Former Minister of Education, Oby Ezekwesili on Wednesday declared that Nigeria was due for a new constitution that should reflect the values and aspirations of the country.
She spoke in a post on X titled: ‘The Clamor for a New
People’s Constitution for Nigerians’.
According to Ezekweili: “Nigeria and Nigerians need a New
Constitution that reflects our shared values, collective aspirations and common
identity.
“What we need now is the clearest action within the context of the current 1999 Constitution to move the growing conversation on Constitutional change forward.
“We need first, a “Single Issue Amendment” of the 1999
Constitution by @nassnigeria rather than their hundreds of marginal tweaks.
“Such a single issue provision into the 1999 Constitution
will be clauses that allow for citizens-led election of a Constituent Assembly
and countrywide Referendum on its recommendations.
“Second, we need to set up a credible mechanism to help
elect members of a representative People’s Constituent Assembly with the
mandate to midwife the Dialogues- design the processes, the principles of
participation, set agenda priorities, organize and moderate the debates,
interface with relevant public institutions and the Nigerian public and write
and present the Draft Constitution to the public and then subject its content
to Referendum.
“God forbids anyone proposes that the integrity-challenged
@inecnigeria should handle the election of members of a representative People’s
Constituent Assembly for a New Constitution.
“That institution had in the conduct of the 2023 elections
lost what was left of its social capital- lost the fundamental public trust-
that makes an institution trustworthy and respectable.
“The structural defect that holds Nigeria and Nigerians in
all regions of the country back from excelling are dominant in the 1999
Constitution.
“It will take an honest ownership of this Constitutional
problem to turn the tide of our country. It cannot wait for later. Do it. Now.”
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