Tag: Constitutional Change

“Nigeria needs new Constitution to move forward” – Anyaoku

Aminu Imam

Former Secretary-General of the Commonwealth, Chief Emeka Anyaoku, yesterday declared that the way forward for Nigeria is a new Constitution if the country truly desires to end the “unprecedented level of divisiveness and declining sense of national unity” among its people. The former Commonwealth scribe made the call in Ekiti State while delivering the 2023 Convocation Lecture of Afe Babalola University, Ado Ekiti, titled: “Management of Diversity: A Major Challenge to Governance in Pluralistic Countries”. Anyaoku said to achieve the desired transformation for the better, the country needs a system…

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‘Without a new Constitution, Nigerians will elect failed leaders again in 2023’ – Afe Babalola

Aminu Imam

The founder of Afe Babalola University, Ado-Ekiti, (ABUAD), Afe Babalola, has disclosed that the only way for citizens not to elect another set of failed leaders in the 2023 General Election is for the country to have a new federal Constitution. Babalola, who delivered a paper on Monday, during the 5th Ife Summer Institute of Advanced Studies, at Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, in Osun State, noted that aside the new Constitution, the country should turn to the parliamentary system of government, which he said would be less expensive and ensure…

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“Give us new Constitution before 2023 to avert Nigeria’s drift to anarchy” —Afenifere, Ohanaeze, MBF, others tell FG

Aminu Imam

Some of the nation’s apex socio-cultural organisations, the Afenifere, Ohanaeze Ndigbo, Middle-Belt Forum, and the Pan-Niger Delta Forum, yesterday urged the Federal Government to give the country a ‘new people-oriented federal Constitution’ before the 2023 elections to avert Nigeria’s drift towards another civil war and forceful disintegration. The organisations stated this in a communique issued at the end of an inter-ethnic peace dialogue, with the theme: ‘Restructuring and 2023 Power-Shift: Nigeria’s Make or Break Factor for Political Survival’, convened by Comrade Kennedy Iyere, and organised in Abuja by Youths Off The Street…

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‘Nigeria cannot have new Constitution, Says Senate Dep. President, Omo-Agege

Aminu Imam

Deputy President of the Senate, Ovie Omo-Agege, has shot down calls for a new Constitution, noting that granting such a request would be impossible. Omo-Agege said the Senate Committee on the review of the constitution is working “in accordance with the extant legal order which is the 1999 Constitution.” The deputy senate president revealed this at the on-going 2-day National Public Hearing on the Review of the 1999 Constitution, in Abuja. He said, “Specifically, section 9 of the Constitution empowers the National Assembly to alter the provisions of the Constitution…

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Nigeria’s immediate problem is constitutional change, not talks about 2023 – Adebanjo

Ishaku Yohanna

Ayo Adebanjo, elder statesman has described talks about 2023 presidency as diversionary, saying that Nigeria’s immediate priority should be about initiating a process that would lead to constitutional change and amendment of the 1999 constitution. In recent times, public discourse about the zoning of the 2023 presidency has intensified, while some are agitating for the scrapping of the zoning arrangement, others say it has come to stay. Last week, Malam Mamman Daura, nephew to President Muhammadu Buhari, had said that competence and not geography should determine the next president of…

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