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At the meeting with the Northern Traditional Rulers Council in Kaduna, Kaduna State, the NEF stated they are opposing relocation of sophisticated weapons to Southern parts of the country.
The group have also alleged President Jonathan is having secret agenda in choosing to convoke a national conference.
The group's spokesman Solomon Darlong told the Hausa Service of the Voice of America in Abuja that they support only a Sovereign National Conference the outcome of which will uphold and determine the corporate existence of Nigeria.
Furthermore, Darlong also maintained that the North is being short-changed and victimized in the Federal civil service as it accounts for only 16 percent of the total workforce. He said NEF are against injustice, and divisive politics towards Northeners aimed to win elections.
"And we want the national conference to hold after 2015 elections but if they said it must be, then we want sovereign conference whose recommendations will bind on the country," he stressed.
The traditional rulers held consultations behind closed doors under the leadership of the Sokoto Sultan, Alhaji Muhammad Sa'ad Abubakar. He was quoted as saying that the region must be frank and sincere in handling the problems confronting it.
It would be recalled that in his famous December 2, 2013, letter to President Jonathan, former President Olusegun Obasanjo made the same disturbing claim as the Northern traditional rulers.
"Allegation of keeping over 1000 people on political watch list rather than criminal or security watch list and training snipers and other armed personnel secretly and clandestinely acquiring weapons to match for political purposes like Abacha and training them where Abacha trained his own killers, if it is true, it cannot augur well for the initiator, the government and the people of Nigeria," he wrote.
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