lygn19: Eighty three-year old Ben Nwabueze has described his
nomination to the 13-member national conference committee
by President Goodluck Jonathan as inappropriate, stating that
the appointment should be for a younger and healthier person.
“It is an appointment for a younger person, not for an old man
of 83 years afflicted by ill-health,” the elder statesman said
in a statement signed by him and distributed on Thursday.
According to him, the President should have requested the
Patriots to nominate someone to the committee rather than
asking him who is battling with a terminal illness at a very old
age to come be part of the committee.
Prof. Nwabueze who leads the Patriots-a socio-political
association of elderly Nigerians-claimed that the group got a
hint of the planned conference during a meeting with
President Jonathan in July and expected him to ask the group
for someone to be on the committee.
Expressing his displeasure with the nomination, the
octogenarian said “I never expected to be appointed chairman
or member of the Committee, and would, quite frankly, have
considered such an appointment inappropriate in the
circumstances.”
“The Patriots would be asked to nominate a member to the
Committee.”
The Patriots have long been in the vanguard of those calling
for the convocation of a national conference.
Prof Nwabueze, who was announced in the committee list on
October 1 was however absent at the inauguration of the
committee on the 7th of October. He was absent on health
grounds and reportedly nominated Mr. Asemota to represent
him on the committee.
In what however appears a snub of the President’s offer, ailing
Mr. Nwabueze made his way back to Nigeria on October 12 to
attend the Anambra Literary Creativity Festival at Awka.
According to him, he had to “cut short my stay in London for
medicals and returned to Nigeria on Saturday 12 October,
2013 to keep a long-standing commitment to chair the
Anambra Literary Creativity Festival at Awka on 15 October.”
“It may be necessary for me, after my Awka engagement, to
go back to London to continue my medicals,” he added.
He further explained that his medical care and early
appointment with his oncologist in London had been
compromised a great deal due to a series of postponement of
an earlier meeting with the President.
“It is not generally known to people that I have been fighting
prostrate cancer for some years now, and have been kept
going by consultations from time to time with, and treatment
by a Consultant Oncologist at Charing Cross Hospital, London,”
he said.
“My appointment with the Consultant Oncologist had been
shifted many times because of several postponements in the
dates of The Patriots meeting with President Goodluck
Jonathan and the National Summit at Uyo, both of which
eventually took place on August 29 and September 3 and 4
respectively, leaving me free at last to travel to London on
September 8 for my medical appointments.”
Nonetheless, the elder statesman still offered the Patriots
service to assist with the planned national conference, stating
that he was already working with 13 prominent lawyers in
Nigeria to draft a new people’s constitution.
This people’s constitution will soon be presented to the
Presidency and the National Assembly as a working paper for
the National Conference proper after it is deliberated at a
soon to be re-convened patriot’s summit in Uyo, he said.
“This is the area in which I think my contribution to the work
of the conference would be particularly useful, and I do not
see this as in any way conflicting with the terms of reference
of the Presidential Committee, although they (i.e. the Terms of
Reference) contain a somewhat vaguely worded item, to wit,
“to advise government on legal procedures and options for
integrating decisions and outcomes of the national dialogue/
conference into the constitution and laws of the nation,” he
said...
This is the real story, th OP, just edited the other one to ridicule GEJ

