I think this is a make or mar conference for Nigeria. I appeal to all delegates to understand the urgency of this period. Our country is falling apart. We need to put things right. Nobody should come to this conference with any sense of arrogance. We must not negotiate out of fear. We must come as equal partners to the Nigerian project and shed all our prejudices.

Chief Ndukwe Ikoh, leader of Progressive Peoples Alliance ,PPA, and a former governorship candidate in Abia State, in this interview, argues that what the state needs ahead of the 2015 governorship election is the best man for the job and not zoning.

Ibuchukwu Ezike is the Executive Director, Civil Liberties Organisation, CLO. He, along with three others was nominated by the South-East Coalition of Civil Society Groups, made up of over 70 civil society organisations that met in Enugu to nominate four delegates to the confab.

The Federal High Court judgment which advised the 37 Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, members in the House of Representatives who defected to the opposition All Progressives Congress, APC, brought humour in the Senate, on Tuesday, when two PDP senators who are the ‘tormentors-in-chief” of the opposition senators called on their 11 colleagues who had submitted a notice letter to the Senate President, David Mark, for their defection to the APC to come up with the letter again.

Chief Goody Uwazurike is the President of Aka Ikenga, the think-tank of Ohaneze Ndi Igbo. A lawyer, he is also a delegate to the on going National Conference in Abuja. In this interview,with Levinus Nwabuchiogu he reacts to Professor Ben Nwabueze’s position on the conference, describing it as petty.