THE
South-West delegation to the tripartite meeting of the South-South,
South-East and South-West, held in Uyo, Akwa Ibom State, has restated
the call for a Sovereign National Con-ference (SNC), as a way of
fostering greater ethnic co-existence in the country.
It also called for the resolution of grey areas in the 1999
Constitution, as a way of achieving a more equitable federalism in the
country.
In a position paper deli-vered at the conference, last week Thursday,
the South-West delegation noted that the country was currently on the
brink of failure, being progressively ravaged by the forces of
terrorism, corruption and an defective constitution, all of which, it
said, made life unbearable for the masses, while a few wallowed in
opulence.
It said the way to re-solve the anomalies was for all ethnic
nationalities in the country to sit down at a conference, present an
agenda and dialogue with others to reach a national compromise.
The delegation observed that since one of the causes of friction
within the Nigerian polity was the attempt to operate a quasiunitary
constitution, with high concentration of power and resources at the
federal, it had become imperative to amend the 1999 Consti-tution, to
allow for reduced Federal Government powers.
It called for a six-regional structure based on the present six
geopolitical zones, a return to the Westminster model of parliamentary
democracy and fiscal federalism and control.
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