Igbo Leaders Of Thought Commend Move To Amend Okoroumu's Report

  

Concerned Igbo Leaders of Thought yesterday expressed satisfaction with the ongoing plans to amend the report of the Senator Femi Okoroumu-led Presidential Advisory Committee (PAC) on the proposed national dialogue earlier submitted to President Goodluck Jonathan by the committee.

The committee had recommended that participation in the conference should be based on federal constituencies.
Igbo leaders as well as well as other geo-political zones, which proposed that the outing should be a conference of ethnic nationalities with the sole aim of producing a new constitution.

Also, following their rejection of the PAC report,  Okunroumu had last week berated the leader of the Igbo Leaders of Thought,  Prof. Ben Nwabueze, insisting that they were yet to obtain the details of the committee's report.

But following media report that President Jonathan had called for an amendment of the report, the Igbo leaders hailed the move, noting that they had been vindicated by the ongoing amendment process.

They expressed appreciation by the wisdom of PAC to sit down once again to reflect the true wishes and aspirations of most Nigerians on the modality for the proposed national conference.

The Igbo leaders also pleaded with the suspected forces sabotaging the proposed conference to repent and join forces to save Nigeria and restructure the country that will make truly great again.

The ongoing amendment is aimed at  reflecting ethnic representation to the conference against the earlier recommended delegation by federal constituencies.

Deputy secretary of the Igbo Leaders of Thought, Elliot Uko, in a statement yesterday, said the PAC rethought to now present the true reflection of the wishes of Nigerians was a welcome development.

Uko said: "We did not indict anybody neither are we apportioning blames. We are grateful to God that the right thing is being done finally.

"We do not know to what extent PAC is willing to do the right thing but we believe that our amiable and committed president will always make sure the right thing is done to move Nigeria forward."

Source: This Day