Northern delegates attending the ongoing national conference have dissociated themselves from the ‘New Draft Constitution’ submitted to all delegates by the leadership of the conference in Abuja on Monday.
They said they were neither privy to, nor were they accessories to the emergence of the controversial draft constitution.
The proposed amendment submitted to the delegates was titled ‘A bill for an act to further alter the provision of the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria (1999) with the first, second and third alteration, and for related matters 2014′.
It was among three copies of the report of the conference that were handed over to the delegates on Monday when plenary resumed.
The report would be debated on when the conference resumes plenary on Wednesday.
But the northern delegates at their meeting which lasted for several hours in Abuja on Tuesday, vowed that they would never be part of the plot to draft new constitution for the country.
Speaking with journalists after the meeting, the leader of the group who is also the Chairman of the Arewa Consultative Forum, Alhaji Ibrahim Coomassie, alleged that some undemocratic forces were working behind the scene at the conference.
He said the conference lacked legal authority, moral right and political reasons to write a new constitution.
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