Jonathan’s Proposed Confab Can’t Be Like Obasanjo’s – Nwabueze

[Shola Sholaz]

LEGAL luminary and Chairman of The Patriots, Professor Ben Nwabueze (SAN), has thrown his weight behind President Gooduck Jonathan's proposed national conference, saying that it could not be like the National Political Reforms Conference, NPRC, organised by former President Olusegun Obasanjo in 2005.
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The elder statesman, who enumerated measures that can make the proposed conference yield desired results, picked holes in calls for a Sovereign National Conference, which he described as a contradiction as a sovereign government is sitting.
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In a 10-page article titled: Nature and Character of the Proposed National Conference:  Its Primal Purpose and Modus Operandi, Nwabueze said that Jonathan's proposed conference was different from Obasanjo's abortive NPRC.
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Disclosing that his committee of 15 lawyers and political scientists that is preparing a draft constitution will begin sitting next Tuesday in Lagos, he said: "In February 2005, President Obasanjo suddenly convened what he called the National Political Reform Conference comprising a motley of persons handpicked by himself and the state governors as well as some members of certain ethnic groups and other associations —a completely undemocratic body with no mandate from the people or from the ethnic nationalities and civil society organisations.

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Of course they are two different people so the things they do cannot just be the same. That is the basic truth