We Should Scrap This Constitution, Adopt 1963 Republican Charter – Sagay

• …the 1963 Republican Constitution addresses everything that is being agitated for in the country and can help halt the turmoil that has rocked the nation.

Chairman of the Presidential Advisory Committee Against Corruption (PACAC), Professor Itse Sagay, has called for the scrapping of the 1999 Constitution and the adoption of the 1963 Republican Constitution.

The Senior Advocate of Nigeria made the recommendation when he appeared on Channels Television’s Politics Today on Monday.

“My own personal preference is that we should scrap this Constitution and adopt the 1963 Republican Constitution,” Professor Itse Sagay has said.

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He believes the 1963 Republican Constitution addresses everything that is being agitated for in the country and can help halt the turmoil that has rocked the nation.

“If we had that, with amendments here and there to make it accommodate states rather than regions which we used to have, I think all these agitations will die down and everybody will be happy,” he added.

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Sagay noted that the Nasir El-Rufai led All Progressives Congress (APC) Committee on Restructuring came up with an excellent report, stressing the need to look at the content of the documents and implement them.

The senior advocate was, however, of the opinion that it would be better to implement the report in a totally new Constitution, rather than amending the existing one which would involve lots of amendments.

He explained that the move by the APC to set up such a committee in the first instance was indicative that President Muhammadu Buhari was in favour of federalism and devolution of powers.