The Secretary to the Edo State Government, Prof. Julius Ihonvbere, has described the ongoing National Conference in Abuja as an “alternative parliament” whose result would not be implemented.
Ihonvbere, who stated this in an interview with our correspondent in Benin, said that based on the treatment given to the reports of similar conferences in the past, the report of the current exercise would go nowhere.
He said, “This is not the first time we are having recommendations on how to reposition Nigeria. We had it over and over and their reports just gather dust somewhere. I have no doubt that the report of the ongoing conference will also go the same way.
“For me, while the conference is behaving like an alternative parliament now, discussing everything from the price of oil, to budget, to light, women, I begin to think there is no focus in what exactly are the four or five points we ought to deal with and provide a holistic recommendation that will be implemented.
“If you provide the recommendations and those you are submitting the report to do not carry the social consciousness of change, of progressive reformation, if not even the transformation, of the entire society for empowering community and constituencies, it will just be a fine recommendation well bound and submitted to the same custodians of state power, who have recycled the system since independence in different ways.”
Ihonvbere, who decried the crisis rocking the nation, following the series of bombings, the missing Chibok schoolgirls and socio-cultural conflicts, said Nigeria needed a working norm in order to achieve robust transformation.
He said there ought to be an established grand norm for the country in form of a constitution geared towards growth and development.
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