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Sunday, July 11 2004 Search : Vol 17 No.131

News Opinion Features Sports Chic Faith Personage Magazine Interview Business Week Sunday Politics Ecowas Report Family Line Why we want OBJ to resign- Balarabe Musa JOHN SHIKLAM, Kaduna The Conference of Nigerian Political Parties(CNPP) has maintained that its hard stance on President Obasanjo to resign will persist until the administration's policies impact positively on the lives of Nigerians. So far, the CNPP allege that the President, through his policies, has put the nation and its citizens in grave danger. In the same vain, the conference said ant at attempt to amend the constitution to extend the tenure of the President would be stoutly resisted by it. Chairman of the CNPP and former civilian governor of Kaduna State Alhaji Balarabe Musa in an interview with our correspondent in Kaduna said the conference has given the President an option to "resign patriotically, this is the only thing we can accept." He said heeding to that advice will be a hallmark of patriotism on the part of the government that lacked legitimacy. According to Alhaji Musa, who is also the Nigerians United for Democracy (NUD) Committee Chairman on Sovereign National Conference (SNC), they were opposed to any Constitutional Review or National Conference organised by the present administration. He said the organisation of any constitutional review or the convocation of the Sovereign National Conference remained the legitimate responsibility of the Transitional Government that would take over from President Obasanjo’s administration. "We have stated it very clearly that Obasanjo’s government lacked legitimacy and therefore cannot convoke any Sovereign National Conference nor conduct any constitutional review," said the CNPP chairman. He said that contrary to the argument of those opposed to the SNC for its capacity to disintegrate the nation, it was the continuation of the Obasanjo administration that was endangering the corporate existence of the country. "The Obasanjo government is a greater threat capable of causing the disintegration of Nigeria. If a government is illegitimate, lacks the capacity to perform, and yet it is dictatorial, definitely that government constitutes a greater problem that could cause anarchy, civil war and eventual disintegration," said Alhaji Musa. Meanwhile, the NUD had accepted the interim report by the SNC committee, mandating to harmonise the few divergent views of the Coalition Pro-Democracy and civil group on the modalities for the convocation of the SNC. The NUD, which met penultimate week in Lagos, resolved to present to Nigerians the road map to the SNC next month.

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