Throw away 1999 Constitution, embrace 1960’s, Akande tells NASS

Former National Chairman of All Progressives Congress (APC), Chief Bisi Akande, has urged the National Assembly members to adopt the 1960 Constitution for Nigeria to move forward.

Akande advised the federal lawmakers to dump the 1999 Constitution written by the military leaders for the country to work.

The former governor of Osun State made this known while fielding questions from journalists on Saturday ahead of his 85th birthday ceremony.


The APC chieftain said the restructuring of the country does not require much other than dumping the 1999 constitution.

He said the 1999 constitution was not written by anybody hence National Assembly must retrace its steps on the constitution.

Akande said, “I will prefer the 1960 constitution for Nigeria, it is the best! For example, in the 1960 constitution, if you are a member of the national and state assembly, you are a part time, you go to your work, politics wasn’t work then.

“Farmers go to the farm, lawyers go to their chambers, doctors go to their hospitals… and when it is time for a meeting they go to a meeting and they pay them a sitting allowance, everybody knows that they are doing it in the interest of the public.”

He decried that the military changed the practice by introducing money and lavish spending into politics which are not helping the country.

“The military, because they wanted to stay permanently in power, they started using money to pay them (assembly) salary and everybody left their job to become a politician,” he stated.

“You leave your job where you all belong, then you become a politician, you have nothing to do, nothing to produce, then you want to be materialistic. You become fake because you have departed from good things to bad.

He warned that, “Until you retrace your steps back, you can’t have it well. If you are talking about restructuring, you don’t need much, throw away this present constitution which is not written by anybody and embrace 1960 constitution, look at present day realities to adjust it.”

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Aburi Accord remains the permanent solution but it is good as we all chose to live on its denial.

Going back to our root is the deal

Having the best Constitution under bad leadership will not make a difference - Olisa Agbakoba (SAN). But a good Constitution can prevent crime bosses from rigging their way into govt coffers. If they like let them adopt the McPherson Constitution, as long as they reduce the powers of the Executive drastically. They be strangling the nation with their unchecked greed!

Nwodosis:
Aburi Accord remains the permanent solution but it is good as we all chose to live on its denial.

What business do we have with Aburi?, is Aburi a place in Nigeria?. Anything that's not agreed upon on Nigerian soil is total rubbish. Aburi was between two military men, 1999 constitution is also a military document. 1960 constitution is the people's document, unfortunately, some people carried out a coup, gave way to mllitary regime in Nigeria and threw away the people's constitution. Same people who should be asking Nigerians for forgiveness are still talking about a toilet paper called Aburi.

-kiss the truth!

Even if Nigerians Embrace the 1960 Constitution, with Politicians like the Mediocre from Agulu, Nigeria won't still develop.

No b by system of Government abeg.

Look at how Nigerians are Hailing Asiwaju because of how he's ruling Perfectly.

Nwodosis:
Aburi Accord remains the permanent solution but it is good as we all chose to live on its denial.

Can you summarize the Aburi Accord?

We need a new constitution for real.
For example items on the exclusive item is way too much
A deep examination on the 1999 constitution you would agree that it is unitary in disguise , power much concentrate on the center

BloomingDale:


Can you summarize the Aburi Accord?

In a follow-up to the Aburi accord, Gowon promolgated Decree 8 which was meant not only to abrogate Ironsi's dissatrous Unity Decree #34 but also to strengthen the regional autonomy by providing for regional armies.

Aburi accord agreed to the unbundling of decree 34.

But when discussions were being held in Lagos after Aburi to unbundle decree 34, Ojukwu refused to attend citing "safety reasons".

Ojukwu will get his briefings from Ejoor after flying from Enugu to Benin.

When hinted on decree 8, Ojukwu said it won't stand .

The next few days , Gowon announced decree 8.

Ojukwu said this was not in agreement with the accord reached at Aburi despite decree 8 considering all the agreements reached and even further to strengthen regions.

The regional army clause was what Ojukwu was against alongside provisions to see for the carving out of COR region from the old eastern region - a demand that had been long sought by the oppressed minorities in the old eastern region.

The accord arrived at in Aburi, Ghana has the following :

1. Members agree that the legislative and executive authority of the Federal Military Government should remain in the Supreme Military Council, to which any decision affecting the whole country shall be referred for determination provided that where it is possible for a meeting to be held the matter requiring determination must be referred to military governors for their comment and concurrence.

2. Specifically, the council agreed that appointments to senior ranks in the police, diplomatic, and consular services as well as appointment to superscale posts in the federal civil service and the equivalent posts in the statutory corporation must be approved by the Supreme Military Council.

3. The regional members felt that all the decrees passed since January 15, 1966, and which detracted from previous powers and positions of regional governments, should be repealed if mutual confidence is to be restored.

As you can see, Aburi called for an end to decree 34.

Now let's look at Decree 8

appointment of judges all over the Federation ahs been abolished. Each Military Governor now controls appointment of judges of the High Court of his Region. But the appointment of the judges of both the Supreme Court of Nigeria and the High Court of Lagos is made the sole responsibility of the Supreme Military Council.

