A Senior Advocate of Nigeria, Ben Nwabueze, appointed into the National Conference advisory committee, has withdrawn his membership of the panel hours to its inauguration, reports say. Mr. Nwabueze, a professor of law, withdrew on health grounds and is abroad receiving medical treatment. Mr. Nwabueze has delegated his membership to another Senior Advocate of Nigeria, Solomon Asemota, in a letter to to the president. “The Secretary-General of the Project Nigeria Consensus Group, Wale Okunniyi, told our correspondent via telephone on Sunday that Nwabueze had written the President, indicating his intention to be represented on the committee by Asemota” Punch, a Nigerian national daily reports. The advisory committee on National Conference is to be inaugurated October 7 by President Goodluck Jonathan in Abuja. The committee has a month to draw up modalities for a proposed National Conference and advise the president. Mr. Nwabueze, an octogenarian, may be away for longer than the one- month term of the committee, reports say. Mr. Asemota is the Chairman of the Governing Council of the Christian Social Movement of Nigeria (CSMN), as well as Coordinator of the Ethnic Nationalities Movement (ENM). He was the first Nigerian to obtain a law degree at the University of Lagos through the evening law program. He started his early life as a police officer but resigned in 1970 to worked as a lawyer. He also holds radical views about the Nigerian state and has long predicted a revolution in Nigeria. “It is clear that Nigeria is ripe for a revolution,” he said in an interview with Sahara Reporters in 2009. “There is no way the youth of Nigeria are going to accept to die of hunger and poverty in a country so blessed with human and material resources.”
Posted on: Mon, 07 Oct 2013 08:40:57 +0000
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