2023: Ezekwesili, Falana, Agbakoba, others launch political movement
The movement called
National Consultative Front was made public on Wednesday in a communique made
available to journalists at the new group’s national secretariat, in Abuja.
They group
reportedly had a month-long nationwide consultation and virtual meetings.
Members of the group
include former Speaker of the House of Representatives, Ghali Na’abba; former
deputy governor of the Central Bank, Obadiah Mailafia; Olisa Agbakoba; Femi
Falana; Abubakar Umar; Oby Ezekwesili; Jibo Ibrahim; Yabagi Sanni; Nkoyo Toyo, Isa
Aremu, Chidi Odinkalu, and Shehu Sani.
Others are Remi
Sonaiya, Tanko Yinusa, Shettima Yerima, Funke Awolowo, Peter Ameh and Lanre
Banjo, among others.
For them, the
movement would be citizen-driven and process-led in engendering a new peoples’
constitution.
According to the
communique, they would embark on “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 justiciable 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 electorate making voting irrelevant in determining who actually
becomes elected in Nigeria.”
The members noted
that the current political leadership in different political parties have
failed to protect citizens against insecurity.
“We decry in
categorical terms, the ongoing mindless massacre and kidnappings in the
North-west, North-east, Southern Kaduna, the Middle Belt, Southern part of
Nigeria and in fact the country at large by armed bandits and insurgents, who
invade our communities, especially at night to inflict terror and murder on
hapless residents and unsuspecting indigenes.
“We hereby call on
those presently in charge of our federal government, military, and security
apparatus to immediately wake up and do everything to stop the ongoing
senseless pogrom against the masses of our people.”
In addition, NCF
said it would work towards correcting the ills in Nigeria’s leadership.
The movement was
spearheaded by Fela Durotoye who ran on the platform of Alliance for New
Nigeria (ANN); Mrs Ezekwesili under Allied Congress Party of Nigeria (ACPN),
Kingsley Moghalu under Young Progressives Party (YPP), Donald Duke under the
Social Democratic Party (SDP) and Omoyele Sowore under the African Action
Congress (AAC).
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