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| l Stand For National Conference: a letter to APC by jdilight(m): 9:00am On Oct 25, 2013 |
In a country where every ethnic group is on each others jaw. Every region fighting for her selfish gain. The elders tutoring the children to be at enemity with his country men just for the may fact that they don't speak same language. This country has no values, it has no vision and no mission, then where is she heading to? This nation has to sit together and make a sketch of where she is headed, even if we never implement it. This is a call to a national conference. Nigerian are so unpatriotic to term a national conference political. What is not political, every affair is political: bedroom affairs, educational affairs, religious affairs etc. The big question is how wide spread will the positive impact of a political affair affect a greater number, it certainly will not impact positively on all. A national conference should address, political, religious, economical, educational, ethnic issues. These issues on any weighting balance unbalances the entity nigeria. Why then should we not address it now. Enough of selfish politics, those saying no to national conference should swallow there selfishness, come out and point a way forward for this country. A new party or government cannot and l repeat, cannot take this nation to the promise land. Because the mental configuration of our leaders and yet to be leaders has been poisoned with ethnic and religious sentiments. A national conference should be more of ideology than a how to recipe. A how to do recipe is too regid for a dynamic entity. We need to be known for something and now is the time to create that ideology. This country needs a vision, mission and value. I STAND FOR NATIONAL CONFERENCE. |
| Re: l Stand For National Conference: a letter to APC by Emperor007: 9:33am On Oct 25, 2013 |
National Conference is long over due, and Nigerians are ready for it because they've been asking for it. It's only the evil politicians that have been making life difficult for 98.5% percent of Nigerians, that are kicking against it, for the status quo to continue. Ignore them, they wouldn't stop the wishes of majority this time. They can't continue to drag everybody backwards. . |
| Re: l Stand For National Conference: a letter to APC by jdilight(m): 9:47am On Oct 25, 2013 |
National conference is a must in the face of these precarious nation, we cannot stand and watch what our fathers built with their blood as mortar and bones as brinks crumble on the weight of tribal and religious hatred |
| Re: l Stand For National Conference: a letter to APC by wirinet(m): 10:03am On Oct 25, 2013 |
Emperor_007: National Conference is long over due, and Nigerians are ready for it because they've been asking for it. Please tell me the structure of this National Conference, that will magically solve all Nigeria's problems. Who are going to do the debates? The regions, states, tribes or sub tribes, political parties, associations, etc. How will the debaters be picked? Where will be the venue(s)? What will be the legal status of the debates? How will the debates become law? Going through the national, states assembles and the president or through a referendum? Remember, the nigerian constitution makes no provision for referendums. Then how will the debates lead to nigerian obeying the laws? Will the debates stop stealing of federal, states, local governments, associations funds? Will the debates make nigerians compassionate on their neighbours and even brothers? Will debates stop greed, get rich quick syndrome, lawlessness and other vanity induced vices afflicting nigerians? My take on the socalled magical conference is that, it will just be anarchy. Building a just and egalitarian society is a gradual and slow evolutionary process. The most important factor is the level of spiritual (not religious) development of the people, where justice fairness and equity is engraved in the peoples heart. |
| Re: l Stand For National Conference: a letter to APC by jdilight(m): 10:17am On Oct 25, 2013 |
@ wirinet: A national conference should point a direction for the country, not necessarily to address corruption. lt should point at a value, what is this nation known for that every tribe can key into. Corruption is a by product of visionlessness. |
| Re: l Stand For National Conference: a letter to APC by wirinet(m): 10:39am On Oct 25, 2013 |
jdilight: @ wirinet: A national conference should point a direction for the country, not necessarily to address corruption. A National Conference cannot point the direction for any country. What nigerian national conference would be all about will be how to distribute power and resources - nothing more. And i know the greed and the only my interest attitudes of the various tribes would lead to lots of acrimony and distrust. I as an architect believes in studying case studies to ensure success of projects, now tell me where the type of National Conference you are advocating for had succeeded, so we would study how it will work. Although i an not a fan of the present constitution, it is the only tool we have. So it will be sensible to use that as a starting point. We should make sure we elect legislators that can propagate our concerns and change the constitution one section at a time. The main issues with the nigerian constitution is resource control, state and local government autonomy and devolution of powers from the federal to the states. And proper separation of powers between the executive, legislator and judiciary, both at federal and state level. But the most important issue is spiritual and moral development to do what is right. A conference would not stop an ijebu from discriminating against an egba or from aruchukwu discriminating again anioma. 1 Like |
