The National Consultative Front, NCFront, has accused successive governments and political rulers of Nigeria of conspiracy against the constitutional aspirations of Nigerian citizens for a just, united and stable country.
NCFront also frowned at the alleged misplaced preference of the ruling powers for continuous circle of elections into political offices instead of first forging political consensus for the country.
The position of the group was made known on Saturday by its chieftain, Mr. Olawale Okunniyi, while reacting to the apathy that characterized the local government election held in Lagos and Ogun State.
He said the group lamented that continuous circle of elections in the country without popular constitutional consensus of the diverse peoples of Nigeria, vital for Nigeria’s progress and prosperity, was a clear exercise in futility.
He said NCFront considered it a time bomb threatening the corporate existence of Nigeria, and must be urgently detonated by Nigerians before it was too late.
He said it was for that reason that the leadership of the group set up a 60 Member Constitutional Dialogue Advisory Committee, being led by Olisa Agbakoba SAN, Dr Usman Bugaje, Dr Tokunbo Awolowo Dosunmu, Chief Mike Ozekhome and Dr Hakeem Baba Ahmed, who heads the Conference Secretariat to facilitate a pan Nigerian political dialogue.
He said the negotiations were to birth an agreed people’s constitution for Nigeria through the process of constituents’ assembly and referendum, “an Intervention very much expected to stem the tide of tribal and religious conflicts as well as growing insecurity, anarchy and tension in Nigeria.”
Okunniyi said: “NCFront has however decided to rally all well-meaning Nigerians and political gladiators across political divide and party lines to put a stop to the dangerous circle of “elections to perdition” foisted by a powerful cartel of the Nigerian political class, who have taken liberty to run roughshod on the peoples of Nigeria having taken away the sovereign power of Nigerians over the country and the constitution and handed it over to their agents and proteges in the National Assembly through section 8 and 9 of the 1999 military imposed constitution, which erroneously ceded the sovereign power over the Nigerian constitution to the National Assembly.”
The NCFront however warned that the country might never attain the required unity and stability, if the National Assembly did not quickly invoke its powers under section 4 of the 1999 military constitution to make law for the good governance of the country.
