South-West Consultative Forum on National Conference yesterday called on Nigerians to actively support the proposed National Conference for a new Nigeria to emerge.
Addressing a press conference in Lagos after a closed-door meeting, the group led by foremost lawyer and elder statesman, Dr. Tunji Braithwaite, also warned President Goodluck Jonathan to be cautious on the proposed dialogue.
He said all Nigerians must embrace the dialogue as it would give birth to a new Nigeria with equal opportunities for everyone.
Braithwaite, therefore, cautioned politicians speaking against the planned dialogue, saying those opposing the conference were selfish.
He said: "We commend President Jonathan for buying into the idea of National Conference. The timing of this conference is divine because next year is the 100 years' anniversary of the amalgamation of the North and South. The dialogue will strengthen the basis for the continuous union of our country on our own terms as sovereign people of Nigeria.
"The advocates of National Conference are by no means calling for the dismemberment of Nigeria but a dialogue to redefine the basic existence of the union for the growth and social and economic development of people of this country.
"President Jonathan, by this conference, has taken a very big step. If the conference is successfully managed, the President would have succeeded in writing his name and the name of this generation in the sands of time.
"The purpose of the conference is to give birth to a new Nigeria where there would be equal opportunities for everybody; every ethnic nationality.
"We must caution politicians whose interest in the National Conference is mainly to seize power at all cost for their selfish political gains. This is the conference of Nigerians regardless of political lineage. We know those who are opposing it are opposing it for purely selfish and partisan political reasons. That should have no place in this National Conference.
"We would do everything possible to assist the Okurounmu-led advisory panel to come up with a robust template for the convocation of the National Conference."
Source: Confab: We foresee a new Nigeria –Braithwaite (http://nationalmirroronline.net/new/confab-we-foresee-a-new-nigeria-braithwaite/)
And I see a brand new Nigeria free of bribery and corruption, crimes, insecurity and so on......