NCFront Moves To Save Nigeria From Looming Doom, Mobilises For Peoples' Constitution

Conveners of the National Consultative Front (NCFront) alongside emergent leaders of conscience on Monday rolled out a new agenda to launch a value-based and service-oriented Mega Movement Party to rally stakeholders for a New Nigeria by January 2021, with a vow to work for the enthronement of an inclusive people-oriented government in Nigeria through mass mobilization.

The Leaders, who pride their new initiative as a credible alternative to the ruling government, noted that the country is currently facing an existential crisis which demands that all citizens of conscience join the new front in rescuing and salvaging Nigeria from the present festering anarchy and impending doom, by subscribing to its agenda to create a new Nigeria that works for all.

Leaders of the movement expressed their commitment to reorient the country, reform the economy and transform the polity, beginning with the democratic replacement of the unworkable 1999 constitution, stressing that such popular reforms expected to throw up a new people's Constitution can make it possible for Nigeria to have elections where incompetent and self-serving public officers can be rejected.

Joint Chairperson of the NCFront, Prof. Pat Utomi, who made this call from Lagos during a virtual global press conference, asserted that Nigeria is currently in dire need of a doctrine of necessity that would reform the system and apparatus of government, to reverse the deteriorating conditions of national life.

According to him, "Our commitment is to engender an inclusive governance system in which justice supplants impunity, while regard for the dignity of the human person is our organizing mantra. These should ensure that women, youths, minorities, and vulnerable Nigerians with special needs get their due place in our society and as our original national anthem proclaims; though tribe and tongue may differ, in brotherhood we stand.

"However, we are indeed perturbed by the widespread violence, insurgency, banditry and crimes that are unfortunate signposts of the road to Somalia to us as a country, just like the crisis in our educational system, and the increasing economic hardship that has kept the wellbeing of Nigeria in perpetual recursive mode."

Utomi disclosed that the NCFront is poised to prove that power belongs to the people and that the future lies in the hands of citizens, and called for Nigeria to be regenerated into an era of service-oriented politicians committed to a productive economy and pursuit of the escape of ordinary Nigerians from existential misery, not that of godfathers who today loot the country's commonwealth dry.

"We, therefore, want to see more than 70 million Nigerians registered as members of this emergent mass movement in a few months However, if you are a person of conscience or a patriot you must immediately go to the NCFront website and register. Nigeria Must Rise Up Again. Nigeria will Rise Up Again. God Will Heal Our Land. Nigeria Will Rise Up Again," he said.

Also addressing the press at the conference from Abuja, another Joint Chairperson of NCFront, Ghali Umar Naaba lamented that it is difficult to find any functional sector of the country, noting that the general feeling across the country today is that of delusion, hopelessness, and helplessness as the government appears ineffectual, irresponsive and incompetent.

He observed that unemployment, particularly among the nation's youths, has reached and passed unprecedented levels, while the unnecessary loss of human lives due to insecurity has become a recurring decimal with scores of Nigerians being killed on a daily basis.

"Our indebtedness, both internal and external has reached alarming proportions. with the attendant virtual collapse of social and physical infrastructure leading to pervasive and grinding poverty. The way and manner governance is being conducted suggest a high degree of irresponsibility at all levels.

"The agony and anguish of Nigerians about the deplorable state of our economy is palpable and worrisome, while the feeling on the part of many Nigerians is that the days ahead as a Country are numbered," he said.

While revealing that NCFront's vision is that of a united Nigeria that will bring prosperity, security, pride, and dignity to all Nigerians, Naaba gave the Mission of the movement as Promotion and nurturing of a real democratic political system and peoples centered government that will provide equitable, just and inclusive governance for the wellbeing of all Nigerians.

NCFront conveners and members at the event also categorically expressed their resolve to religiously adhere to the principles of internal democracy, which absence in the major political parties is responsible for over eighty percent of the mess we have bee thrown into. They listed the movement's strategic objectives to include the following:

"To establish a formidable mass movement which will result in the creation of an inclusive democratic political platform to groom and provide opportunities to all Nigerians to contest for elections in a competitive process. It is our expectation and belief that it is such a competitive process that can ensure that Nigeria gets the kind of leaders it deserves. Leaders that are competent and that will render selfless service. In the alternative, we will join any political party that will accept to work with us based on our strategic goals and objectives.

"To educate enlighten and re-orientate the electorate so that they no longer be manipulated by unscrupulous politicians whose mission in politics is only self-serving. It is our intention to particularly put emphasis on youth and women groups because more than any other group, they are the most manipulated.

"To consult with all sections of the country with a view to giving Nigerians a constitution that may work for our country to the benefit of all Nigerians. The consultations will include fundamental issues like referendum, self-determination, principles of proportional representation of the people in government, etc. The current constitution cannot be said to be working in favor of Nigerians.

"To mobilize for the economic well-being and prosperity of all Nigerians by ensuring that Chapter 2 of the present Constitution i.e., Fundamental Objectives & Directive Principles of State Policy becomes justiciable once and for all," as contained in a statement issued by the Head, Public Affairs Bureau, NCFront National Headquarters, Dr. Tanko Yunusa.