The Chairman, Presidential Advisory Committee (PAC) on the proposed National Conference, Senator Femi Okurounmu, yesterday came hard on Prof Ben Nwabueze -led Igbo leaders over their rejection of the report.
Some Igbo leaders led by Prof. Nwabueze (SAN) had last Tuesday rejected some recommendations of PAC on the dialogue, submitted to President Goodluck Jonathan last month.
The Concerned Igbo Leaders of Thought, had after a meeting held last Monday in Enugu, alleged that the committee recommended a mere amendment of the existing constitution instead of a new constitution.
Okurounmu during a press conference in Abeokuta, the Ogun State capital yesterday, described the allegations of the group as just “hear-say”. According to him, the committee under his chairmanship, made no such recommendations as alleaged by the group.
The PAC leader who said he would not be pushed to divulging the contents of the report, noted that he was disappointed by the erudite scholar.
His words: “These allegations show clearly that members of the group have neither seen nor read the report that they are criticizing and are merely acting on hear-say because the Presidential Advisory Committee, under my chairmanship, made no such recommendations as alleged.
“The above criticisms were surely meant to be a setback for the conference by injecting a crisis of confidence between the committee, the people and the government. Without doubt, the critics have added more fuel into the fire of the opposition to the conference, who may be reveling in a feeling of vindication.
“That is why the chicanery of the critics must be exposed at once because by the time their unethical and unprofessional conduct is fully grasped by the public, they would merely have succeeded in destroying their own credibility, lowering their own esteem in the eyes of the public and eroding from whatever respect they may have hitherto enjoyed.

Nwabueze is more like Leader of Drama.

He refused to join the committee when it was put together and he was nominated, using old age and need to enjoy retirement as excuse. He then went around and collected his co-dramatists in alaigbo to draft a new constitution for Nigeria. This man had the opportunity to realize true federalism in 79 when he was part of consttution drafting commitee, he robbed the states of their federating powers and put it in the center, gave powers that the states enjoyed from 67 when they were created to the FG. He gave more derivation to the center. Iboman loves Nigeria more than he lovea his own land.

Nwabueze should go and sit on the side and wait for publication of this report abeg.