The 1999 constitution has been cited as the main cause of issues in Nigeria by Chief Ayo Adebanjo, the leader of the Yoruba sociocultural organisation Afenifere.
He claims that the military-designed constitution, which was imposed on the populace, is to blame for the country’s slow economic development.
According to him, the employment of the incorrect constitution in the governance of Nigeria is the cause of all the country’s current economic, political, and cultural issues.
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He continued by saying that Nigeria would experience genuine advancement if the 1999 constitution was repealed and replaced with a true federal constitution.
In an interview with Channels TV on Saturday, Adebanjo made the assertion while discussing Nigeria’s 63rd anniversary of independence.
According to him, “Nigeria’s political, economic and cultural problems are based on the way we are running the nation under a wrong Constitution that was not embedded when we got our independence.
“We lost the ball when the military seized control and changed the constitution.
“We’ve got it wrong since the military took over and we got it wrong when they went back to the barracks. They didn’t go back with their luggage of the constitution which we didn’t know about.
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“They imposed a constitution on us which is the cause of the problem today. So, we should go back to where we were, by changing this constitution, that’s the bottom line of our problem. All the problems we are having are based and embedded in the fraudulent constitution by the military.
“You cannot rule this country under a unitary system of government. We have this problem of disunity because of the unitary form of government the colonialists were using, but when we inverted to federalism after the London Constitutional Conference in 1953 which came into office in 1954. Before then, there were no questions or issues.
“What I am saying is that the problem we are having in this country today, whether economic, political, or cultural, is based on the way we are running the country under a wrong constitution that was not embedded when we got our independence,”
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