Northern delegates reject Jonathan’s confab report

Northern delegates to the 2014 National Conference yesterday rejected the confab report. The delegates to the conference organised during the reign of former president, Goodluck Jonathan, said major decisions reached were arrived at through ‘undemocratic’ means.

They warned against attempt by any group to seek to implement or influence the Federal Government or any of its institutions to use the report of the confab under any guise for the purpose of restructuring Nigeria.

A communiqué after a meeting of the Northern Delegates Forum said “We maintain our position that the report of the confab is of questionable legal validity; is the outcome of a process that lacks popular mandate or support and major decisions were arrived at by undemocratic means.”

The communiqué signed by the forum’s chairman, Senator Jeremiah Useni was read by the secretary, Mohammed Kumalia at the end of the meeting yesterday in Abuja.

“We urge members of the National Assembly to be wary of and not rely or act upon a report, which is full of flaws and not enjoying national or popular support.

“We call upon any group of persons or individuals agitating for any form of restructuring of the federation, first and foremost, to respect the existing constitutional order and to seek to do so within the bounds and parameters stipulated under our constitution and the law. To suggest otherwise would lead to chaos and anarchy,” the forum said.

Kumalia said the delegates would initiate all necessary steps to garner stakeholders supported against the confab report.