NBA To Assess Jonathan, Govs, Others Performance. Worried by the lack of democratic dividends as a result of bad governance, the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA) has said it would commence a study of political office holders, particularly President Goodlcuk Jonathan and state governors to assess their performances. The NBA stressed that its assessment will also be carried out on the manifestos and agenda of all political parties at both the state and national levels whose candidates are in power. The national body of lawyers assured that at the end of its study, it will publish a governance scorecard for each. The national president of the NBA, Okey Wali (SAN) revealed the lawyers’ plans recently at the national executive committee meeting of the NBA held at Yenagoa, the Bayelsa State capital. “The NBA will commission study of the manifestos and agenda of all political parties at the state and national levels whose candidates are in power in order to access the extent to which they have delivered on their mandate. At the end of the study, the NBA will publish a governance scorecard for each. The time has come to hold our leaders accountable”. Speaking on the crisis rocking the Nigerian Governors Forum (NGF), Wali urged the governors to quickly resolve their crisis, and get on with the business of governance, which according to him, was why they have been elected governors. “If they cannot resolve their crisis very quickly and face delivery of democracy dividends to their electorates, they must dissolve the body and stop this distraction as sooner than later, Nigerians will call on them, in, or out of government, to give account of their stewardship.” -LEADERSHIP NEWS
Posted on: Mon, 17 Jun 2013 14:16:47 +0000
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