lygn19: Eighty three-year old Ben Nwabueze has described his
nomination to the 13-member national conference committee
by President Goodluck Jonathan as inappropriate, stating that
the appointment should be for a younger and healthier person.
“It is an appointment for a younger person, not for an old man
of 83 years afflicted by ill-health,” the elder statesman said
in a statement signed by him and distributed on Thursday.
According to him, the President should have requested the
Patriots to nominate someone to the committee rather than
asking him who is battling with a terminal illness at a very old
age to come be part of the committee.
Prof. Nwabueze who leads the Patriots-a socio-political
association of elderly Nigerians-claimed that the group got a
hint of the planned conference during a meeting with
President Jonathan in July and expected him to ask the group
for someone to be on the committee.
Expressing his displeasure with the nomination, the
octogenarian said “I never expected to be appointed chairman
or member of the Committee, and would, quite frankly, have
considered such an appointment inappropriate in the
circumstances.”
“The Patriots would be asked to nominate a member to the
Committee.”
The Patriots have long been in the vanguard of those calling
for the convocation of a national conference.
Prof Nwabueze, who was announced in the committee list on
October 1 was however absent at the inauguration of the
committee on the 7th of October. He was absent on health
grounds and reportedly nominated Mr. Asemota to represent
him on the committee.
In what however appears a snub of the President’s offer, ailing
Mr. Nwabueze made his way back to Nigeria on October 12 to
attend the Anambra Literary Creativity Festival at Awka.
According to him, he had to “cut short my stay in London for
medicals and returned to Nigeria on Saturday 12 October,
2013 to keep a long-standing commitment to chair the
Anambra Literary Creativity Festival at Awka on 15 October.”
“It may be necessary for me, after my Awka engagement, to
go back to London to continue my medicals,” he added.
He further explained that his medical care and early
appointment with his oncologist in London had been
compromised a great deal due to a series of postponement of
an earlier meeting with the President.
“It is not generally known to people that I have been fighting
prostrate cancer for some years now, and have been kept
going by consultations from time to time with, and treatment
by a Consultant Oncologist at Charing Cross Hospital, London,”
he said.
“My appointment with the Consultant Oncologist had been
shifted many times because of several postponements in the
dates of The Patriots meeting with President Goodluck
Jonathan and the National Summit at Uyo, both of which
eventually took place on August 29 and September 3 and 4
respectively, leaving me free at last to travel to London on
September 8 for my medical appointments.”
Nonetheless, the elder statesman still offered the Patriots
service to assist with the planned national conference, stating
that he was already working with 13 prominent lawyers in
Nigeria to draft a new people’s constitution.
This people’s constitution will soon be presented to the
Presidency and the National Assembly as a working paper for
the National Conference proper after it is deliberated at a
soon to be re-convened patriot’s summit in Uyo, he said.
“This is the area in which I think my contribution to the work
of the conference would be particularly useful, and I do not
see this as in any way conflicting with the terms of reference
of the Presidential Committee, although they (i.e. the Terms of
Reference) contain a somewhat vaguely worded item, to wit,
“to advise government on legal procedures and options for
integrating decisions and outcomes of the national dialogue/
conference into the constitution and laws of the nation,” he
said...
This is the real story, th OP, just edited the other one to ridicule GEJ

theshadyexpress:
the op is full of crap

seedord247:


why did you quote that long sh1t.. Are you suffering from malaria?

mugumugu: nwabuuuueze, omo nna ti o nko fuji.
dis one na fuji house of commotion.

over to u my nna brothers and aro ibos.
make I go drink palm wine with okorowanta and chikodi chukwumerije.

johntousin: Eighty three-year old Ben Nwabueze has described his nomination to the 13-member national conference committee by President Goodluck Jonathan as inappropriate, stating that the appointment should be for a younger and healthier person.

“It is an appointment for a younger person, not for an old man of 83 years afflicted by ill-health,” the elder statesman said in a statement signed by him and distributed on Thursday.

According to him, the President should have requested the Patriots to nominate someone to the committee rather than asking him who is battling with a terminal illness at a very old age to come be part of the committee.

Prof. Nwabueze who leads the Patriots-a socio-political association of elderly Nigerians-claimed that the group got a hint of the planned conference during a meeting with President Jonathan in July and expected him to ask the group for someone to be on the committee.

Expressing his displeasure with the nomination, the octogenarian said “I never expected to be appointed............

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maclatunji: It is not every Nigerian that is desperate for national "assignment".

Ich_el: Who is nwabueze plz

Ich_el: Who is nwabueze plz

excell12go: If no b sey I respect dis man because of hn age, I for talk sey he dey crase.
He should av politely rejected the nomination rather than spew this...*Yorubas don't insult elders*

presher: am i the first to read this trash