The National Democratic Coalition, (NADECO), has said it will not endorse any election conducted based on the 1999 Constitution, as every institution and action taken under the document remains illegal.
Spokesperson for the organisation, Ayo Opadokun, who stated this in a television programme in Lagos, yesterday, said without restructuring, there was no need to hold the 2023 elections and that those who hold the contrary view were pretenders.
According to him, “Anyone saying there must be an election in 2023 before we can talk about restructuring is speaking on a false premise and it is the attitude of demagogue dictators to pretend as if elections solves all problems. Election is not the answer to the crisis we have at hand.
“You are asking us to endorse the false document that was presented to us as a decree in 1999? Every institution under that document remains a false aberration and illegality and we don’t want to have anything to do with that. If you are still under that false belief that they would hold an election, and hold us to ransom again, because most of them who will be elected will swear allegiance and we will sit down again and watch idly, it is a false belief and hope.
“Nigeria will not sit down and watch idly any longer. We are fed up with the false document that was foisted on us”.
Also responding to the presidential ambition of the national leader of APC, Bola Ahmed Tinubu and controversy on whether the presidency should be zoned to the south or the North, Opadokun said NADECO considered such permutations and ambitions of those angling for positions in 2023 as misdirected.
He added that what was of concern to NADECO, and what should concern Nigerians, is that the country is returned to federal constitutional governance.
