Sequel to comments credited to President Muhammadu Buhari, as well as the Secretary to the Government of the Federation, SGF, Babachir Lawal, against former President, Goodluck Jonathan’s confab report, the camp of the National Leader of the All Progressive Congress, APC, Bola Tinubu, has joined many Nigerians to express their displeasure.
It could be recalled, that Buhari, during a session with editors of different newspapers, had stated that he was not interested in Jonathan’s confab report. Adding that the report would remain in the archives.
The conference in 2014, had officially cost the Federal Government N9 billion, which was besides minor costs by State Governments and other agencies of the administration.
Some of the recommendations made at the conference were the creation of 18 new States, resource control/derivation, principle/revenue allocation, power sharing allocation, immunity clause, among several others.
Post-Nigeria, gathered that the report was highly applauded by experts, elder statesmen and also seen as one of the giant strides of the Jonathan administration.
About 600 resolutions were passed and a 10, 335 pages of report were reportedly submitted to then President Jonathan, who had promised to fully implement it.
The erstwhile President, who handed over the report to his successor, Buhari, as being among the major unfinished issues of his administration, was reported to have told Buhari to deal with it.
Despite clamours from different quarters for the report to be fully implemented, Buhari has since his inauguration disregarded the report.
The SGF, who defended Buhari’s stance said, “The exercise of the government is not about reading reports.
“The reports are here, so many volumes that for example, it would take me like seven days to go through, and I wonder what happens to my work while am reading it”, Lawal had said.
The camp of the APC National Leader, obviously not happy with comments from Buhari and his AGF, expressed their disagreement in an Editorial Published by the Nation Newspaper, which is owned by Tinubu.
The Editorial published on Sunday, July 3, and titled “Files, files and files”, reads in part: “Rather than ignore past confab and other reports, we need to gain from the them.
”Recently the question about what shape the future of this country will take, and how to approach that destiny has generated renewed acrimony.”The first stir came from the presidency with the news that President Muhammadu Buhari, tossed into the archives, the report of the National Conference, held in 2014, under President Jonathan’s watch.“However, the SGF dismissed the 2014 conference as “job for the boys.””We agree that the circumstances of the 2014 confab fell below the virtues of political rectitude.“But, as Professor Akinyemi noted, too many significant personalities, some of whom of iconic quintessence, took part.“It would therefore, be meeting cynicism with cynicism to throw away the whole report”.
Tinubu’s camp further noted, that it was high time we plunged into our archives to salvage our files of reports.
“They contain our accumulated wisdom as a people. There is virtually no aspect of Nigerian life about which we have no diagnosis, and of which we do not have prognosis or answer.“We have rather turned this search for solution into a destiny of paralysis.“A lot of efforts go into this work, and appreciations are necessary. That is what President Buhari did not demonstrate when he threw the 2014 file into the lurch,” Tinubu’s camp lamented.
Presently, Nigeria need ideas to develop, and the numerous versions of them are buried in the dust of archives, leaving it’s populace in abject poverty, tribal tensions, regional suspicions, religious fears and inequality.
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