Chairman of the 2014 National
Conference Convocation Committee Senator Femi Okunrounmu, , said on
Saturday that many Nigerian politicians were guilty of false assets
declaration.
Okunrounmu stated this while interacting
with newsmen on the sidelines of the 80th birthday celebration of the
founder of the Oodu’a Peoples Congress, Dr. Frederick Fasehun, in Lagos.
He said that if anybody had done anything that was against the law or the constitution, the person should be called to account.
“It should cover all the people who are
guilty, not just target a few individuals. Ninety per cent of
politicians declare assets falsely, so the law should go after all the
people that are guilty of such false declaration of assets, try them and
bring them to justice. They should not just target one or two people,”
he said.
Speaking about national confab, Okunrounmu alleged that leaders of the ruling All Progressives Congress had always opposed it.
“May be, the constitution is favourable
to some parts of the North; many northern APC leaders have always
opposed a national confab. One can understand why they oppose a confab,
but those who know how the current constitution came to being know that
it was fashioned by successive military rulers, mostly from the North,”
he alleged.
He said that the southern wing of the
APC, led by Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, had always agitated for a national
conference, but were opposed to the 2014 confab “for political reasons.”
On the delay in cabinet formation by
President Muhammadu Buhari, Okunrounmu stated that there was no
provision for the president to administer Nigeria without a cabinet.
He added, “Even though there is no
specification on the number of days within which he must send the names
of ministers, any governance without ministers is a government of sole
administrator which is not provided for in the constitution.”
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