‘We are running Nigeria with a wrong constitution’ – Ayo Adebanjo

‘We are running Nigeria with a wrong constitution’ – Ayo Adebanjo

 Chief Ayo Adebanjo, the leader of Yoruba socio-cultural
organisation, Afenifere, has stated that Nigeria must do away with the 1999
Constitution in order to put an end to most of the problems stunting the growth
of the country.

 

Adebanjo, who stated this on Saturday during an interview on
Channels Television’s Sunrise Daily, revealed that “Nigeria’s political,
economic and cultural problems are based on the way we are running the nation
under a wrong Constitution that was not embedded when we got our independence”.

 

He noted that Nigeria would be put on the right path once
the 1999 Constitution imposed on the country by the military is changed.

 

Speaking about Nigeria’s independence, the elder statesman
said, “We lost the ball when the military seized control and changed the
constitution

 

“They imposed a constitution on us which is the cause of the
problem today. So, we should go back to where we were, by changing this
constitution, that’s the bottom line of our problem. All the problems we are
having are based and embedded in the fraudulent constitution by the military.

 

“You cannot rule this country under a unitary system of
government. We have this problem of disunity because of the unitary form of
government the colonialists were using, but when we inverted to federalism
after the London Constitutional Conference in 1953 which came into office in
1954. Before then, there were no questions or issues.”

Source: ‘We are running Nigeria with a wrong constitution’ – Ayo Adebanjo

 - NigerianEye

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