GenBuhari: @Dudu_Negro,

My intial post was to correc the view that was being thrown about that the 1999 cinsttitution was an upgrade of the 1995 one.

We should compare and contrast the 1995 contitution and the 1999 one.

Many people keep calling for a Soverign Constitutional Conference, well it has already happened in 1995. We can save a lot of time and money by adopting the 1995 constitution and tinkering / udgrading if necessary.

I suggest you go and push your Abacha is Jesus propaganda elsewhere. There was no Constitution in 1995.

The 1999 Constitution, which is in topic, was preceded by the 1993 Constitution.

@Dudu_Negro
Your misguided and unwarranted hatred of Abacha, is preventing you to see reason.
What a pity!

I was not just suggesting the adoption of 1995 constitution because Abacha was responsible for it, the main reason is simply because it is the draft constitution document of Nigeria's latest National Constitutional Conference.

Do me a favor. . . this thread is discussing 1999 Constitution. If you are interested in discussing 1995 Constitution, then please open a new topic for it. I will come there and contribute to the best of my ability. Just make sure the document of the 95 Constitution is accessible for discussion.

I respect that, how ever I would just like to re-iterate that I made first post to correct the view, that the 1999 constitution was an upgrade of the 1995 draft constitution. The draft constitution of 1995 was jettisoned by Obasanjo more or less in its entirety in favour of the re-hatched 1979 constitution.

If the 1995 draft was abandoned in its entirety, then how does it feature as a baseline into the 1999 version? If it was abandoned, then it has no relevance in the 1999 document. If I follow your argument, on one hand you are saying that the 95 draft did not materialize in the 99 version, but then turn around and say there's a parent-child relationship between the two. How so?

We had the 1979 constitution (drafted by the 1977-79 constituent assembly) which was operated during th 2nd Republic (1979-1983), the 1989 constitution (drafted by the 1988 constituent assembly) which was operated by the 3rd republic (1991-1993), the 1995 constitution which was never used and the 1999 constitution, which is an updated version of the '79 and '89 constitutions.

The 1995 constitution was never used, although some of its provisions (eg 6 geo-political zones) are used as guiding principles today.

Thank you naptu.

Dudu_Negro,
I was not the person that said that there is a relationship between the 1995 draft constitution and the 1999 constitution (which was a re-hatch of Obj's 1979 constitution).
please review by previous posts on this thread.

i have consistently said that the Obj jettisoned the entire 1995 draft constistution in favour of a re-hatched version of the 1979 version, now known as the 1979 constitution.

Any way it appears that naptu2 has now cleared this up for you.

Dudu_Negro: If the 1995 draft was abandoned in its entirety, then how does it feature as a baseline into the 1999 version? If it was abandoned, then it has no relevance in the 1999 document. If I follow your argument, on one hand you are saying that the 95 draft did not materialize in the 99 version, but then turn around and say there's a parent-child relationship between the two. How so?

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