PRONACO STAKEHOLDERS¡¦ MEETING
Held on Friday October 14, 2005,
At Lagos Airport Hotel, Ikeja, Lagos.

This meeting was called by Dr. Beko Ransome-Kuti,
Deputy Leader of PRONACO, and attended by thirty-eight
member organisations of the body, ostensibly to review
ongoing flux within PRONACO, in light of the
still-putative Peoples¡¦ Sovereign National Conference
(PSNC) which is being stifled by personality-crises
and structural defects besetting PRONACO.

During the meeting, different speakers dissected the
obvious challenges facing PRONACO and the PSNC; with
the majority positing that a few leaders of PRONACO
appeared to have failed to carry the general populace
of both PRONACO and NIGERIA along, or were involved in
actions that could only be interpreted as inimical to
the attainment of the vision and mission of PRONACO
and the PSNC.

There was a consensus of opinions, by members present,
that there is urgent need to redefine, establish, and
democratise PRONACO¡¦s structures with a view to
improving the body¡¦s efficiency, whilst freeing it
from any personality cults that may have been
hampering the smooth running of PRONACO¡¦s affairs,
and ultimately slowing-down the drive towards a
successful and effectual convening of the PSNC.

To actualise the meeting¡¦s position and decision,
that there be urgent and radical systemic change in
PRONACO, motions were passed that:
„h Dr. Ransome-Kuti, and other members who had
convened that day¡¦s meeting be stepped-down from
chairing the meeting;
„h A protem chairperson should immediately continue
affairs of overseeing the meeting;
„h A PRONACO RECONCILIATION & GENERAL
ASSEMBLY-CONVENING COMMITTEE (RCC) be constituted and
empowered to ensure the convening of an EXTRAORDINARY
GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PRONACO on October 29, 2005, at
the Lagos Airport Hotel; and
„h No efforts are spared to ensure that ALL member
organisations, and ALL leaders, of PRONACO attend the
29th October General Assembly as scheduled.

The members of the Reconciliation & Convening
Committee (RCC) unanimously appointed were:

1. Hon. Nnamdi Nwokocha, MON, of ONY (Committee
Chairman);
2. Ms. Abiola Akiyode, of WARDC;
3. Mr. Wale Balogun, of COSEG;
4. Ms. Ngozi Iwere, of JAC; and
5. Mr. Tony I. Uranta, of AREF.

The meeting adjourned on the understanding that the
RCC would assiduously execute its mandate and
actualise all decisions taken in the interest of
PRONACO, the proposed PSNC, and the common good of all
the Nigerian peoples.

At the end of the meeting, the RCC convened its
inaugural meeting at the same venue, with all members
present and actively contributive. The RCC next
prepared communication-formats and an action-programme
intended to ensure that its duties are fully
discharged as mandated by the 38 member organisations
present at the just-ended meeting, and swung
immediately into necessary action. All told, it was a
very fruitful meeting, and AREF¡¦s ongoing mediatory
inputs were well appreciated and commended by members
present.

Finally, we recommend that AREF does not relent,
within the ambit of its resources and its mandate, its
efforts to guarantee that this, and any other,
conflict-avoidance intervention or process, that is
for Nigeria¡¦s progress, must succeed.