BY SIMON EBEGBULEM

BENIN—Former governor of Edo State, Chief John Odigie-Oyegun, Wednesday, said that the attitude of a member of the Presidential Advisory Committee on National Conference, Col. Tony Nyiam (rtd), towards Governor Adams Oshiomhole’s comment on the proposed national dialogue was an indication of the insincerity of the Federal Government to the conference.

He said that the committee may have been acting out a script to deceive Nigerians “but Nyiam betrayed the Committee by exposing himself and that tells Nigerians that contrary to the preaching of the committee that Nigerians are free to discuss any issue, there are actually issues you must not raise and that will eventually play out at the conference.”

This came as Coalition of Registered Political Parties, CRPP, in the state, called for the outright disbandment of the Conference Committee, so that a new one that will “accommodate the views of every Nigerian will be reconstituted.”

Oyegun, noted that Col.Nyiam’s angry reaction to the position of Oshiomhole that he had no faith in the proposed conference, “has opened what is under the belly. You could see that all these things were staged managed by those who initiated the conference. It is unfortunate and shows how things will go. If a governor cannot freely express his views, then God help the ordinary man.

“Those who initiated the conference, if they meant well for our country, should know that this is an exercise where people will have many contrary views. But if before we start the conference, a member of the team is losing his cool and his balance, then it shows that those who initiated it don’t mean well and they have their agenda.”