Meanwhile, a former Minister of Education, Dr. Oby Ezekwesili, has described the broadcast by President Muhammadu Buhari as a missed opportunity.
Also reacting to the speech of the President, the Eastern
Consultative Assembly ECA, faulted the President’s position on the unity of
Nigeria, which said was not negotiable.
In a statement by its secretary Elliot Uko, the ECA said if the President
does not immediately as a matter of urgency set up a constituent assembly to
draft a new people’s constitution that will be affirmed at referendum before the
end of 2017, the unity of the country may be facing serious threat by 2018.
To the Human Rights Writers Association of Nigeria HURIWA, the
presidential address is not far-reaching and re-assuring.
HURIWA also said Nigeria’s unity is not cast in iron and is open
to continuous negotiations, restructuring and reworking from the unset of the
amalgamation of the Northern and Southern protectorates in 1914, which produced
the geographical entity called Nigeria by the British colonial overlords
without the democratic input of Nigerians.
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