Nigeria: Again, Afenifere Demands Conference of Ethnic Nationalities

20 January 2014

The Afenifere Renewal Group (ARG) at the weekend rejected any national political dialogue which would not be organised on the basis of ethnic nationalities that constitute the country's current federal configuration.

The ARG, a pan-Yoruba socio-political think-tank, also rejected the recommendations of the Presidential Advisory Committee on National Dialogue chaired by Senator Femi Okunrounmu, citing the failing of the committee to develop a modality, which it said, could engender the type of political conference Nigeria needs.

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