FROM IHEANACHO NWOSU, ABUJA
Edo State caucus of All Progressives Congress (APC) in the House of Representatives yesterday took a swipe at a member of the Presidential Advisory Committee on National Dialogue, Col Tony Nyiam (retd) over his reported attack on Governor Adams Oshiomhole.
This came as the caucus took side with the party’s governors, in distancing themselves from the planned National Dialogue. It predicted that the conference would be another charade and wasteful venture.
Addressing newsmen yesterday, the caucus, led by the Minority Whip of the House, Hon Samson Osagie, said the behaviour of Nyiam, when the dialogue committee visited Oshiomhole, showed that the conference is bound to fail.
Other members of the caucus at the briefing include Hons Razaq Bello-Osagie, Peter Akpatason, Jim Adun and Abubakar Momoh.
Osagie said Nyiam’s outburst at the meeting was uncalled for. He said: “We are miffed that at a meeting convened to listen to the views of Nigerians on the necessity or otherwise of a national conference, a governor could be disallowed for airing his personal views simply because it was unpalatable to some members of the advisory committee, which is supposed to be an umpire and their uninformed tribal jingoists.
“We wish to condemn in strong terms, the action of Col Nyiam and his co-travellers at the said meeting and to restate the position that their action has betrayed the motive behind the proposed dialogue, which we believe is another charade to waste scarce public resources and further fictionalized the polity.
“We agree with our comrade governor that there have been 10 conferences, which have yielded no positive result and that this present effort is calculated to further fritter away public resources that are suppose to be channelled on public-spirited ventures and will yield no different result.
“What we need, in our view, is a leadership that can break all barriers to our national development through purposeful, focused, courageous and visionary policies and programmes of government that will address the intractable problems of insecurity, unemployment, infrastructural deficit and human capital development.
“We however commend Dr. Femi Okoronmu, chairman of the advisory committee for calling Col Nyiam to order, and urge Nigerians to be vigilant at all times, as some persons are determined to coerce others to accept their views and thereby compromise the basic tenets of democracy, which include freedom of speech, association and other fundamental human rights guaranteed under our constitution.”
Edo State caucus of All Progressives Congress (APC) in the House of Representatives yesterday took a swipe at a member of the Presidential Advisory Committee on National Dialogue, Col Tony Nyiam (retd) over his reported attack on Governor Adams Oshiomhole.
This came as the caucus took side with the party’s governors, in distancing themselves from the planned National Dialogue. It predicted that the conference would be another charade and wasteful venture.
Addressing newsmen yesterday, the caucus, led by the Minority Whip of the House, Hon Samson Osagie, said the behaviour of Nyiam, when the dialogue committee visited Oshiomhole, showed that the conference is bound to fail.
Other members of the caucus at the briefing include Hons Razaq Bello-Osagie, Peter Akpatason, Jim Adun and Abubakar Momoh.
Osagie said Nyiam’s outburst at the meeting was uncalled for. He said: “We are miffed that at a meeting convened to listen to the views of Nigerians on the necessity or otherwise of a national conference, a governor could be disallowed for airing his personal views simply because it was unpalatable to some members of the advisory committee, which is supposed to be an umpire and their uninformed tribal jingoists.
“We wish to condemn in strong terms, the action of Col Nyiam and his co-travellers at the said meeting and to restate the position that their action has betrayed the motive behind the proposed dialogue, which we believe is another charade to waste scarce public resources and further fictionalized the polity.
“We agree with our comrade governor that there have been 10 conferences, which have yielded no positive result and that this present effort is calculated to further fritter away public resources that are suppose to be channelled on public-spirited ventures and will yield no different result.
“What we need, in our view, is a leadership that can break all barriers to our national development through purposeful, focused, courageous and visionary policies and programmes of government that will address the intractable problems of insecurity, unemployment, infrastructural deficit and human capital development.
“We however commend Dr. Femi Okoronmu, chairman of the advisory committee for calling Col Nyiam to order, and urge Nigerians to be vigilant at all times, as some persons are determined to coerce others to accept their views and thereby compromise the basic tenets of democracy, which include freedom of speech, association and other fundamental human rights guaranteed under our constitution.”
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