Daily Champion (Lagos)
4 July 2008
Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC), yesterday joined other eminent Nigerians and groups in the call for the removal of Prof. Ibrahim Gambari as the chairman of steering committee of the proposed Niger Delta Ssummit.
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The Niger-Delta issues do not require professors.Do not require names of those who have in every way shown that they do not have the interest of the "aware peoples" of Nigeria at heart.And/Or people whose degree of conservativeness,only leave (them) with a higher degree of ignorance of today's requirements and pragmatic solutions.
What we need to move forward are people who are seen ordinarily as ordinary but possessing high interity, selflessly disposed and empathetic. Let us move far away from some and all of those who had sought just themselves; and making comments and doing actions that aptly put them against the chief interest of today's Nigeria, especially with the issues of the Niger-Delta at heart.
We all want to believe that Mr President's intention is a construction that would stand the test of time. Consequently, some of those worn out bricks he,out of not very clearcut intention, may want to employe in his construction, may cause unimaginable damges.Lets have some new wine skin, Mr President.