The Kogi State Governor, Yahaya Bello, has described requires a brand new and extra consultant structure as unrealistic.
Bello stated this on Monday whereas delivering his keynote handle on the fifth version of The Osasu Present Symposium 2021 themed ‘State of the nation: The folks’s structure’ on the Worldwide Convention Centre, Abuja.
The governor who was represented by the Director-Common, Analysis and Improvement, member of the Kogi State Government Council, Moses Okezi, stated that Nigerians can at finest handle and amend the provisions of the 1999 structure. However a complete abrogation is just not obtainable right now.
He stated, “The structure of Nigerian 1999 was enacted on twenty ninth Might 1999 by navy decree 24 inaugurating the Nigerian fourth republic and restoring democratic rule.
“I imagine the dearth of direct origins within the folks or a few of their representatives is why some residents and a few sections of civil society insist that not one of the earlier constitutions of Nigeria qualifies to be known as a folks’s structure.
“They advocate the full abrogation of the current one whereas calling for a course of that may midwife the emergence of a brand new structure which they declare would be the loadstone for a extra egalitarian Nigerian society pushed by the rule of legislation.
“I perceive their arguments. And the way I want I might purchase into their optimism. Sadly, given our socio-political realities as a nation, I believe calls to dump the current structure wholesale and make a brand new one from scratch usually are not very practical right now.”
Bello added that constitutional democracy is just not a naturally occurring system of governance saying, “it’s at all times preceded by some authoritarian methods by which society has beforehand been organised.
“When the forces of progress and fashionable governance lastly makes democracy inevitable in a polity, the weakened authoritarian establishments normally see themselves overseeing the method of their very own overthrow; normally, via the making and promulgation of a structure.
“That is the story of most nations and their constitutions. Even these we contemplate the worldwide democratic powerhouses of the trendy world.”
Bello additional defined that there’ll at all times be foundational points with most constitutions however complete annulment of an outdated structure and the introduction of a brand new one is hardly a sensible technique.
