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• Buhari haunted by his coup plotting past, says PDP • HURIWA: You made yourself removable due to crass incompetence, nepotism • Afenifere, UPU, Yoruba Ronu, PANDEF flay FG over coup alarm • Afe Babalola offers to convoke, sponsor Emergency National Conference • Another governor, Ndume raise the alarm over activities of Boko Haram • Insecurity: NANS threatens to shut down the country What began as a rumour or idle talk – whispers of a putsch – yesterday gathered a life of its own as state actors kept giving life to the notion, which is turning and turning in the widening gyre. First was the pledge by the military that it would not overthrow President Muhammadu Buhari, a former army general and head of state whose government has come under strident criticisms over growing insecurity in the country.
Afe Babalola donates N50m to fund emergency national conference
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By Rotimi Ojomoyela, Ado-Ekiti
Aare Afe Babalola, legal luminary and founder of Afe Babalola University, Ado Ekiti, (ABUAD), on Tuesday, announced a donation of N50m to a self-sponsored National Conference, christened “Summit of Hope”
According to him, this becomes necessary “in order to find urgent ways out of the current crisis facing the country”.
The proposed conference which is scheduled to hold at his University in Ado Ekiti, anytime soon, was an initiative aimed at halting the country’s drift into imminent anarchy or resorting into another civil war.
Insecurity: Afe Babalola says Nigeria moving towards anarchy, donates N50m for urgent peace summit Insecurity: Afe Babalola says Nigeria moving towards anarchy, donates N50m for urgent peace summit
• Offers ABUAD facilities for hosting of proposed summit
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Disturbed by the growing insecurity pervading the country, the founder of Afe Babalola University Ado-Ekiti (ABUAD) Aare Afe Babalola, has called for an urgent summit to be attended by all leaders and stakeholders where issues relating to the peace and stability of the country would be extensively discussed.
Babalola who feared that the country is drifting towards anarchy with recent events as regards insecurity, said the summit which will be tagged, ‘Summit of Hope’ would afford leaders across divides to discuss and take drastic measures to prevent the country from sliding into another civil war.
Deji Elumoye and Udora Orizu in Abuja
Traditional rulers yesterday renewed their clamour for relevance with a request that 1999 Constitution as amended should be reviewed to include specific roles for them.
The monarchs, under the auspices of the National Traditional Council of Nigeria, accused the military regimes of Gen. Aguiyi Ironsi (rtd), Gen. Yakubu Gowon (rtd) and General Olusegun Obasanjo (rtd) of relegating the traditional institution to the background with no constitutional role.
Chairman of the council and the Sultan of Sokoto, Alhaji Muhammad Sa’ad Abubakar III, said Ironsi’s 1966 Unitary Government Decree; Gowon’s and Obasanjo’s 1967 and 1976 Local Government Reforms Decrees, respectively, stripped traditional rulers of their powers and gave same to local government councils.