7. All appointments to posts in the superscale group 6 and above in the Public Service of the Federation and appointments to posts of Deputy Commissioner of Police and above in the Nigeria Police Force are now to be made by the Supreme Military Council. The functions formerly discharged under sections 110 and 146 of the Constitution of the Federation by the Federal Public Service Commission and the Police Service Commission respectively are now to that extent limited. 8. Appointments to the offices of Ambassador, High Commissioner and other principal representatives of the Republic in countries other than Nigeria are now, under the Decree, to be made by the Supreme Military Council.


From the above you can see that decree 8 simply codified what was agreed upon at Aburi.

What isn't explicitly mentioned in decree 8 was the Supreme Military Council divesting military authority to regional heads to which only Ojukwu disagreed with.

Now , why would Ojukwu disagree with every region having its own standing army outside the federal army ?

Because Ojukwu and his Enugu Marxists saw this as a threat to their future power grab.

A few days after decree 8, Ojukwu invaded the Midwest and installed a puppet military head of state and from there began a putsch to Lagos.

Midwest was easily invaded and occupied because despite Ejoor's demand to Gowon for arms, Gowon was hesitant to arm the Midwest because of the overwhelmingly Igboid officers and men in the Midwest army who were all sympathetic to Enugu and the Marxist coup of Jan 15, 1966.

Gowon was then forced to create states to delegitimize Biafra territorial claims over the restive anti Ibo Niger Delta provinces.


Anyone refering to Aburi is being highly deceptive as it was Ojukwu that renegaded on Aburi by invading the Midwest and declaring Biafra with the Niger Delta regions.

Aburi was a time wasting venture meant to bid time for Ojukwu who was hell bent on seizing power from Gowon and maintaining the centrist Ironsi military dictatorship.

Do not fall for their lies.

I will end this by stating that since 1999, every attempts to chip away from the dissatrous Ironsi centrist 1999 constitution has been opposed by them.

They feared Tinubu's presidency because it is the only one that can truly kickstart a return to pre Ironsi centrist authority.

Are they not the biggest beneficiaries under the system as can be seen from federal allocations in comparison to contribution to the national purse ?

Do not let them decieve you.

DomPerignon:


In a follow-up to the Aburi accord, Gowon promolgated Decree 8 which was meant not only to abrogate Ironsi's dissatrous Unity Decree #34 but also to strengthen the regional autonomy by providing for regional armies.

Aburi accord agreed to the unbundling of decree 34.

Oh wow. Thank you for the explanation.

naija4life247:


Even after sacrificing over three million of your grandparents to the Yoruba gods of Ogun, Sango, Obatala, Osun, Aiyelala, and Esu Odara, you still don't learn.

Aguyi Ironsi out of greediness and selfishness enacted Decree 34 of 1966 which abolished the Regional Independent Governments, his children's children will continue to pay for it forever

And I'm sure you have never read Decree 34, because if you had, you would have known that it was a a civil service Decree

It was Goeon who abolished all 4 Region's Nigeria had, and created 12 new states to replace them, using Decree 14

DomPerignon:


In a follow-up to the Aburi accord, Gowon promolgated Decree 8 which was meant not only to abrogate Ironsi's dissatrous Unity Decree #34 but also to strengthen the regional autonomy by providing for regional armies.

Aburi accord agreed to the unbundling of decree 34.

But when discussions were being held in Lagos after Aburi to unbundle decree 34, Ojukwu refused to attend citing "safety reasons".

Ojukwu will get his briefings from Ejoor after flying from Enugu to Benin.

When hinted on decree 8, Ojukwu said it won't stand .

The next few days , Gowon announced decree 8.

Ojukwu said this was not in agreement with the accord reached at Aburi despite decree 8 considering all the agreements reached and even further to strengthen regions.

The regional army clause was what Ojukwu was against alongside provisions to see for the carving out of COR region from the old eastern region - a demand that had been long sought by the oppressed minorities in the old eastern region.

The accord arrived at in Aburi, Ghana has the following :

1. Members agree that the legislative and executive authority of the Federal Military Government should remain in the Supreme Military Council, to which any decision affecting the whole country shall be referred for determination provided that where it is possible for a meeting to be held the matter requiring determination must be referred to military governors for their comment and concurrence.

2. Specifically, the council agreed that appointments to senior ranks in the police, diplomatic, and consular services as well as appointment to superscale posts in the federal civil service and the equivalent posts in the statutory corporation must be approved by the Supreme Military Council.

3. The regional members felt that all the decrees passed since January 15, 1966, and which detracted from previous powers and positions of regional governments, should be repealed if mutual confidence is to be restored.

As you can see, Aburi called for an end to decree 34.

Now let's look at Decree 8

appointment of judges all over the Federation ahs been abolished. Each Military Governor now controls appointment of judges of the High Court of his Region. But the appointment of the judges of both the Supreme Court of Nigeria and the High Court of Lagos is made the sole responsibility of the Supreme Military Council.

