Nigeria needs new people’s constitution not amendment, says Olanipekun

By Rasaq Ibrahim, Ado-Ekiti

Erudite lawyer, Chief Wole Olanipekun (SAN), has said only a brand new constitution can address the myriad of challenges bedeviling Nigeria and not an amendment of the operational 1999 Constitution.

Olanipekun regretted that the 1999 legal framework is not adequately enough to handle Nigeria peculiarities.

back link building services=0></a></div><p>The eminent lawyer noted that what the country needs is a people-oriented constitution that will recognise its diversity as the present one was foisted on Nigerians by the military.</p><p>Olanipekun spoke yesterday in Ikere-Ekiti during the presentation of scholarship to 143 students and launching of the Wole Olanipekun Foundation to empower youths and the less-privileged in Ekiti State.</p><p>The 1999 Constitution, he said, breeds corrupt practices and impunity in governance; hence, it should be dumped for a more robust one that will suit the uniqueness of the country.</p><h1>Read Also: <a href=https://thenationonlineng.net/afe-babalola-to-fed-govt-choose-nigerians-over-expatriates-for-construction/ target=_blank rel=

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“The news is everywhere and the propaganda has gone haywire that the National Assembly is amending the Constitution, as if what the Constitution needs is an amendment rather than a total overhaul, starting from the preamble to the definition schedule.