National Conference will set North against South – Shehu Sani

Kaduna based human rights activist and President, Civil Rights Congress (CRC), Shehu Sani, has said that the proposed national conference may set the northern part of the country against the south.

 

He is also of the view that the conference is likely to generate “war of words” that will only overheat the polity without addressing the problems of the country.

In a press statement yesterday, Sani described the proposed dialogue as a blackmail and a mischievous political chess game meant to hang the fate of the nation on the continuity of the Goodluck Jonathan’s regime.
The CRC President added that the ‘Goodluck Conference’ will deliver nothing but reports that will neither see the light of the day nor that of the night.

“It’s self deception for anyone to believe that this government will embrace and implement critical views of Nigerians from its conference when the same government has found it difficult to tolerate dissenting opinion from within it’s party and consistently behaved belligerent to the demands of Our university teachers and resident Doctors.”

The activist noted that those who will take the pain to write and submit their volumes of memoranda to the conference will find their memoranda in the belly of termites and bugs or with Akara sellers in Lugbe (a suburb of Abuja).

According to him, it is technically impossible to organise a meaningful and orderly conference at a time when the President and members of the National Assembly and at the same time states governors are out on re-election campaigns next year.

“President Goodluck Jonathan’s government is a bourgeoisie government with a philosophical base, rooted in the preservation of the iniquitous socio economic system and the sustenance of the existing capitalist master-servant relationship,” he said.