PRONACO¡¦s RECONCILIATION & CONVENING COMMITTEE (RCC)

PRONACO¡¦s RECONCILIATION & CONVENING COMMITTEE (RCC)

This Committee was created on October 14, 2005,
following a PRONACO Stakeholders¡¦ Meeting held at the
Lagos Airport Hotel, Ikeja, Lagos; at which meeting 38
facilitating fully-paid-up member organisations of
PRONACO unanimously decided to ensure that the ongoing
impasse hobbling the actualisation of the long-awaited
PEOPLES¡¦ SOVEREIGN NATIONAL CONFERENCE (PSNC) be
boldly addressed, with the immediate objective of
convening a one-voice PRONACO General Assembly on
October 29, 2005; after reaching out to Pa Anthony
Enahoro and every other leader of PRONACO, to
guarantee a successful General Assembly on the said
date.

To date, these actions and events have followed the
setting-up of RCC, viz.:

„h The RCC successfully communicated its intention to
meet with Pa Enahoro and other PRONACO Elders
(including Ambassador Segun Olusola, Admiral Ndubuisi
Kanu, Professor Wole Soyinka, & Dr. Frederick Fasheun)
at 7p.m of Tuesday October 18,2005, at Pa Enahoro¡¦s
Ikeja residence; and all these elder statesmen and
leaders agreed to be present at the meeting;
„h Pa Enahoro unilaterally, at the last minute,
changed the date for the meeting to Thursday October
20, 2005, at the same venue; and the other elders
graciously adjusted their busy schedules to fit into
his, hopefully, well-intentioned re-scheduling of this
vital meeting;
„h PRONACO Elders and members of the RCC arrived Pa
Enahoro¡¦s residence on the night of Thursday October
20, 2005, only to learn that Pa Enahoro was not
available to host the meeting, regardless of the fact
that this new rendezvous was fixed by him, ostensibly
at his convenience. This development did not go down
too well with both affronted leaders who had been now
twice stood-up, nor with members of the RCC who had
put in so much time and other personal resources to
ensure that the PRONACO impasse be resolved at this
crucial meeting;
„h The RCC resolved to still continue efforts to
facilitate the botched meeting with Pa Enahoro and the
other PRONACO Elders before or by 7p.m. Monday October
24, 2005, following which the RCC would continue its
mandate by effecting more reconciliatory meetings with
other interest groups, especially the many
youth-centred and other civil society bodies before
end-Wednesday October 26, 2006;
„h The RCC concluded that the General Assembly would
still hold on Saturday October 29, 2005, at the
PRONACO Secretariat, beginning from 10:00 a.m. prompt;
and that this position be communicated to all
stakeholders in PRONACO by Monday October 24, 2005,
latest;
„h The RCC has mandated the PRONACO Secretariat to
formally alert the management of Grandview Plaza (the
landlords of the PRONACO Secretariat) of the decision
to hold the next General Assembly at the Secretariat
on October 29, 2005;
„h An invitation to a General Assembly¡§ being
summoned by Pa Enahoro for the same October 29, 205
date was received by members of the RCC on Friday
October 21, 2005; and
„h The RCC is going ahead with current arrangements
for the Saturday October 29, 2005 General Assembly
holding from 10:00a.m. at the PRONACO Secretariat,
Lagos, God willing.

Members PRONACO's RCC.
October 21, 2005.