Politics Today

PASTOR Tunde Bakare of the Latter Rain Assembly has ap­pealed to President Muhammadu Buhari not to ignore the report of the 2014 National Conference, saying it is the navi­gational map with which he can steer the country to a safe destination.
Bakare, who was Buhari’s running make in the 2011 gen­eral elections, made the appeal while delivering his annual “State of the Nation” address yesterday entitled: ‘Road Map to Successful Change’, at his church in Ogba, Lagos.
Saying that Nigeria is now a nation in transition, Bakare said this period would predictably be followed by revolu­tion which will, in turn, be followed by a reformation that will eventually usher in the desired transformation of our nation. He said a key outcome of this process would be the emergence of a true people’s constitution that would facili­tate national integration and provide a suitable governmental framework for the Nigeria of our dreams.
His words: “A truly federal state with such powers vested exclusively on the Federal Government as are necessary to firmly and prosperously knit together the federating units upon which residual powers shall be vested.
“That promise of the true federalism is contained in Ar­ticle 14 of the Nigerian Charter for National Reconciliation and Integration, which was unanimously adopted and signed by the delegates to the 2014 National Conference, including myself, as the basis of our union.
“The All Progressives Congress (APC) may have refused to participate in the 2014 National Conference, but the report of that conference is completely in tandem with the promise of the APC Manifesto. The APC Manifesto and the report of the 2014 National Conference are a tag team in waiting, not a thesis and antithesis. Just as this government adopted the In­tegrated Personnel and Payroll Information System (IPPIS), the Government Integrated Financial Management Infor­mation System (GIFMIS) and the Treasury Single Account (TSA), which were conceived by the Goodluck Jonathan administration, the Buhari-led government should embrace the report of the 2014 National Conference,” Bakare said.

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