7. All appointments to posts in the superscale group 6 and above in the Public Service of the Federation and appointments to posts of Deputy Commissioner of Police and above in the Nigeria Police Force are now to be made by the Supreme Military Council. The functions formerly discharged under sections 110 and 146 of the Constitution of the Federation by the Federal Public Service Commission and the Police Service Commission respectively are now to that extent limited. 8. Appointments to the offices of Ambassador, High Commissioner and other principal representatives of the Republic in countries other than Nigeria are now, under the Decree, to be made by the Supreme Military Council.


From the above you can see that decree 8 simply codified what was agreed upon at Aburi.

What isn't explicitly mentioned in decree 8 was the Supreme Military Council divesting military authority to regional heads to which only Ojukwu disagreed with.

Now , why would Ojukwu disagree with every region having its own standing army outside the federal army ?

Because Ojukwu and his Enugu Marxists saw this as a threat to their future power grab.

A few days after decree 8, Ojukwu invaded the Midwest and installed a puppet military head of state and from there began a putsch to Lagos.

Midwest was easily invaded and occupied because despite Ejoor's demand to Gowon for arms, Gowon was hesitant to arm the Midwest because of the overwhelmingly Igboid officers and men in the Midwest army who were all sympathetic to Enugu and the Marxist coup of Jan 15, 1966.

Gowon was then forced to create states to delegitimize Biafra territorial claims over the restive anti Ibo Niger Delta provinces.


Anyone refering to Aburi is being highly deceptive as it was Ojukwu that renegaded on Aburi by invading the Midwest and declaring Biafra with the Niger Delta regions.

Aburi was a time wasting venture meant to bid time for Ojukwu who was hell bent on seizing power from Gowon and maintaining the centrist Ironsi military dictatorship.

Do not fall for their lies.

I will end this by stating that since 1999, every attempts to chip away from the dissatrous Ironsi centrist 1999 constitution has been opposed by them.

They feared Tinubu's presidency because it is the only one that can truly kickstart a return to pre Ironsi centrist authority.

Are they not the biggest beneficiaries under the system as can be seen from federal allocations in comparison to contribution to the national purse ?

Do not let them decieve you.

So tell us more about Gowons Decree 14 that abolished all 4 Region's Nigeria had, and created 12 new states

After that tell us more about Decree 15 that ended resource control

Of course we know you can't to these two areas because Gowon was a Northerner and not Igbo

TimeManager:

What business do we have with Aburi?, is Aburi a place in Nigeria?. Anything that's not agreed upon on Nigerian soil is total rubbish. Aburi was between two military men, 1999 constitution is also a military document. 1960 constitution is the people's document, unfortunately, some people carried out a coup, gave way to mllitary regime in Nigeria and threw away the people's constitution. Same people who should be asking Nigerians for forgiveness are still talking about a toilet paper called Aburi.

-kiss the truth!

Even the 1960 constitution was not agreed to on Nigerian soil, it was agreed to by Nigerian delegates in London

Parachoko:
Even if Nigerians Embrace the 1960 Constitution, with Politicians like the Mediocre from Agulu, Nigeria won't still develop.

No b by system of Government abeg.

Look at how Nigerians are Hailing Asiwaju because of how he's ruling Perfectly.

Yes I'm sure they are hailing $1 to N1200, petrol at N700 a litre, N50,000 a bag of rice

APC scam.

They will rather die than do away with that useless 1999 constitution.

gidgiddy:


Even the 1960 constitution was not agreed to on Nigerian soil, it was agreed to by Nigerian delegates in London

Of course, at the time, we were not an independent country, we had to go discuss our independence and constitution through people's delegates across the country, not a clash of egos between two military men in nearby Ghana which had nothing to do with the interests of the people. For me, 1963 constitution remains the best.

-kiss the truth!

They can as well review and update the constitution.. 1960 laws can't and won't work in 2024. The gap is too much and things have changed.

Let them call for a national conference or referendum or whatever and allow ethnic groups make input on changes they want effected in the constitution.

Hehehe! Let the power shenanigans continue. Nigeria is running inside a cul-de-sac.

G

After becoming governor under the 1999 constitution 🤣🤣. Daddy wa abeg rest

Best advice but chidren of hate won't like it because it is not an advice from a mad man (in Pandora's voice)

The North won't like it oh!

They can't compete fairly, so need an advantage.

Let's face facts, let everybody go their way!

One Nigeria is a farce

Long overdue, that thing needs to be trashed, flushed, shred to pieces, soaked in Acid, put on fire and thrown in the black sea ⛵

Ok

Bisi is right

This is a big opportunity for the south to come together and make such positive moves cos we know the north will not agree to this.

Why should we go back?

Yes, bad leadersike Peter Obi who stole Anambra money and put it in Panama, a tax haven . And invested Anambra money in Fidelity and Hero Beer where he had shares. Thank you

olisaEze:
Having the best Constitution under a bad leader will not make a difference - Olisa Agbakoba (SAN). But a good Constitution can prevent crime bosses from rigging their way into govt coffers. If they like let them adopt the McPherson Constitution, just reduce the powers of the Executive drastically. They be strangling the nation with their unchecked greed!