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YCE STATES READINESS TO MOBILISE OTHER ZONES FOR REFERENDUM: PUNCH NEWS by DeltaFire: 10:15am On Oct 21, 2020
YCE STATES READINESS TO MOBILISE OTHER ZONES FOR REFERENDUM
Punch newspaper
October 9, 2020
Wale Oyewale, Ibadan

The Yoruba Council of Elders on Thursday indicated its readiness to mobilise other geopolitical zones in the country to move for the adoption of a referendum, insisting that no amount of amendments of the constitution can move the country forward.

The elders spoke after a meeting presided over by the President of the association, Justice ‘Demola Bakre (retd.) at the YCE Secretariat in Ibadan, the Oyo State capital.

Also at the meeting was the Secretary-General of YCE, Dr Kunle Olajide, and its National Treasurer, Akindele Aremu, among others.

“The 1999 Constitution lied against itself by claiming that it wás written by the people of Nigeria when it was written by a few people handpicked by the military administration.

“The Presidency should forward without delay a bill for introducing referendum into the constitution because sovereignty belongs to the people,” the group said.

Bakre expressed reservations on what he termed as the indifference by the Presidency to several calls made by various groups and well-meaning personalities in the country on the need for restructuring.
He said, “If you continue asking for something and you don’t stop asking, you will get a good result. President Muhammadu Buhari won’t be there forever. He has less than four years to spend. Another person that is more amenable will come.”

On the resurgence of kidnapping in the South-West, the YCE Secretary-General said people in the zone should put more pressure on the state governors as the chief security officers of their various states, saying, “About a year ago, the Western Nigeria Security Network codenamed Amotekun was launched. Though, initially, the Federal Government was not comfortable with it, but now that all the state houses of assembly have made legislation and recruitment has started, we should start putting more pressure on the governors to act fast.”


Link: https://punchng.com/yce-states-readiness-to-mobilise-other-zones-for-referendum/
Re: YCE STATES READINESS TO MOBILISE OTHER ZONES FOR REFERENDUM: PUNCH NEWS by Goldencheese(m): 10:18am On Oct 21, 2020
That is the truth. This ungodly and satanic event provides us with the watershed opportunity to decide our fate as one country.
Re: YCE STATES READINESS TO MOBILISE OTHER ZONES FOR REFERENDUM: PUNCH NEWS by AchalugoNwa(f): 10:21am On Oct 21, 2020
Gbam

death to Nigeria

yeroba ronu

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Re: YCE STATES READINESS TO MOBILISE OTHER ZONES FOR REFERENDUM: PUNCH NEWS by Rugaria: 10:24am On Oct 21, 2020
Na now una dey wake up? Dash them oil wells now and they will start speaking from the two sides of their mouths... The same referendum you lots have been demonizing ever since? What a ophisticated nonsense..
Re: YCE STATES READINESS TO MOBILISE OTHER ZONES FOR REFERENDUM: PUNCH NEWS by protests: 10:26am On Oct 21, 2020
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And what about our brothers and sisters?
Well this meeting was about a week ago.
Before we get to mobilising for referendum,
Let us ask them FG "who went to murder kneeling youths at Lekki?"
Re: YCE STATES READINESS TO MOBILISE OTHER ZONES FOR REFERENDUM: PUNCH NEWS by flyingpig: 10:27am On Oct 21, 2020
BRING IT ON!
Re: YCE STATES READINESS TO MOBILISE OTHER ZONES FOR REFERENDUM: PUNCH NEWS by Racoon(m): 10:28am On Oct 21, 2020
This is the threshold Nigeria is standing now.Forget NASS, constitution because the parasitic leeches will not allow this thing to be done.UN ought to have stepped in to help organise a referendum.Nigeria is exploding.

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