The Yoruba socio-political group, Afenifere, has insisted that the implementation of the recommendations contained in the national conference report is the only way to solve Nigeria's myriads of political and economic problems.
The group also promised to continue to mount pressure on President Muhammadu Buhari to consider the report in his efforts to effect change in Nigeria's political and social order.
Secretary of Afenifere, Basorun Arogbofa, told Premium Times, in an interview in Akure, that the group was not expecting the president to implement all the recommendations, but key recommendations that would make immediate developmental impact on the country.
"Buhari should not throw away the report of the national conference if he wants to end corruption. States should be independent and with so much money at the centre for the Federal Government to play with, it will be difficult to develop the country," he said.
He said besides the letters written and calls made to the president to consider the report, Afenifere would make efforts to meet with him on the report.
"If we write and he does not listen, we talk and he does not listen, then we will meet him.
"He is a Nigerian and should be able to understand and give time to look at the report," Mr Arogbofa stressed.
He lamented that successive governments had the culture of abandoning worthy causes started by their predecessors, saying such was not the case in other climes.
"We have been talking about it and those of us who know what the confab is all about are convinced that it should be implemented.
"Unfortunately for us in this country, we don't see government as a continuum; otherwise, we expect the president to go through the report; it is the way out of all the confusions in the polity," he said.
Mr Arogbofa also noted that the efforts against corruption and economic difficulties would not abate if the country maintained its current structure, where states wait for allocations every month from the centre.
He urged President Buhari to "make haste," noting that the leadership crisis in the National Assembly had contributed to the slow pace of governance in the country.
"It was not well managed, it is causing the country a lot and setting back the business of governance and we don't know when it will come to an end," he added.
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