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Nigerian governors and other political office holders in Nigeria have been blamed for the poverty, insecurity and unemployment in the country. Several delegates, who made contributions on the floor of the National Conference Thursday, blamed the country’s woes on its past leaders including some of those who were seated in the hall.

The delegates argue over how they should be fed. The delegates to the on-going National Conference, Thursday, resisted moves to replace the central lunch system introduced by the secretariat with cash payments. Some delegates have for the past three days complained about the quality and quantity of food served by the contractor handling their lunch and called for the feeding arrangement to be suspended.

The conference says words such as genocide could attract international probe. The leadership of the National Conference has cautioned delegates on their choice of words during debates so as to avoid attracting negative international attention to Nigeria. The Deputy Chairman of the Conference, Bolaji Akinyemi, who stated this in his closing remarks at Wednesday’s plenary session, said the use of emotive words like ‘genocide, ‘mass killing’ and others could such send the wrong signal to the international community. Mr. Akinyemi, a former Foreign Affairs Minister, who reminded the delegates that a Nigerian now heads the Security Council of the United Nations, said employing some emotive words could easily activate the International Court of Justice, ICJ, to investigate such claims. Stating that there were about four former foreign ministers, including himself at the conference, the deputy chairman said while it was true that some delegates were