Emeka Anyaoku’s led Group says Nigeria needs a new constitution

Chief Emeka Anyaoku, the former Secretary General of the Commonwealth and his group of intellectuals visited President Bola Tinubu on Friday and pushed for the creation of a new national constitution.

According to the organization operating under the auspices of ‘The Patriot,’ noted that a new Constitution is now necessary in order to address the ongoing issues plaguing the nation.

Anyaoku opined that the current constitution is incapable of leading the nation to the promised land and that it bears some of the blame for the social and economic problems that the nation is currently facing.

The group addressed State House Correspondents after meeting with President Bola Ahmed Tinubu at the State House on Friday.

Other members of the group who accompanied Anyaoku to the Presidential Villa were, Senator Shehu Sani, Mike Ozekhome, Labaran Maku, Senator Ben Obi, and Segun Osoba, among others.

They advocated that President Tinubu should immediately send a presidential bill to the National Assembly so that a constituent assembly would be put in place and be mandated to produce a new Constitution that would take into consideration the plurality of the country.

The draft constitution, they said should also be subjected to a national referendum that should give the people a new constitution, expected to tackle many of the challenges in the country.

The group, which said the new constitution could be put together in nine months.