About thirty-eight Nigerian
political and thought leaders under the aegis of the ‘Pan Nigerian Consultative
Political Front’ have formed an alliance to rescue the country from what they
called “exploitative grip of a lackluster leadership”.
Members
of the group include Olisa Agbakoba, Ghali Naaba, Oby Ezekwesili, Col Umar
Dangiwa, Pat Utomi, Mailafia Obadiah and Femi Falana.
The
group, in a communique issued by its national secretariat on Wednesday,
announced a 7-point resolution after a “nationwide consultation and
engagement”.
The
communique was signed on behalf of other members by Professor Anthony
Kila and Professor Jibo Ibrahim.
The
communique reads: “Against the worrisome background of the continued
slide of Nigeria into political anarchy and unabated bloodletting and deaths,
owing to the incompetence and failure of the present political leadership of
the country in dealing with the national democratic question of Nigeria as a
diverse multi ethnic, multi religious and multi-cultural entity, We, a select
group of National Leaders of Conscience, Social Democrats and Revolutionary
Ideologues, have been in consultations under the auspices of a new Pan Nigerian
Consultative Political Front with other like-minded Fresh breed political
Ideologues and Stakeholders, beginning from Wednesday, 27th May 2020 to Friday,
12 June 2020 trying to agree on a new political intervention for rescuing our
dear country from the exploitative grip of a lacklustre leadership and the
manipulation of a bickering, factionalised ruling political elites in Nigeria
“Our
nationwide consultations, essentially, motivated by patriotic concerns of
Stakeholders regarding the chaotic and insecure state of Nigeria, an
unfortunate situation basically induced by the country’s self-serving politicians
and rulers, were held largely within the prevailing ambience of the new Webinar
communications technology, with a clear vision of building a new
disciplined/competent Political leadership for the liberation of Nigeria’s
muzzled democracy and hijacked State powers
“Therefore,
we of the new patriotic association of select Leaders of Conscience and
Stakeholders in Project Nigeria, having undertaken thorough and painstaking
deliberations and dialogue on the agenda to save our country from imminent
political collapse and civil strife hereby wish to announce the outcomes of the
historic national consultations and engagements as follows:
“RESOLUTIONS:
1. The facilitating Secretariat of the National Consultative Front is mandated
to immediately facilitate an interim steering coordinating council made up of
experienced leaders of conscience and Democratic Ideologues to drive a new
popular political intervention to urgently save Nigeria from the precipice of
political anarchy and civil strife. The provisional leadership shall be
inclusive and collegiate in structure, capturing the critical segments and
crucial essence of the Nigerian diversity, in inspiring substantial confidence,
trust, sense of belonging and ownership from all Stakeholders aligned within
the new initiative notwithstanding social, cultural, religious and gender
differences; such that every Nigerian can easily become a stakeholder and
automatically imbibe a common sense of commitment and duty towards mass
support, ownership and control of the new Movement slated for launching this
month as a counter force to the current politics of moneybags, highest bidders
and the cash and carry harakiri prevalent under the mercantilist ruling elites
in Nigeria
“2.
A new ideological mass Movement shall be initiated to embark on an immediate
mass mobilisation of the nooks and crannies of the country for popular mass
action towards political constitution reforms that is citizens-driven and
process-led in engendering a new Peoples’ Constitution for a new Nigeria that
can work for all. The new movement shall also, without delay, mobilise
for the economic wellbeing and prosperity of all Nigerians by demanding and
ensuring that Chapter 2 of the present Constitution i e; Fundamental Objectives
& Directive Principles of State Policy becomes justiceable once and for
all, while also mounting an articulate and vigorous campaign to deconstruct and
reconstruct obnoxious election laws which have provided leeway for opportunists
in the corridor of power to subvert the will of the electorates making voting
irrelevant in determining who actually becomes elected in NIgeria.
“3.
That due to the critical deficiency identified in the governance of Nigeria,
especially as regards the question of competence, discipline, cohesion and lack
of democratic best practices among the present ruling class; a problem
emanating from the dearth of principled, disciplined and ideologically
motivated Political class and the absence of democratically birthed and
ideologically inspired Political parties in the country; currently breeding
factional and chaotic political emissions within the country’s ruling political
parties; the new Movement shall undertake, as its key mandate, the conscious
cultivation/building of a new ideologically disciplined alternative Political
class as well as the formation of a new formidable ideologically driven,
democratic mega political platform through popular Mobilisation to provide a
reliable ideological leadership for the country, while positioning the masses
for electoral power as was done by ANC in South Africa.
“5.
Consequently, the Secretariat of the National Consultative Front has been
mandated to review and tease out lessons from certain past initiatives and
interventions, so as to enrich & strengthen the new initiative in such a
way that mistakes are not repeated and risks can be easily mitigated in the
growth and expansion of the new Movement. Similarly, it was also resolved that
the Secretariat should create massive awareness and sensitization about the
bankrupt political and economic situation of the country vis a vis the
historical mission of the new movement’s agenda to deliver the country from its
present comatose state and stem its fast decline into a failed state. To this
end, the Secretariat shall engage in conscious mass mobilisation and careful
recruitment of revolutionary and true Change Agents in the media, academia,
grassroots; among the Women, Youths, Artisan, Vulnerable Nigerians for the
purpose of organising to engender a new Nigeria that works for all.
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