Confab: No referendum, no conference — Ozekhome
Chief Mike Ozekhome is a Constitutional Lawyer and Senior Advocate of Nigeria (SAN). He is equally a federal government delegate at the on going national conference in Abuja.
In this exclusive phone interview with Vanguard, he explans the hassles raised by the conference last week and submits that the three months timed conference would amount to waste of time if the outcome would not be subjected to referendum or a popular plebiscite. Excerpts:
Lamido’s Freudian slip
The National Conference is turning out, as usual, to be a theatre of the absurd, with the thespians being the overused, same old players noisily grandstanding and beating their ethnic and religious empty barrels over mere trifles. There was this picture on the front page of Vanguard on Wednesday, March 27, 2014, in which one elderly man of nearly 80 years old was spoiling for a physical combat with an unseen opponent, while an equally elderly female delegate representing the market women, Madam Felicia Sani, was restraining him. I wondered: if the fisticuff was allowed to proceed who could that pugnacious Baba possibly beat up? If he lands a blow his hand will surely break!
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