Forget nat’l confab, Nyako tells Jonathan

Governor Murtala Nyako of Adamawa State, yesterday, asked President Goodluck Jonathan 

to perish the thought of national conference and pay more attention to giving Nigerians good governance.

Nyako, who spoke to Vanguard in an interview, said the planned confab amounted to waste of time and scare resources, which could have been used to provide social amenities.

According to the governor, Nigerians need concrete development projects that could enhance their life expectancy and not talk shops that add no real value to life.

The governor pointed out that the country also needed serious development plans backed by an implementable time frame and the political will to move the nation forward.

Nyako, who is the second governor to oppose the impending confab, said his Ebonyi State counterpart, Chief Martins Elechi, who was the first to kick against the conference, was absolutely right and should be commen-ded for his forthrightness.

Nyako said:”Governor Elechi is absolutely right. What we need now is a development programme and not national conference or dialogue.

“We need critical infrastructure, we need ports and railway system, functional and compulsory education for Nigerians and not talk shops that cannot take us to anywhere.

“We need primary schools that can be described as the best in the world. We do not need too much grammar about develo-ping Nigeria, but concrete efforts and the political will by the government to translate talks into reality for the overall benefit of Nigerians.”