The Senate, again, on Tuesday restated its opposition to the convocation of a Sovereign National Conference, saying it is a recipe for disaster.
The Chairman of the Senate Committee on Information, Senator Enyinnaya Abaribe, who stated this at a news conference, said the National Assembly was not afraid of discussing any issue or against any forum where national issues are discussed but is insisting on conformity with the stipulations of the 1999 Constitution and its stated methods of amending the constitution.
Abaribe said: “The National Assembly is not against any forum where national issues are discussed.
“But since we are all working under the 1999 Constitution, we must follow it properly.
“Section 9 of the constitution is explicit.
“So, whatever you want to change in terms of amending the constitution to meet whatever reality you want, you have nowhere else to go except to bring it to the Constitution Review Committee through your member in the House or your Senator.
“What we say actually is that if you say there are some persons somewhere who will write something else as constitution, then what obtains is that the person has no confidence in the present democratic set up.
“Anybody who does not have confidence in the present democracy is seeking anarchy.
“And when people make assertions of that nature, we do not have anything to say other than that if you are a democrat, then you seek democratic ways for effecting change.
“We do not understand.
“The calls are coming as if there is more to it.”