Jonathan Shouldn't Have Appointed Me Into Dialogue Committee ––Says Nwabueze

Leader of The Patriots, Prof. Ben Nwabueze, has described his appointment to serve on National Conference Advisory Committee by President Goodluck Jonathan as inappropriate.

“I never expected to be appointed chairman or member of the Committee, and would, quite frankly, have considered such an appointment inappropriate in the circumstances. It is an appointment for a younger person, not for an old man of 83 years.”

Prof Nwabueze said in the statement on Thursday that he had been in London since September 8, receiving treatment for prostate cancer. He said he had expected that his contribution to the national dialogue would have been to help prepare “a Draft People’s Constitution” which he had hoped to send to the President and the National Assembly.

According to him, “This is the area in which I think my contribution to the work of the Conference would be particularly useful, and I do not see this as in any way conflicting with the Terms of Reference of the Presidential Committee, although they (the Terms of Reference) contain a somewhat vaguely worded item, to wit, ‘to advise government on legal procedures and options for integrating decisions and outcomes of the national dialogue/conference into the constitution and laws of the nation’.”