Daily Champion (Lagos)

Nigeria: Locals Should Demand Changes - NCP

The National Conscience Party (NCP) has urged Nigerians to demand for radical change and abolition of poverty for the country's advancement.

This is as the Chairman of South west zone of Mega Summit Message (MSM), Chief Rasheed ShittaBey, urged Nigerians to pray for the speedy recovery of President Umaru Yar'Adua.

Chairman of NCP, Chief Afolabi Gbajumo, urged Nigerians to demand for good governance in a Christmas message made available to Daily Champion in Lagos.

"To stand for their rights of having serious anti- corruption drive, good governance, socio-economic upliftment and credible leadership that could change the precarious conditions of our fatherland for proper advancement. Though we encourage people to be solemnly prayerful for a soonest recovery of President Umaru Musa Yar'Adua and goodness of Nigeria as a whole. But that must not be to the aberration of the constitutional laws which stipulated that the Vice President shall be the acting president in the absence of the president who had been hospitalised in far away Saudi Arabia for one month. Consequently, NCP warned the PDP- led Federal Government not to orchestrate an obvious violation of the supremacy of Constitutionalism as that is currently precipitating towards breakage of laws and order contrary to the rule of law mantra which President Yar'Adua advocated for, "the party said.

" We are of the opinion that Nigeria may not have a people- oriented constitutional change and electoral reform with the mannerism the review is being handled by the senate Committee with over-concentration to merely six cities in 6 geo-political zones instead of the 36 states where the largest chunk of grass roots population are domiciled.

On his part, Shitta-Bey admonished Nigerians to demand for total reform of their electoral system, and leadership that would change the country's socio-political, economic and value orientation for the better.

Tagged: Nigeria, West Africa

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