguson Bobai
The South South delegation comprised,
Chief Kanu Agabi, SAN; Prof Mike Ozekhome, SAN; Woman Ann Kio Briggs
North East had HE Boni Haruna and Dr Abdujalilil Tafawa Balewa; whereas South West
had Chief Olusegun Osoba and Prof Anthony Kila.
