Nwabueze, who led other members of The
Patriots to submit their memorandum on
Transforming the Nation through a National
Conference, to President Jonathan, said though
he was eligible to contest, the president should
not contest the 2015 election.
Speaking to State House correspondents after the
meeting, Prof. Nwabueze while emphasizing that
this was his personal position and not that of The
Patriots, also urged the president to convene a
national conference before 2015.
Nwabueze, who said 2015 was not part of the
discussion, told journalists that his position had
not changed.
He said: “ That is not the purpose of our meeting
today, but that is my view and I still maintain that
view today. I still believe that the paramount
problem of this country is national
transformation, that you cannot combine national
transformation with contesting election.
The two are so different, because once you get
involved in election campaigns, you undermine
your authority to lead the nation for national
transformation and I said, if I were the president
of Nigeria, I would restrict myself to serving the
nation, in transforming this country, in creating a
new Nigeria, in creating a new society, that would
be my concern and I would go down in history
as a hero.
“So, if Mr President does that, he would become
an instant hero to this country, but it is for him to
choose. If I were him, I would choose to become
a hero to lead the country into transformation
and abandon the ambition of a second term. That
was what I said and I still stand by it. That is what
I would do if I were the president of the country,
but unfortunately, I’m not.”
On Jonathan’s eligibility to contest, he said: “That
is not an issue. Mr. President is eligible, nobody is
questioning his eligibility, the president is eligible,
what makes him ineligible? Nothing; he is eligible,
that is a personal decision for him to take.”
On what the meeting focused on, Nwabueze said:
“We talked about the transformation of this
country. What we said is that this country, a
situation in which we have found ourselves
today, is in dire need of transformation. Its entire
economy, the entire polity and the entire society
would need to be transformed.
We believe that the way to achieve that objective
is through a national conference, a national
conference of ethnic nationalities in this country.
We have done our own research and we are not
perfect but our own review showed that we have
in this country 389 ethnic nationalities.
We need to bring these nationalities around a
conference table to discuss how we are going to
live together as one country in peace, in stability,
in security as one country with the aim of
achieving national unity.”
Nwabueze said that on the position of the National
Assembly that there is no need for any national
sovereign conference when there is an elected
National Assembly in place..
Source:
http://gbadunaija..com/2013/08/proffessor-ben-nwabueze-against.html?m=1

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if GeJ dnt go 4 president, who will?

dats stupidity, wich hero ll he be if he doesnt contest nd do de transformation stuff nd start it....by de way wat we need is n.s.c nd not n.c