| Re: l Stand For National Conference: a letter to APC by jdilight(m): 9:08am On Oct 26, 2013 |
Thatz just an assumption, let get to the dialogue table first. The national conference should address the issue of tribal intorerance by point the nation to a direction, creation of value and mission for the country beside other issues. those that believe the have solution to our problems will come out and air their views. 2 good heads are better than 1 |
| Re: l Stand For National Conference: a letter to APC by wirinet(m): 9:34am On Oct 27, 2013 |
jdilight: Thatz just an assumption, let get to the dialogue table first. The national conference should address the issue of tribal intorerance by point the nation to a direction, creation of value and mission for the country beside other issues. You have not responded to any of my questions regarding this dialogue. Where will this dialogue table be situated, and how many tables are there going to be? Who are the participants going to be and how are they going to be chosen. Remember Nigeria has over 250 ethnic groupings. How will a National Conference address tribal or racial intolerance? Can you legislate tolerance? Even FIFA that has tough legislations against racism still have huge problems in naturally racist countries. A national conference pointing the direction, mission and values for the whole is a recipe for disaster and that is exactly what we are trying to avoid. We are yearning for a federation where each unit can determine its own direction, mission and values using its own resources. |
| Re: l Stand For National Conference: a letter to APC by enyice(m): 10:08am On Oct 27, 2013 |
wirinet: @ wirinet, We cant continue like this, we must do everything we can to make this country work. We must keep experimenting we most definitely must make nigeria work. There's never any harm in trying, limit the way you compare nigeria to other countries, infact, nigeria is a case study of its own. While every little maltreatment may cause revolution in the middle-east or north africa, the complex nature of nigeria may not make that happen here despite the extreme difficulties we encounter here. Its only a dialogue or conference, what are you scared of? A committee has been constituted by the president to determine the nomenclature of the national conference, am sure they'll address all your concerns but you should try as much as you can to encourage it. |
| Re: l Stand For National Conference: a letter to APC by wirinet(m): 12:25pm On Oct 27, 2013 |
enyice: Yes, I agree we cannot continue this way. We are heading for disaster. Yes we must do all we can to make this country work. A break up would have catastrophic consequecies. Look at countries that broke up recently like yugoslavia and sudan, they are yet to settle. Then how many parts are we going to break up into? But I disagree that we should keep experimenting. We cannot experiment forever. We should learn to move from experimentation to actualization. We had experimemted palimentary system - it fail. We are experimenting presidential - it is failing. We had excperimented with most economic models profered by IMF and world bank - they all failed. We have tried socialism and capitalism - failure. So should we not sit back and look at ourselves, that the problem might be us and not the systems. No system can work for greedy, intolerant, unjust and selfish society. The reason an arab style revolution cannot happen in black africa is because of tribalism - we protect our own irrespective of crime commited. our sense of right and wrong is skewed by religious, tribal, political and other considerations. I am not scared of anything. The problem is no body had been able to explain what the dialogue entails. Who is dialoguing with who? How can a dialogue be held with and existing constitution and government. The only way I see the type of dialoguing people are clamouring happen is if a military coup takes place and the coupists suspends the constitution. Then they can constitute another body to engage in dialogue whether ethnic or other criteria, to rewrite a new constitution and then enact decrees that would guide the conference. Any other thing cannot stand judicial scrutiny. And besides the issues at stake are rather simple - Autonomy, resource control and more powers to the federating units. We don't need a conference to know what we want. Also do not forget, what the igbo elites want is different from what the ordinary igbo man in the street want. Same for the hausa, fulanis and other northerners. The ordinary hausa farmer or cattle rearer care less about oil. But the northern elite are ready to war to retain control of oil blocks. so who would represent the interests of the tribes - the elites or the ordinary citizens. |
| Re: l Stand For National Conference: a letter to APC by jdilight(m): 12:53pm On Oct 27, 2013 |
people that will be at the conference will be national, tribal statemen. Remember we are in the information age, every discussion will be aired. All nigerians will see and hear what will be discussed at the conference. lf you believe not enough issue will be discussed, take the issues you think need attention to your representative. we have never had a national conference before. what our leaders saw yesterday and cried for a national conference has not been dealt with, so why kick against it now. That solution they had then let them bring it to the public and if it doesnt work we all can go our separate ways with the conviction, we tried our possible best. lets see the intelligence of nigerians tested. but we cannot fold our hands and expect a change to happen. Bros, forget military. that entity has done no country any good, they have gone for good. |
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