Thirty prominent Nigerian activists, academics and other professionals have formed a new political movement called National Consultative Front (NCF).

This was contained in a communique issued “after a month- long nationwide consultation” and virtual meetings which was made public by the new group’s national secretariat in Abuja.

Among members of the 30-member steering committee for the NCF are a former Speaker of the House of Representatives, GHALI NA’ABBA; a former Deputy Governor of the Central Bank, Dr. OBADIAH MAILAFIA, FEMI FALANA (SAN), ABUBAKAR UMAR, OBIGELI EZEKWESILI, Prof. JIBO IBRAHIM, YABAGI SANNI, ISA AREMU, Prof. CHIDI ODINKALU, Senator SHEHU SANNI, OLISA AGBAKOBA (SAN), SHETTIMA YERIMA and FUNKE AWOLOWO.

Part of the resolutions adopted after the meeting read in part, “A new ideological mass movement shall be initiated to embark on an immediate mass mobilisation in the nooks and crannies of the country for popular mass action towards political constitution reforms that is citizens-driven and process-led in engendering a new peoples’ constitution for a new Nigeria that can work for all.