A member of the House of Representatives representing Ekiti North Federal Constituency I, Mr. Bimbo Daramola, has faulted those advocating the convocation of Sovereign National Conference to address the problems facing the country.

Daramola said this at a press conference in Ado-Ekiti on Thursday.

He said the call was unnecessary, saying those who would be part of such conference were not more patriotic than the 469 members of the National Assembly who were elected by the majority of Nigerians.

He described the agitation for the convocation of the conference as an affront on the Nigerian Constitution and usurpation of the powers of the National Assembly.

Daramola advised the advocates of the SNC to shelve the idea, saying the nation did not need SNC to tar its roads, to improve health facilities and fix other problems.

He said, “We don’t need any SNC because Nigerians have already elected members of the National Assembly to represent their interest.

“Nigeria cannot afford to set up an unconstitutional parallel body to rival the National Assembly. What we need in Nigeria is how to present an equitable and justifiable Nigeria, where everybody could have a sense of belonging.

“We don’t need any SNC to know that we should tar the roads, give employments to our youths and give stable power supply for more electricity generation for industrial development in our country; so there is nothing the SNC members would want to discuss that the NASS cannot discuss.”

He urged the FG to tackle the problem of youth unemployment, saying having too many youths roaming the streets was dangerous to the nation.

The lawmaker also faulted the mobile sale of kerosene by the Nigeria National Petroleum Corporation, saying those in rural communities did not benefit from this because the trucks were limited to urban centres.

He advised the NNPC to look for a way to make the commodity available to every Nigeria irrespective of where they reside.

Daramola added that the Federal Government had spent N493bn on road construction between 1999 and 2007. He said despite this huge amount of money, more than 98,000 persons lost their lives in road accidents due to the deplorable condition of the roads across the country.

“Nigeria cannot afford to set up an unconstitutional parallel body to rival the National Assembly. What we need in Nigeria is how to present an equitable and justifiable Nigeria, where everybody could have a sense of belonging.

alex_101:

I have been saying it that these yorobos and their ACN are not really interested in SNC. The so called "true federalism" that ACN and most Yorubas have been calling for is just mere ranting,,,all they really meant was more OIL money to be shared to the states. Anybody with 1/100th of human brain ought to know by now that you can never have "true federalism" without a SNC where important and pressing issues will be discussed.

The yorubos and their dirty stinking ewusa/fulani masters will never leave nigeria, the OIL money is just to sweet to let go. The only way to get rid of these parasites is through a full scale war . How can this demented fool called Bimbo Daramola not see the need for SNC, especially after the violence that ensued in the north after the april presidential election? The yorubas lost more of their sons and daughters in that violence than any other southern group . I strongly believe that the yorobos are closet advocate and supporters of the north's "born to rule" ideology, mainly due to fear and cowardice .

Finally, my message to all these so called minorities in the SS, especially those in the defunct eastern region, I greet una good morning. Your suffering have just taking a new phase. You clowns can continue crying "Igbo domination" while the yorubas and their ewusa/fulani slave masters continue to pillage your ancestral land,,,talk about chasing shadows. Your only way to freedom is a full scale war and you fools are on your own. Again good morning and goodluck in the dungeon called "one nigeria", for it will be like fanning the devil's arse in hell .

Ileke-IdI:

There are two kinds of threads you dont spam on NL

1. Anything that has to do with Ekit1

2. Any threads created by Ileke-Idi.

@POst

Make I laugh too o.

PointB:

Nigeria doesn’t need SNC – Rep
By Femi Makinde, Ado-Ekiti
http://www.punchontheweb.com/Articl.aspx?theartic=Art20110819191154

9ja voice:

my friend dont ever be ready untill sw peoplr first got to the street and we confirm their seriousnes.
the we shall join with style. do it ahead of them ,you will get betrayal in return

High_Chief:

^^^Part of what the guy said is true, especially the kind of politics his people play. Example abound in the sale of Abiola to the Northerners by some of their leaders, Tinubu also sold his own to Tambuwal. Secondly, he also has a point with the way the North view them, they are just using them to achieve their political goals. These people will suffer seriously should Nigeria break up, there will be serious crisis in the SW.

But we do not want Federalism, what we need is division of the country, we are not the same people. Punto

henry101:

Where is Gbawe, the number one ACN tori master.

Jonathan rules out national conference
By Everest Amaefule
Wednesday, 20 Oct 2010
 


President Goodluck Jonathan has rejected calls for the convocation of a Sovereign National Conference.

This is contrary to the calls by some groups and individuals that an SNC will give ethnic nationalities the opportunity to choose how to relate or associate with one another.

Jonathan, who spoke at the Dialogue with the President at the 16th Nigerian Economic Summit in Abuja on Tuesday, said the nation had gone beyond the call for the SNC and should be concerned about how to build a prosperous country.

The President also blamed kidnapping on government’s failure to address the problem when it was evolving.

He also stated that corruption was prevalent in the private sector as it had been in the public sector, adding that what should be done to check the menace was to strengthen law enforcement agencies.

According to the President, the constitution has already prescribed how the fundamental law can be changed; adding that any attempt to change the law by any other method would be an illegality.

The President said, “We have the 1999 Constitution which clearly prescribes how the constitution can be changed. We have the National Assembly that makes laws for the nation.

