IMPOSED FRAUDULENT 1999 CONSTITUTION IS WORSE THAN APARTHEID CONSTITUTION OF SOUTH AFRICA; IT MUST BE TAKEN DOWN – vows LNC’s Nnadi
Lower Niger Congress
13th June 2020


Everyone knows that the soldiers invited themselves into Nigeria’s political arena and proceeded, on their own, to rip the stable, peaceful and prosperous parliamentary democracy they met apart, just like a drunken sailor would. Starting from May 27, 1967, the military buried the 4-regional federal constitution of the First Republic and chopped the country into 12 states by issuing a decree. By 1999, 36 fledgling dependent states were created to replace the four regions of the First Republic. Then, the long list of decrees and ordinances promulgated by military autocrats were compiled into a political transition document for the incoming 4th Republic and given legal teeth by the promulgation of Decree No 24 of 1999. This decree was later baptized to answer the 1999 Constitution after the swearing-in of President Obasanjo.

The conundrum facing today’s Unitary Nigeria can be said to be the handiwork of the country’s political class. The military did not succeed in committing the series of treasonable felonies against Nigeria’s stakeholders whose sovereign rights over their ancestral lands were trampled upon with reckless abandon without permission. There were oodles of opportunists in civil society who colluded with the military, at each turn, to bring our God-given lands to ruin in the past half-century. Worse still, there is no shortage of buccaneer political jobbers today who would readily sell their soul and conscience to be allowed to pick the crumbs from under the dining tables of the destroyers of the Nigeria that our fathers earned at Independence of 1960. A bunch of greedy politicians were busy struggling for handouts in Abuja in 1999 rather than focus on querying the constitution on which the new 4th Republic would be predicated, for example.

The same mindset permeates the political class of today. These politicians are more concerned about their monthly payments and associated perks, which are said to be the highest in the world, including the industrialized economies. As long as the politicians get paid, that Nigeria has now become the poverty capital of the world does not really bother anyone’s conscience in Abuja. The National Assembly we have today is constituted with Decree No 24 of 1999 that someone privately renamed the 1999 Constitution. The National Assembly, as currently constituted, is abetting the imposition of fraud on “We the people…” who were confused into casting our votes to elect our supposed representatives. Nigerian politicians behave as mere jobbers who ordinarily should not have any business getting involved in societal leadership in democratic countries.

The political class now has a unique opportunity to redeem decades of betrayal and sheepish endorsement of treason against the nation’s constituents who they swore to protect and represent. It is pitiful to watch some Abuja-based politicians lament in the National Assembly about how they cannot even spend a night in their respective constituencies because of widespread insecurity. They moan in public, but they lack the focus and discipline to seek to understand what’s the real cause of the many woes of today’s Unitary Nigeria. The LNC/MNN Alliance partners now ask the political class in the South and Middle Belt to wake up and to get ready to pull their weight in service of the constituents that have elected them. Stay tuned…

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Okenwa.



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