Nigeria: Conference Raises 50-Man Committee to Resolve Voting Impasse

27 March 2014

Abuja — The National Conference Chairman, Justice Lebo Kutigi, Wednesday raised a 50-member committee, tagged "The Consensus Group", to deliberate on how to break the deadlock over the voting pattern to be adopted in passing resolutions of the national discourse. The conference, after a two-day debate that ended on Tuesday, could not agree on whether to adopt a voting system based on three-quarters of the 492 delegates in passing resolutions or two-thirds of the participants.

The debate had polarised the delegates along regional lines with northern participants canvassing for the adoption of the three-quarters voting system, while their southern counterparts pushed for a two-thirds majority vote.

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