By Our Reporter
A professor of strategy and development, Anthony Kila, has described the 1999 constitution put together by the military over 25 years ago as “faulty“.
Kila, who is a member of the Patriots, a group of eminent Nigerians led by former Commonwealth Secretary General, Chief Emeka Anyaoku, and the chairman of the group’s advocacy committee for the actualization of people’s constitution, spoke on Channels Television’s Politics Today programme on Tuesday.
Kila said Nigeria needs a people constitution to replace the 1999 Constitution (as amended).
“We are in a situation in Nigeria in particular where minor inputs are not enough but globally because of the times we live in, you need quick and intense intervention to obtain anything,” he said.
Recall that The Patriots recently met with President Bola Tinubu to push the agenda for a people’s constitution.
He said, “The constitution starts by saying, ‘We, the people’. It’s not true; those three words are false. The constitution as it stands today is false, faulty, and needs to be redone.”
Kila said the rules of engagement for a people’s constitution were not obeyed in the process of the current Nigerian constitution.
He said the constitution didn’t go through a referendum and didn’t embrace the country’s diversity. “The new constitution that The Patriots want will not suppress that,” he said.
“At the moment in Nigeria, what we try to do is to force people to be what they are not. I believe that Nigeria is a union of nations and there is nothing wrong with that,” he said.
He also clarified that The Patriots are facilitating the process for a new constitution for the country through broad public engagement and not writing one.
With Reports from Channels TV