Stakeholders to design template for FG over agitations

Stakeholders from the North and South, cutting across different political divides, yesterday, resolved to embark on stateby-state town hall meetings with all aggrieved groups in order to design a template for the Federal Government on how to address increasing agitations.

The stakeholders, under the aegis of Patriotic Movement of Nigeria (PMN), said that Nigeria was sitting on “a keg of gun powder”, stressing that they were set to douse the tension.

Addressing newsmen at Reiz Continental in Abuja, Chairman of the movement, Mallam Bello Abdulkadir, said that the current state of the nation was a source of worry to all stakeholders and emphasised the need to “silence the drums of war and sing the hymns of peace.”

He claimed that agitations for selfdetermination and resource control were precipitated by bad governance and lack of true federalism.

“Now is the time to summon our better selves and commence the solemn duty of continually and unrelentingly binding the wounds of division. We are committed to advancing the cause of a united Nigeria, enriched by shared history, values and experience,” he said.

A former Special Assistant to President Olusegun Obasanjo on Research and Strategy, Dr. Umar Ardo; a former commissioner in Kano State, Dr. Bibi Farouk; former Director of Communications and Strategy for one of ex-President, Goodluck Jonathan’s main campaign structures in 2015, the Transformation Ambassadors of Nigeria (TAN), Udenta O. Udenta, and many others attended the occasion.