Chieftain of the pan-Yoruba socio-political organisation, Afenifere, Ayo Adebanjo, says hunger protests, insecurity challenges and the slide of the naira are signs that Nigeria is heading for a collapse.
Adebanjo, who stated this at tge weekend, said until Nigerias Constitution is restructured to reflect true federalism, the country would not enjoy peace.
The elder statesmans comments come amid the plan by the national assembly to amend the 1999 Constitution. With 40 amendment bills received so far, the constitution review committee is expected to be inaugurated on Monday, February 26.
While calling for the outright overhaul of the 1999 constitution, Adebanjo said no matter the amendments done, nothing will work as it should.
The issue of insecurity and bad economy are products of the fraudulent constitution that we are using. There can be no progress until that Constitution is thoroughly changed. A surgical operation must be done on that Constitution, he stressed.
Until they bring down this constitution and we have a new beginning, we cant make any headway. You are just patching things up, amending a constitution that you didnt make. You are amending a constitution that is already broken-down.
They will talk of State Police today, resource control tomorrow, and then they will take the Constitution amendment to the parliament. Yet, the parliament is a product of fraud. No matter what they are doing, it cant work.
Adebanjo added that the solution is to change the constitution back to federalism.
Let all the federating States be autonomous. Lets go back to the 1963 constitution. No more, no less. Anything short of that, you are just wasting your time, he said.
