The Lagos State Chapter of the Alliance for Democracy (AD) has faulted the claim by the national leader of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, that the proposed national conference is a Greek gift. It would be recalled that Tinubu, while speaking with journalists in Lagos last Saturday on his return to the country after medical attention abroad described the proposed national conference as a Greek gift of President Goodluck Jonathan meant to divert the attention of Nigerians from the failure of his government.
AD, in a statement made available to Saturday Mirror by its Lagos State chairman, Kola Ajayi, noted that the president's decision on national conference was well-received by the widest possible cross-section of stakeholders across the Nigerian polity.
"If the President of Nigeria, having soberly considered the long-running demand by various stakeholders and nationalities across the nation for a national conference, has now decided in his capacity as the Chief Executive and Commander- in-Chief of this nation, to propose the convening of such a fundamental and nation-building conversation, who is Bola Tinubu, and where does he derive a legitimate mandate to so categorically pontificate on the rightness or otherwise of the President's decision?" AD asked.
