Why Buhari’s administration should implement Nat’l Confab recommendations –Jonathan

Former President Goodluck Jonathan has said that should President Muhammadu Buhari administration implement the recommendations of the national confab, some of the agitations by many Nigerians would be addressed.

Jonathan, who stated this on Wednesday, during the Rivers State Golden Jubilee Lecture and Documentary on the state held in Port Harcourt, added that his administration took the decision to convene a national conference in Nigeria’s interest.

He went further to explain that he decided to organise the conference after ‘The Patriots’ headed by Prof. Ben Nwabueze and others demanded for it as a way forward for the nation.

He said, “I insisted on the national conference after Prof. Ben Nwabueze led The Patriots to demand a national conference to address those areas regarding our growth. Every decision taken at the national conference was by consensus.

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“If the government implements the recommendations, some of the things agitating our minds will be addressed.”

Jonathan decried the situation in the Niger Delta region where the huge funds which had been received through interventionist agencies, failed to yield any result in terms of project execution.

He however said that states had utilised the 13 per cent derivation that come to the oil-rich region.

“The interventionist agencies leave behind uncompleted projects. The 13 per cent that come to the states, I have seen better utilisation of that money,” he said.

 

 

 

 

 

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