“Sometimes we get carried away by some jargons. It is not the number of conferences that we hold that can solve our problems. The countries that we cite as examples in development, it is not conference that solved their problems.

“We have gone beyond asking how ethnic groups can live together. We will not allow history to hold us down. It was in 1914 that the Southern and Northern Protectorates were amalgamated. In four years now, we shall be celebrating 100 years of our existence as a nation. So we have gone beyond the agitation for Sovereign National Conference.”

The President said the challenges of car bombs and kidnapping had not always been with the country but added that when the government failed to tackle challenges that it faced, they could grow into larger proportions.

Tracing kidnapping to the Kaigama declaration of 1998, Jonathan said the challenge had been laid to rest through the amnesty programme of the Federal Government, adding that what the nation was now experiencing was the commercialisation of the menace.

He said, “Security is a challenge to any government. Before this time, we never had kidnapping in Nigeria. We never had the problem of car bomb in Nigeria.

“The problem of kidnapping we have now is not agitation. The first major kidnapping we had was in 2006 when I was a deputy governor.

“If anything happens and the government does not handle it on time, selfish people exploit it for commercial purposes. What is happening now is commercial. People are doing it to make money.

On the widespread illiteracy in the country, Jonathan said the Federal Government could not force the states to implement free and compulsory education as enshrined in the Universal Basic Education programme.

Also at the event, a former Chief Justice of Nigeria, Justice Alfa Belgore, called for the decentralisation of election petition tribunals for the quick dispensation of justice.

He said that rather than constituting a panel of five judges to hear all election petitions in a state, a judge should be assigned to hear petitions in each federal constituency, the News Agency of Nigeria reports.

He said that the delay in the determination of election petitions was caused by the large volume of work for the panel of judges constituted to hear all petitions emanating from elections at state level.

The former CJN said that election petitions should be heard at the constituency level by a judge within a short time frame to be specified by the Electoral Act.

alex_101:

Hmmm ngatis are running away from this thread because  their smelly nyashes have been exposed. They don't want SNC but they want free OIL money .

Bunch of thieves!,,,OLE,,,kparawo .

htajz:

why are yorubas soo dumb gosh na so dey go winchi winchi everybody for this country even wen na them poverty hit pass.

High_Chief:

^^^Part of what the guy said is true, especially the kind of politics his people play. Example abound in the sale of Abiola to the Northerners by some of their leaders, Tinubu also sold his own to Tambuwal. Secondly, he also has a point with the way the North view them, they are just using them to achieve their political goals. These people will suffer seriously should Nigeria break up, there will be serious crisis in the SW.

But we do not want Federalism, what we need is division of the country, we are not the same people. Punto

PointB:


lol. the bolded can be interpreted as this: My name is Asiwaju Party (ACN) of Nigeria, make me an offer I cannot refuse!   



@Gbawe,
continue following me up and down like a follower on twitter. All your attempt to malign me will come to naught. The tread we are discussing here was a report by Punch Newspaper. I did not edit it in anyway, it is not my duty to report what GEJ said or did not say in 2010 while on campaign train. The bottomline of this tread is that an Ekiti Rep categorically said SNC is 'unconstitutional'; ACN was not mentioned in the report nor in my initial post. But due to your unconscionable passionate ambition to derail any post of mine, you have come up with this tongue in the cheek conspiracy theory - that this post is anti-SW.  And has also successfully link the Rep to ACN - wonderful.

Seriously, are you reasoning with your anus? Why is the Rep guy a rep? To megaphone the voice of the executive or to represent the voice of his people? I have an idea, the guy is simply one of those rubber stamp (now that you have confirmed it) ACN reps running amok at the nationally assembly with no idea of their own, nor of ACN's ideology, nor interest of their people at heart. Otherwise, regardless of what GEJ says, does he not have a clear idea of the need of his own people? Is it not his job and duty to articulate such. What kind of people do we have as Reps these days (yes from SW, since that appeals to you ethic bigotry)? A dime a dozen?

Gbawe, you fall my hand seriously here, one expect much more reasonable position from you. But your hyper-inflated pea-sized brain, sparsely populated with gray matter will rather tether on the familiar position of ethnic championship, and usual ACN a$$ licking act to attack to messenger, ignoring the message. I may be clown, but it will be an insult to stewpid people to call you stewpid, you are worse than that.

Have my middle-finger for all I care (of cos I need to interprete that for you - 4q!). Go get a life or get laid, quit following me around like a pest; by the way I am straight!

Gbawe:

Silly dullard. If you are not a bigot why only talk about the SW and the ACN all the time ? SS, SE, NE NW et al don't exist anymore? Or is that , to you, nothing newsworthy happens in those region and you only ever get "excited" at the mention of "Yoruba" and "ACN"? Anyway , I suppose the folks of the SW should be flattered. They must be doing something right for the level of attention you and others focus on them.

If you look around Nairaland you will not see balanced posters focusing obdurately on one region and one group of people as if that is all Nigeria consist of. It becomes even more comical when your arguments are always half-backed , revisionist and easily debunked . Your agenda of mischief is crystal clear. it is rare to see you start a thread or say two words that does not involve a Yoruba person or the ACN. Keep wasting your time .

metodman:

We do not need SNC cos Mr Daramola is presently a REP but wats funny is that the day he is no more a REP, he would start advocating for SNC, Bunch of Selfish pple