Date:
21st March, 2006.
COMMUNIQUÉ ISSUED AT THE END OF A MEETING OF THE NATIONAL COORDINATING COUNCIL (NCC) OF THE NATIONAL CONSCIENCE PARTY (NCP) HELD IN BENIN CITY, EDO STATE ON THE 18TH OF MARCH, 2006
After exhaustive and fruitful deliberations, the NCC of the National Conscience Party (NCP) resolved as follows:
1.NBA BOYCOTT OF COURTS
The NCP Commends the Nigeria Bar Association (NBA) for the powerful statement embodied in the two-day boycott of Courts recently, in protest against Federal and State Governments’ perchance in continued refusal to abide by Court Orders and decisions. By that action, the NBA has shown that the Nigeria People are not helpless in the face of creeping tyranny in our country. The NCP urges the Nigerian people individually and collectively to brace up to regain our sovereignty and establish a truly democratic peoples’ government in Nigeria upon the expiration of Chief Obasanjo’s legal tenure in May 2007.
2.END SELECTIVE TRIAL OF CORRUPT OFFICIALS
The NCP calls for the trial of all those who have been indicted by the Independent Corrupt Practices Commission (ICPC) and all others indicted in different reports by other panels and commissions. Only this will give credibility to the much-touted anti-corruption crusade of Chief Olusegun Obasanjo and address the charge levelled against the Federal Government of selective enforcement of the law.
3,TRY RIGGERS OF ELECTION IN ANAMBRA
The NCP demands the trial of all those who violated the nation’s electoral laws and masterminded the rigging of the Governorship election in Anambra State following the Court of Appeal ruling on the Anambra State Governorship election petition.
4.PASS NEW ELECTORAL LAW NOW
The NCP calls on the National Assembly to pass the new electoral bill into law as a matter of urgency instead of wasting time on continued constitutional review and third term manoeuvring. The NCP emphasises the need for democratic control of electoral bodies nationwide and calls on the National Assembly in passing the Electoral Bill to give serious weight to popular input from the civil society organisations and political parties.
