A week after holding a post-National Conference summit in Ondo State, Yoruba elders will again hold a post-confab summit in Ibadan, Oyo State, on Thursday (today).

Prominent Yoruba leaders expected to grace the event are the National Chairman of the Social Democratic Party, Chief Olu Falae; leader of pan-Yoruba group, Afenifere, Chief Reuben Fasoranti; Chief Ayo Adebanjo, Chief Olanihun Ajayi, Chief Dapo Shonibare and Chief Korede Duyile.

Others expected at the event include the Chairman, Presidential Advisory Committee on the National Conference, Senator Femi Okunrounmu; National Chairman of the Unity Party of Nigeria, Dr. Fredrick Fasehun and many other Yoruba leaders.

At the first edition of the summit in Akure last Thursday, President Goodluck Jonathan was endorsed for a second term in office in the hope that he would implement the report of the confab.

Participants at the summit were unanimous in insisting that the only genuine change the nation needed now was constitutional.

They, therefore, resolved to work to ensure that the confab recommendations got translated into reality.

The convener of the summit and Governor of Ondo State, Dr. Olusegun MImiko, said the basis for the summit was to call for the implementation of the confab being the only solution to the challenges confronting the nation.

Mimiko maintained that the confab report when implemented would create the room for each state to have its own constitution, its own police force, and its own prison service.

He said if implemented, states would be able to create local governments, build airports, seaports and railways.

Mimiko said, “In the economic domain, solid minerals that have been on the exclusive preserve of the Federal Government since independence have now been brought to the concurrent list,” adding that “states can now create employment and develop at their own pace. With all that, it liberates everybody, it opens up the political space.”

Source: PUNCH