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Jonathan discloses how Tambuwal and others made it impossible to implement the outcome of 2014 CONFAB report

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Jonathan discloses how Tambuwal and others made it impossible to implement the outcome of 2014 CONFAB report

Nigeria’s former president, Goodluck Jonathan has talked about why his administration found it impossible to implement the recommendations of the 2014 National Constitutional Conference.

According to Jonathan, the defection of the then Speaker of the House of Representatives, Aminu Tambuwal to the opposition was one of the factors that made it impossible to implement the CONFAB report.

Jonathan recently during the presentation of ‘The National Question’, a book authored by two veteran journalists, James Akpadem and Sam Akpe, with a special focus on the 2014 CONFAB.

He was represented by Senator Anyim Pius Anyim, former Secretary of the Government of the Federation and revealed that it was in the interest of Nigeria and generations unborn to implement the constitutional conference report.

He condemned the scenario where pointless politics was used to influence every important issue facing the country including its security, economics, and even issues of national interest.

This he attributed to the refusal of the Administration of All Progressives Congress (APC) to review the confab report with the intention of putting it into practice.

Jonathan said that he had little to no time to implement the findings since doing that would involve changing the constitution and explained why his administration was not able to take action.

Jonathan said: “I plead with Nigerians not to play politics with the 2014 Conference report. I believe that at the appropriate time, the country through a dedicated parliament will do the right thing.

“And the right thing is to duly and dispassionately consider the report of the conference with a view to implementing the recommendations for the good of the country.

“Whenever people say that I should have implemented its recommendations, my feeling is either those people did not understand the political environment at that time, the length of time it would take to implement the report of a conference like that or probably were just playing politics with such an important matter.

“Those knowledgeable about the processes of constitutional reforms will know that to implement the Confab report, a number of alterations will be made in the constitution which would require the involvement of the National Assembly and state assemblies.

“Such elaborate review couldn’t have been possible at that time because by the time the report was submitted in August 2014, we were already on the verge of a general election.

“It is also important to point out that at that time, the Speaker of the House of Representatives, Rt. Hon. Aminu Waziri Tambuwal, who was a member of my party, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), had already moved out, with some members, to the opposition party.

“When you know that your parliament is under that kind of situation, it would have been imprudent on my own part to take such a precious document, which I consider as crucial to our development yearnings, to a parliament that would not give it due consideration.

“If we had a task that would require the alteration of the constitution, enactment of new laws, and amendment of some existing ones, there was no way that could have been done overnight.”

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