A South-South delegate at the ongoing National Conference named Okon Osung, who has in the past few days been plotting the elongation of the tenures of President Goodluck Jonathan and other political office holders in Nigeria by 18 months has been disowned by the confab.
This was contained in statement by the National conference, through its Assistant Secretary, Media and Communications, Akpandem James, released on Tuesday.
The conference which strongly disassociated itself from Mr. Osung and his campaign said tenure elongation was never discussed or debated in any of its plenary or Committee sittings and it was never presented before the leadership or delegates at the National conference, adding that neither President Jonathan nor any of his aides contacted the leadership or delegates with the issue of tenure elongation as canvassed by the South south delegate.
According to the statement, Mr Osung's views on tenure elongation are entirely personal to him and must not be viewed or regarded to, in any way, or have any anything whatsoever to do with the National Conference or any of its Committees,
“Such views were never expressed on the floor of the Conference, which did not sit in plenary, as at the time the views were made public. It was never heard, never debated or discussed in any manner whatsoever in any of the Committees whose reports are already with the management of the Conference.
"Both the leadership of the Conference and the other 491 members only read about them in the media just as members of the public did," the statement read.
The statement adds that Mr Osung is acting on his own and does not represent any group participating in the National Conference and his views should be regarded as entirely his personal opinion, adding that the only relationship he has with the conference is that he is one of the 492 delegates.
Mr. Osung, a former Chairman of the
Nigeria Union of Journalists, (NUJ) in the then Cross River State had on
Friday, called for the elongation of the tenure of Mr. Jonathan and
others by 18 months.This was contained in statement by the National conference, through its Assistant Secretary, Media and Communications, Akpandem James, released on Tuesday.
The conference which strongly disassociated itself from Mr. Osung and his campaign said tenure elongation was never discussed or debated in any of its plenary or Committee sittings and it was never presented before the leadership or delegates at the National conference, adding that neither President Jonathan nor any of his aides contacted the leadership or delegates with the issue of tenure elongation as canvassed by the South south delegate.
According to the statement, Mr Osung's views on tenure elongation are entirely personal to him and must not be viewed or regarded to, in any way, or have any anything whatsoever to do with the National Conference or any of its Committees,
“Such views were never expressed on the floor of the Conference, which did not sit in plenary, as at the time the views were made public. It was never heard, never debated or discussed in any manner whatsoever in any of the Committees whose reports are already with the management of the Conference.
"Both the leadership of the Conference and the other 491 members only read about them in the media just as members of the public did," the statement read.
The statement adds that Mr Osung is acting on his own and does not represent any group participating in the National Conference and his views should be regarded as entirely his personal opinion, adding that the only relationship he has with the conference is that he is one of the 492 delegates.
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