Babalola, who is also a Senior Advocate of Nigeria (SAN), made the proposal on Monday at a media briefing held at the Afe Babalola University in Ado Ekiti, the Ekiti State capital.

He raised fears that using the current Constitution to conduct another election in Nigeria would only reproduce the faulty leadership and system being experienced in the country.

In a bid to prevent Nigeria from slipping into such a situation, the legal icon stressed that a new constitution has become an urgent need.

Elder statesman, Chief Robert Clarke, has called for a tenure extension for President Muhammadu Buhari to enable him to tackle the nation’s problems before elections can be held.

The Senior Advocate of Nigeria (SAN) argued on Monday that the few months remaining before the 2023 elections are not sufficient to put an end to the insecurity in the country to make the conduct of the election possible.

Answering questions on Arise Television programme, he maintained that the Constitution provides that the President can extend his tenure for six months in the first instance if he feels that conditions are not good to carry out elections.

He averred that it was wrong to believe that the President cannot stay in office for more than eight years of two tenures.

According to him, the President can continue to give himself a fresh six months extension until such a time election could be held in the country.

Clarke warned that the nation may not survive if nothing was done before the elections.

The Presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Bola Tinubu, has alleged a sinister plot to cause a crisis that will lead to the postponement and disruption of the February 25 polls in Nigeria.

He stated this at the presidential campaign rally at the Ekiti Parapo Pavilion in Ado-Ekiti, the Ekiti State capital, on Friday.

“They want to provoke you to violence, so that election will be disrupted and postponed, and they can cunningly introduce an interim government, that’s their plot. But this will backfire because we are wiser,” the former Lagos governor said.

The APC presidential candidate asked the people to stand firm and resist any negative plot by destroyers.

Activist Pastor of the House of God Church, Chris Okotie, has joined prominent Nigerians calling for an Interim National government to replace President Muhamamdu Buhari’s administration whose tenure expires next year.

Okotie, who spoke in Lagos yesterday, said the Presidential system of Government has failed, and should be jettisoned for the good of Nigerians.

He had contested for the office of the President three times but failed. Several times in his comments on national issues, Okotie claimed that he has the solution to Nigeria’s problems.

The controversial Pastor spoke barely three months after renowned legal luminary, Afe Babalola also called for the installation of interim government after the exit of Buhari in 2023.

Babalola, a Senior Advocate of Nigeria, SAN, said the country has been damaged beyond repair, adding that the solution is to install a temporary Government that would usher in a new Government after the conduct of a Constitutional confab.

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