Delegate from Northern Nigeria at the National Conference have rejected the “New Draft Constitution” made available to all the delegates by the leadership of the conference in Abuja on Monday.

The report was made available to all the delegates on Monday so that they can examine it before conference resumes plenary on Wednesday (today).

But the northern delegates after their meeting which lasted for several hours in Abuja on Tuesday took their stand not to be part of the plot to draft a new constitution for the country.

Speaking with journalists after the meeting, the leader of the group, who is also the Chairman of the Arewa Consultative Forum, Alhaji Ibrahim Coomassie, alleged that some undemocratic forces were working behind the scene at the conference.

He said the conference lacked legal authority, moral right and political reasons to write a new constitution.

Coomassie, who was a former Inspector General of Police, said, “We the Northern Delegates to the conference wish to assure patriotic Nigerians and all lovers of democracy that we are neither privy to, nor were accessory to the emergence of the controversial ‘New Draft Constitution 2014’.

“We therefore, unequivocally disown it, and emphatically disassociate ourselves from it. Accordingly, we will have nothing to do with it, for the following legal, moral and political reasons.”

Some of the reason cited by the former IG was that the delegates to the conference were not elected but selected hence, the lack the moral and legal standing to draft a constitution for the country

He said the delegates were merely constituted to serve as an ad hoc advisory mechanism for the President.