26 Feb 2015 By Ademola Babalola in Ibadan Prominent Yoruba leaders from across the six states in the South-west geo-political zone of the country will today converge on Ibadan, the Oyo State capital, to deliberate on the National Conference held last year in Abuja. Notable leaders expected at the second in the series of post-National Conference deliberations called to review the conference’s position as it affects the Yoruba race, include Chief Olu Falae, Chief Reuben Fasonranti, Chief Ayo Adebanjo, Chief Olanihun Ajayi, Chief Dapo Shonibare, and Chief Korede Duyile. Others expected at the event include Presidential Advisory Committee on the National Conference Senator Femi Okunrounmu, Dr. Kunle Olajide of Yoruba Unity Group, Chairman Unity Party of Nigeria (UPN), Dr. Fredrick Fasehun, Coordinator of Odua Peoples Congress (OPC), Chief Gani Adams, Afenifere Secretary, Yinka Odumakin, Prof. Dupe Olatubosun and Yoruba delegates to the conference. The summit, which is billed for the Premier Hotel, Mokola, Ibadan, is coming exactly a week after the first edition in Akure last Thursday, where President Goodluck Jonathan was endorsed for a second term in office for the primary reason of implementing the report of the conference. Participants at the summit were unanimous in insisting that the only genuine change the nation craves for now is that of the constitution and not of personality at the helms of the country’s affair. They therefore resolved to work assiduously to ensure that the conference’s recommendations get translated to concrete realities and thus threw their weight behind President Jonathan’s re-election. The convener of the summit and Governor of Ondo State, Dr. Olusegun MImiko, said the basis for the summit is basically to call for the implementation of the confab being the only solution to the challenges confronting the nation. Mimiko posited that the confab report when implemented, would create room for each state to have its own constitution, its own police force, its own prison service, can create its own local governments, can build its own airports, seaports and railways. Mimiko said in addition “In the economic domain, solid minerals that had been the exclusive preserve of the federal government since independence, have now been brought to the concurrent list, adding that “States can now create employment and develop at their own pace. With all that, it liberates everybody, it opens up the political space.” For these reasons, he stressed, “in a rational and reasonable society like ours, I don’t expect anything less than the enthusiasm in wanting to implement the report.” He said he believes that the president, who set up the conference, wanted a transformed Nigeria, adding that the summit is only reacting to the call of the National Conference delegates that the people of Nigeria have great roles to play in implementing the report. http://www.thisdaylive.com/articles/nat-l-conference-mimiko-falae-fasoranti-adebanjo-others-storm-ibadan-today/202733/