patrickuanseru: Confab will yield no result

Former National Publicity Secretary of the defunct Congress for Progressive Change (CPC), Rotimi Fashakin, has said that the proposed National Conference will not yield any positive result.
Fashakin, who spoke as a guest on Channels Television interview programme ‘Sunrise Daily’, expressed doubts over President Goodluck Jonathan’s motive in calling for a national conference at this time in the history of Nigeria.
While referring to the national conference as a bait set up by Nigerian leaders to give themselves a better political life, he said “like President Jonathan is trying to do now to make other regions that are after his neck, ‘that it is our turn for the presidency’, to back off.”
Fashakin referred to recent statements credited to Niger-Delta militant leader, Mujaheed Asari Dokubo, as regards the fate of the nation should the president not be re-elected into power in 2015 for which the president kept mute and did not direct any of his aides to issue a disclaimer.
He described the President’s silence on Asari-Dokubo as an indirect approval from the Presidency.
Speaking further on the actual need for a national conference, Fashakin traced the origin of the call for a national conference back to the June 12, 1993 presidential election, which was annulled by the then military government of Nigeria.
According to him, it was evident that the North wanted the late Moshood Abiola, who was a Yoruba man from South-West as evident in his victory in northern Nigeria “but a certain cabal felt at that time they would decide how Nigeria was to be governed and this led to Nigerians agitating for self-determination.