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Igbos Should Forget The Presidency Come 2015. Check Out Why! by KINGwax(m): 9:55am On Apr 17, 2012
Don't kill me yet, though i knw, but i didn't say so. He did!>>
Igbos should
forget 2015
presidency –
Nwabueze.
CONSTITUTIONAL
lawyer, Professor
Ben Nwabueze has
been in the
forefront in the
agitation for a
national conference
to address the
multifarious
problems facing the
country. In this
interview,
Nwabueze, who is
also the convener
of Project Nigeria
re-echoed the call
for a national
conference just as
he asserts the
impracticability of
the South East
region producing
the president come
2015 owing to the
current power
sharing formula.
Excerpts:
Many Nigerians
agree that it is time
to reclaim Nigeria
but what are the
steps to be taken
before this can be
achieved?
In Project Nigeria
manifesto, we have
mapped out the
steps to be taken.
Like I have said
before, the
important thing is to
hold a National
Conference. The
first step that we
have taken is to
make available the
booklet for the
Save Nigeria
Project.
The second step is
the mobilisation. We
have set up a
committee headed
by Prof. Pat Utomi
to mobilise and
organise the civil
society groups. The
third step we are
going to take is
that very soon, we
will be announcing a
date for a rally we
are going to
organise to present
the booklet; and
after that we will
take the copies of
the National
Conference and
Referendum bill to
the National
Assembly and the
presidency.
The fourth step is
that we will march
to Abuja to present
the booklet and the
bill to the
presidency and the
National Assembly.
If they fail within
the prescribed time
to convene the
National
Conference, the
people of Nigeria
will convene it.
Prof Nwabueze
But will that not be
a direct
confrontation o f
the Federal
Government?
We are not
confronting them,
we are only asking
them to convene a
National
Conference. If they
refuse to do that,
then we will take
the next step. It is
for government to
do what is best in
the interest of
everybody to
convene a national
conference.
If they refuse and
you go ahead with
the national
conference, will the
bombs and
activities of the
Boko Haram come to
an end?
Boko Haram is part
of the National
Conference. There
are indications that
they (Boko Haram)
will be part of the
national conference.
Analysts have
identified corruption
and bad leadership
as the major
problems with
Nigeria. Do you
agree?
All of these:
Corruption,
rottenness,
decadence, the
plunder are the
problems and
above all the 1999
constitution is
thoroughly
defective. And that
is why all ethnic
nationalities must
come around a
table to discuss
and dialogue. The
country is too
diverse, we cannot
govern this country
under a unitary
system of
government.
Do you think the
Igbo people are
ready for the
presidency in 2015
because there are
suggestions the
president would
also contest?
That is why we
need a national
conference to
agree on a system
of rotation of
power. So that
when it is the time
of the Igbos, we will
know that even if
there are 20
aspirants or more,
it will make no
difference because
we are all Igbos.
We cannot go on
like this denying a
large population of
the country the
right to the
presidency, that is
the bone of
contention. I see
very little chance of
an Igbo man
emerging as
president in 2015. I
cannot see it in the
current system.
The Boko Haram
sect has
threatened to bring
down the
government of
President Goodluck
Jonathan in the
next three months.
What is your
position on this?
They will be
brought to the
conference table.
We have indicated
that they will be
part of the national
conference where
everybody will sit
down and agree on
how the country is
to be governed.
link? Knock yourself out..lol
http://www.vanguardngr.com/2012/04/igbos-should-forget-2015-presidency-nwabueze/
Re: Igbos Should Forget The Presidency Come 2015. Check Out Why! by Dainfamous: 10:07am On Apr 17, 2012
Nwabueze, who does he represent, Igbos or Tinubu?

Unfortunately, Professor Ben Nwabueze is a constitutional lawyer. with ex-this, ex-that, but his antecedent has exposed him, as a business lawyer, a political marabout and a hired actvist.

Professor Nwabueze is a familiar face in Nigerian politics and political rights activism, as such, its not so much difficult for one to know who he is, how he operates and when he operates.

Anyone, who knows Professor Ben Nwabueze, knows that, he hardly talk, unless he is chasing after something or something is pursuing him, and as such, for him to be dancing naked in the market place, his drummer must have paid a worthy price, and could not have done such for nothing, never! He does no work for nothing, as such he had stopped in Lagos State since the fuel crisis protest to market his dodgy conference.

This time, Professor Ben Nwabueze contract suspiciously from B**a Tinubu and ACN is to clamouring for the Sovereign National Conference, SNC, though it seems they have modified it recently to just National Conference. But has anyone been curious enough to ask our political contractor professor from his newly rented hotel in the heart of Lagos, who he really representing, Igbos or his sponsor, B**a Tinubu?

Our Professor should know that before any conference could be called or held, signatures must be collected, which of course must not be less than 1/3 of the country, then follow by a referendum which must be supported by not less than 2/3 of the country, before any conference can be held or called.

Professor Ben Nwabueze is a professor of law and one is totally disappointed in the ways and manners he had been speaking, when even a constitutional novice would not have gone so wayward in calling for either sovereign or ordinary conference, while there is a constitutional government, elected on majority in place. This is outrageous and incredible!

It is a statement of mediocrity for Professor Ben Nwabueze to insinuate that some Nigerians will convene a national conference without legal backing of the people and the constitution, and if this happens, such gathering will be treated as act of treasonable felony.

We hereby advise Professor Ben Nwabueze as a constitutional lawyer, to stop embarrassing and ridiculing himself in the public, and if he is so broke, let him apply for a part-time job at Law School n Lagos or in LASU, and stop been errand-boy to politicians, who knows little or nothing in constitutionalism and politics.

Time will tell...
Re: Igbos Should Forget The Presidency Come 2015. Check Out Why! by Afam4eva(m): 10:20am On Apr 17, 2012
That's his opinion. He's entitled to it.
Re: Igbos Should Forget The Presidency Come 2015. Check Out Why! by lekkie073(m): 12:26pm On Apr 17, 2012
d igbos r an unfortunate race......they dont develop their abodes, they dont go to school, all their tinking is about fake products....they will continue to be marginalised till naija splits! Crazie mofo's!
Re: Igbos Should Forget The Presidency Come 2015. Check Out Why! by glowithdan(m): 2:33pm On Apr 17, 2012
[quote author=lekkie073]d igbos r an unfortunate race......they dont develop their abodes, they dont go to school, all their tinking is about fake products....they will continue to be marginalised till naija splits! Crazie mofo's![/quote

1. Tell me where you are from
2. your highest educational qualification
3. And, what you do for a living now; then I will tell you how ignorant you are...

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