The pan-Yoruba socio-cultural group, Afenifere, at the weekend stated that there was the need for President Muhammadu Buhari to implement the report of the 2014 National Conference which, it stressed, contains all the solutions to the challenges facing the nation.
It charged the President to forget any misgiving he has about the Confab report and be courageous to make use of those aspects that will take Nigeria out of the present sorry state.
The Afenifere Secretary-General, Basorun Sehinde Arogbofa disclosed this in an interview with Weekend Vanguard in Akure.
According to him, “It will be a disservice if the The pan-Yoruba socio-cultural group, Afenifere at the weekend stated that there was the need for President Muhammadu Buhari to implement the report of the 2014 National Conference which, it stressed, contains all the solutions to the challenges facing the nation.
It charged the President to forget any misgiving he has about the Confab report and be courageous to make use of those aspects that will take Nigeria out of the present sorry state.
The Afenifere Secretary-General, Basorun Sehinde Arogbofa disclosed this in an interview with Weekend Vanguard in Akure.
According to him, “It will be a disservice if the report is thrown into the dustbin by the President. Such a report cannot be wished away. We will appeal to our President who is the father of the nation and the number one citizen to have a second look and summon the courage to pick up the report and make use of those aspects that can make the country move forward.
“President Buhari should be bold enough to look at the report. Nigerians and not spirits or ghosts took the decisions. Ego doesn’t pay where the welfare of the people is concerned. We are surprised that the President would take such a position that he has no intention to glance at the report or make use of it.
“Those who met for the confab are all Nigerians, important Nigerians for that matter that cut across age, positions and tribes. They met to discuss the problems of this country and came out with over 600 consensus resolutions.
“The reason adduced by the President for taking such a position is not the best and it defiles logic. He was quoted to have said that money was spent on the 2014 Confab while the Universities in the country were on strike.
”The problems in our university was just one of the problems that the Confab addressed and proffered solutions but thrown into the dustbin by the President. Such a report cannot be wished away. We will appeal to our President who is the father of the nation and the number one citizen to have a second look and summon the courage to pick up the report and make use of those aspects that can make the country move forward.
“President Buhari should be bold enough to look at the report. Nigerians and not spirits or ghosts took the decisions. Ego doesn’t pay where the welfare of the people is concerned. We are surprised that the President would take such a position that he has no intention to glance at the report or make use of it.
“Those who met for the confab are all Nigerians, important Nigerians for that matter that cut across age, positions and tribes. They met to discuss the problems of this country and came out with over 600 consensus resolutions.
“The reason adduced by the President for taking such a position is not the best and it defiles logic. He was quoted to have said that money was spent on the 2014 Confab while the Universities in the country were on strike. ”
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