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Confab must address injustice in Nigeria –Falae

Ahead  of the National  Conference  scheduled for next month, a former  Presidential Candidate  and ex- Secretary to  the Federal Government,  Chief OluFalae, has  expressed  the hope  that the exercise would  address the imbalance  at the lower  house of the  National Assembly  which  favours  the North.

The elder statesman  averred  that  the confab  should  produce a new  constitution which  would  be used  in the conduct of 2015  general  elections.

In an interview with journalist in Akure the Ondo State capital, Falae decried a situation  where states in the North  have more  local governments and representatives  at the  House  of Representative  as against  their counterpart  in the  South  as  unfair.

This, he explained, is injustices the conference should address.

He said, ’’Look at the Federal Constituencies. Approximately, it is two local governments per Federal constituency. Once upon a time, the National Population Commission, NPC, said Kano and Lagos States had about the same populations many years ago

 

 


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