Braithwaite Family Urges Government To Implement 2014 Conference Reports

THE family of late human rights activist, founder of defunct National Advance Party ( NAP), Dr. Tunji Braithwaite, has appealed to President Muhammadu Buhari to implement the recommendations of the 2014 National Conference report to save Nigeria from drifting. In a statement to mark the fifth anniversary of the passing of the elder statesman, who was also a delegate to the 2014 conference, the son, Olumide Braithwaite, said one of the messages his father would have preached to President Buhari is that the government should implement the various conference reports gathering dusts on the archives.

According to him, “My father would have encouraged the president and leadership of the ruling All Progressives Congress ( APC) to address the degenerating insecurity across the nation as it pose serious threat to Nigeria’s corporate and economic existence, just as he would have also cautioned various self- determination groups springing up especially in

Southwest today, not to toy with the unity of the country.”

The statement read: “Tunji Braithwaite was inclined to believe in the unity of the nation, rather than its breakup. He would have appealed to the various ethnic groups from the Southwest and South- South to Southeast as well as the north to come together in a restructured Nigeria most certainly. He would have called for the adoption of the 2014 Constitutional Conference report to be implemented as a panacea to the nations problems.”