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NUD to Organise Sovereign Confab - Musa From Agaju Madugba in Kaduna Nigeria United for Democracy (NUD), organisers of the May 3, 2004 mass action in Abuja has resolved to organise a sovereign national conference (SNC). Although no date has been fixed for the conference, NUD National Chairman and former governor of Kaduna State, Alhaji Balarabe Musa, told THISDAY in Kaduna yesterday that the SNC will hold under a government of national unity. Musa spoke shortly after a meeting of a committee of the NUD which has the responsibility of organising the conference. According to Musa, the NUD had already mobilised no fewer than 70 political parties and civil society organisations that will send delegates to the conference in Abuja. He described the NUD proposed SNC as the last option, insisting that failure to do so would engender sinister consequences for the nation. Musa predicted that perpetual instability in the polity, civil war, anarchy and the possibility of a military take over are imminent except President Olusegun Obasanjo relinquishes power with immediate effect. As he put it, "the Obasanjo government is not capable of performing, it lacks legitimacy, yet, it continues to bring more hardship, with contempt, for the people." Musa recommended a government of national unity for the country pending the outcome of the SNC. He said that recommendation of the SNC would be subject to a national referendum. The Obasanjo administration has long being opposed to a sovereign national conference on the grounds that there cannot be two sovereignity in one country. Although Vice President Atiku Abubakar said recently that the government may be disposed to having a national conference, Obasanjo dismissed the idea, saying that nothing will come out of it. The clamour for a sovereign conference, initially dismissed as a South-west agenda to break the country began during the administration of former military president, General Ibrahim Babangida. It has since won the support of several civil rights groups, opposition parties and prominent individuals. Who Are We ? | About THISDAYOnLine.com | THISDAY People | Contact Us © Copyright 2000 Leaders & Company Limited

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