Some delegates at the just concluded national
conference have formed a major pressure group with
the aim of pushing for the implementation of the
decisions reached at the conference.The group,
which was known as “National Consensus Initiative”,
was inaugurated few hours before President
Goodluck Jonathan declared the conference closed in
Abuja on Thursday.Members of the group vowed to
ensure that the report of the conference, which was
submitted to the President was fully
implemented.The Interim Coordinator of the group,
Mr. Remi Olatubora, who spoke with journalists after
the inaugural meeting of the group’s Steering
Committee, expressed worry that recommendations
and reports of such conferences in the past were
not implemented.He disclosed that the group would
work together as advocacy group towards ensuring
that “decisions of the conference are not left in the
shelf to gather dust in the manner in which the
reports of earlier conferences were treated.”He
added that the desire to come together in a group
was informed by common desire of most of the
delegates that all relevant governmental organs and
agencies implement the decisions of the
conference.Members if the group, which cut across
the six geo-political zones, were made up of
professionals drawn from the academia, law, Civil
Society Organisations, Religious bodies, Nigerian
Union of Journalist among others.Olatunbora, said
the mission of the group was to engage with issues
flowing from the confab, as independent input into
the process of consolidating the gains of Nigeria’s
centenary, and it’s reconstruction into a responsible,
accountable, and egalitarian society.Other reasons
according to him was “To campaign vigorously for
gender mainstreaming and inter-generational
justice as dedicated by the requirement of 21
century politics.“To develop a framework for the
emergence of an alumni of the confab as the
broadest convergence of Pan-Nigerian constituent
group.“To act as a connecting rod between our group
and the primary as well as secondary stakeholders in
the political sustainability of Nigeria project.”

Culled from Punch.

I think its time for every Nigerian that stands for change to join this movement & ensure we get the desired outcome from this. Enough of the traditional "siddon look" characteristic of the average Nigerian from time past.