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ENAHORO, BUHARI, ATIKU, OJUKWU, UTOMI,
JAKANDE, BALARABE, FALAE OTHERS CONVERGE ON
ABUJA FOR ELECTORAL REFORM AS NIGERIA MARKS
10TH YEAR OF CIVIL RULE
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PRESS STATEMENT
Newsdiaryonline.com
Wednesday May 27,2009
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Eminent Political leaders in country
under auspices of the Mega Summit
Movement have slated a stakeholders’ pre
summit on Electoral Reform for Thursday
28th May, as well as a world press
conference for Friday 29th May 2009 to
demand for a popular reform of Nigeria’s
electoral system as Nigeria marks a
decade of the return of civil rule.
The stakeholders’ pre summit forum
tagged Electoral Reform and the future
of Nigeria’s Democracy holds in
furtherance to the ongoing nationwide
consultations on Electoral Reform and
the future of Nigerian democracy by
eminent political leaders and wide
spectrum of stakeholders under the
leadership of Elder statesman, Chief
Anthony Enahoro. The stakeholders’ pre
summit will also further deliberate on a
proposed alternative Bill on electoral
reform initiated by the new movement.
Expected at the national address, which
begins 10:00am on Friday 29th May at
Transcorp Hilton Hotel, Abuja include
Chief Anthony Enahoro, Alhaji Lateef
Jakande, Alhaji Balarabe Musa, Alhaji
Atiku Aburbarkar, Gen. Muhammadu
Buhari,Chief Ayo Adebanjo, Dim Odumegwu
Ojukwu, Chief Olu Falae, Alhaji Lawan
Keita, Prof Pat Utomi, Senator Iyorchia
Ayu, Dr Arthur Nwankwo, Chief Tom Ikimi,
Dr Tunji Braithwaite, Chief Harry Akande,
Alhaji Yusuf Alli, Mr Dan Nwanyanwu,
Chief Rasheed Adewale Shitta Bey,
Barrister Femi Falana, Dr Usman Bugaje,
Alhaji Asari Dokubo, Dr Sule Hamma among
others which also includes party
chairmen, past and serving senators,
members of the House of Reps, eminent
statesmen, politicians, activists,
professionals, labour / trade union
leaders, women, youths and the media.
The special national address convened by
the movement also became imperative in
view of the threatening reverses that
have characterized democratization
process in Nigeria. The initiative has
grown into a mass movement whose
objective is to announce a political
party soon with the mission of
enthroning popular democracy as well as
pro-people governance in Nigeria.
The new movement recognizes immense
potentials of Nigeria as Africa’s
largest and world’s populous Black
Country but regrets the socio-economic
and political crises that have assumed a
giddying proportion and remain
limitation to translating abundance of
natural and human resources into
fulfilling livelihoods and secured
future.
The movement notes that the myriad of
ills bedeviling the country today derive
from her weak democratic system and
therefore considers the drive for the
formation of a new political party
imperative with the view to giving a
fresh breathe to democratization
process. However, the movement is
conscious that making a new political
party that approximates the collective
yearnings and aspirations of the people
to deliver on genuine democracy and good
governance would remain a mirage without
securing the electoral process from the
booby-traps in the Electoral Act; as the
magnitude of infractions, frauds and
manipulations, violence, confusions and
subterfuge arising from previous
elections since 1999 has demonstrated.
The Summit Group remains faithful to
building a mass movement ahead of the
general elections in 2011 and would
therefore mobilize cross sections of
Nigerians as well as local and
international stakeholders to demand
implementation of a credible Electoral
Reform as a minimum condition for
participation in future elections in
Nigeria. The movement will also examine
strategies for networking and
synergizing with various stakeholders
committed to electoral reform in Nigeria
with a view to imbue the democratization
process with qualitative political
leadership that would approach
governance with ideology and patriotism.
Signed
Mr Wale Okunniyi
Head of Secretariat
Mega Summit Movement
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