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A former Deputy National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party, Chief Bode George, on Tuesday, said things are not working in Nigeria because the country’s constitution is copied from the American constitution.

The PDP chieftain made the statement while featuring as a guest speaker at the Fifth Year Lecture organised by SWAAYA Limited, publishers of the Freedom online news platform.

The lecture was themed “2023-2027: Nigerians, elected leaders and expectations.”

Speaking during the event which took place at the Function Suite, Sheraton Hotel, Ikeja, Lagos State, George noted that the Nigerian constitution “is military in setting” and needed to be reviewed.

He said, “Having served that long in the military, I can authoritatively confirm to you that the Nigerian constitution is absolutely military in setting. In the military, orders come from top to bottom.

“But in a democratic dispensation, powers come from the people to the top. But we have copied the American constitution, and that’s why things are not working. We must be deceiving ourselves if we think that this constitution will take us to the promised land.”

The PDP chieftain also backed the idea of state policing, noting that it would be a very effective way of securing the country

LagosFirstSon:
Imagine a so called Tinubu removing subsidy on his first day of inception as president instead of putting the right things in place first before removing it

Now see how terrible this decision has become to the lives of Nigerians

bennybuhari:
What is this old man saying??

LagosFirstSon:
Imagine a so called Tinubu removing subsidy on his first day of inception as president instead of putting the right things in place first before removing it

Now see how terrible this decision has become to the lives of Nigerians

AsomughaChuks05:
The American constitution is not that bad. There are things we could copy and other things we could jettision based on our values. But one thing that we should have copied from the American model of government is the mayoral system of governing towns and cities.

Each town and city in Nigeria should be self governing for quicker and more effective governance. Development would reach the people more using that layer of governance.

This is not the same as local govts that combine many different towns together where the chairman will focus on his own town and leave piecemeal for others or state govts where one governor will want supervise all of the state alone.

Let our Town unions and PGs become functional for real.