On the call for implementation of 2014 conference

When some respected people who know, call on the government to implement the reports of the national conference of 2014, I wonder if such people feign ignorance of the fact that we are practicing multiparty democracy.

The 2014 conference comprised unelected delegates whose decisions cannot be binding. More so that the ruling APC did not participate in the conference.

The only way the conference can be useful is for the National Assembly to use its reports as resource materials in the course of their efforts to amend the current constitution.

In the alternative, any political party which fancies some aspects of the reports is at liberty to include them in its manifesto and canvass for electoral mandate needed for implementation. That is how multiparty democracy works.

I say this because while there is national consensus on the nature of problems confronting the nation, there is no corresponding national consensus on methods of solution. Hence, the significance of multiparty democracy where each political party represents a distinct method of solving national concerns. The party’s method is used for canvassing electoral mandates needed for execution. It is not for a select elite to foist their preference on the rest of the country.

Anthony N. Z. Sani, a former spokesman for northern delegates in 2014 confab, and former publicity secretary of the Arewa Consultative Forum (ACF)