Chief Ayo Adebanjo, elder statesman and Afenifere leader, in this interview with TEMIDAYO AKINSUYI, speaks on the #RevolutionNow protest and the need for an urgent restructuring of the country. He also proffered solutions to the insecurity challenges bedeviling the country today. Excerpts:

Few days ago, some young Nigerians attempted a revolutionary protest against the Buhari administration but they were crushed while the convener, Omoyele Sowore is in DSS Custody. Do you think a revolution can succeed in this country?

Whether a revolution can work in Nigeria or not is not the issue. Let President Muhammadu Buhari restructure and go back to the constitution. All Nigerians want to see is a change of the constitution. The present constitution, which has made Buhari the most powerful President in the whole world must be changed; the constitution that was imposed on us by Northern Army. When the military staged the coup in 1966, they suspended the Republican Constitution and they were ruling with their military power. So, when they wanted to go in 1998, they talked of returning to the barracks and so they gave us this constitution; it is not our constitution. Don’t forget that the military is dominated by Northern Muslims. So, all the differences that were ironed out through the Independence Constitution, which didn’t favour the North, the Muslim North who dominated the military inserted them. All the things we are complaining about, resource control, marginalisation and others, were inserted in the constitution by General Abdulsalami Abubakar and the military. It was not a question of what informed them. So, this constitution is not the constitution of the people. The Independence Constitution was the constitution of our leaders and that was what they agreed upon. The constitution we currently have and which we are talking about was made by the military, which is dominated by a section of the country.

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