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Military involvement in politics basterdised Nigeria - APC chieftain

- Bisi Akande called for the stop in the usage of the 1999 constitution
 
- He said amending it will not solve the country's problem
 
- He lamented that the military destroyed the country
 
Chief Bisi Akande has called for the replacement of the 1999 constitution saying it will not help the country progress but will rather lead to its disintegration.
 
The Punch reports that the All Progressives Congress (APC) chieftain in a statement made in Osogbo on Tuesday, July 25 said the replacement should be temporal till a new constitution is put in place.
 
He said the amendment of the 1999 constitution would not bring any good result for the country insisting that it should be scrapped.
 
The former chairman of the APC said the constitution has aided corruption and brought about unemployment.
 
He said: “The 1999 Constitution is Nigeria’s greatest misadventure since Lugard’s amalgamation of 1914.
“The constitution puts emphasis on spending rather than making money, thereby intensifying the battles for supremacy between the legislature and the executive while the judiciary is being corruptly tainted and discredited.
“The constitution breeds and protects corrupt practices and criminal impunity in governance.
“The 1999 Constitution can never be beneficially reviewed and the ongoing piecemeal adjustments or amendments can only totally blot the essence of national values and accelerate the
 de-amalgamation of Nigeria.
“All the angels coming from heavens cannot make that constitution work for the progress of Nigeria.
“It should only be scrapped as a bad relics of military mentality; and it ought to be temporarily replaced with the 1963 Republican Constitution to enable a transition for the writing of a suitable constitution.
“Otherwise, the 1999 Constitution would continue to dwarf Nigeria’s economy and stifle the country’s social structure pending a disastrous and catastrophic bankruptcy.”
 
He also said the “military involvement in Nigerian politics for 29 out of Nigeria’s 57 years of independence was the reason for its dwarf democracy and absence of desired development.”
 
He noted that it “has bastardised the political system so much so that political discussions are no longer issues-based or interesting."
 
President Buhari who has been in London over an undisclosed ailment said he was making progress in London where he is receiving medical attention.
 
In the letter on Tuesday, July 25, 2017, the president said he was prepared to resume work but was waiting for instruction from his doctors.
 
President Buhari made his status known in the ‘thank you’ letter to Conde, according to his special adviser on media and publicity, Mr Femi Adesina.

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