RESTRUCTURING: Meeting of S’East, S’West elders was inconclusive.

Eminent Leaders of Thought (ELT) from the South East and South West regions of Nigeria on Thursday met in Lagos over the agitating issue of restructuring. meeting was inconclusive because...

the elders have resolved to meet again.

Those who attended the meeting which was held behind closed doors included Professor Ben Nwabueze, Ayo Adebanjo, among others.

Others included Gen. Alani Akinrinade (retd), Gen. Ike Nwachukwu (retd), former governor Gbenga Daniel and Admiral Ndubuisi Kanu (retd), among others.

The group which seeks at having a national consensus on the political restructuring of Nigeria, was however unable to reach a conclusion on the procedure to adopt to go about the restructuring issue.

Secretary of the group, Mr. Olawale Okunniyi, who briefed newsmen after the meeting, said the group also discussed means of fostering unity and dousing the current tension following the demand for Biafra among others.

He however stated that, the ELT through the meeting succeeded in forming a group to be known as Project Nigeria Movement, which he explained, has a mandate to serve as the engine room to reach out to all sectors of the nation in order to find a lasting solution to the current tension in the country.

Okunniyi added that after more consultation and resolution on the restructuring procedure, that ELT will come up with a communique on its position on the restructuring debate.

The secretary of the group emphasised that ELT is totally not in support of Nigeria’s disintegration.