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Apex Igbo socio-cultural organisation, Ohanaeze Ndigbo Worldwide, has called for the contiguous convocation of a Sovereign National Conference to nutrient what it described arsenic a constitution that genuinely reflects the aspirations, diverseness and antiauthoritarian ideals of Nigerians.
In a connection issued on Wednesday and signed by its factional President-General, Chief Omenazu Jackson, the radical argued that nary of Nigeria’s constitutions had emerged from the sovereign volition of the people, insisting that the country’s law past has been shaped by assemblage authorities and successive subject regimes.
According to Ohanaeze, the assemblage constitutions, including the Clifford Constitution of 1922, Richards Constitution of 1946, Macpherson Constitution of 1951 and Lyttleton Constitution of 1954, were designed by the British assemblage medication to beforehand imperial interests alternatively than the aspirations of Nigerians.
The radical besides contended that the Independence Constitution of 1960 and the Republican Constitution of 1963 were products of elite negotiations rooted successful assemblage structures and did not look from a sovereign constituent process involving the Nigerian people.
It further maintained that the 1979 Constitution, the aborted 1989 law experimentation and the existent 1999 Constitutio...
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