{"id":1045,"date":"2021-08-17T06:48:17","date_gmt":"2021-08-17T06:48:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ebirareporters.com\/?p=1045"},"modified":"2021-08-17T06:48:17","modified_gmt":"2021-08-17T06:48:17","slug":"calls-for-new-constitution-unrealistic-kogi-gov","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ebirareporters.com\/calls-for-new-constitution-unrealistic-kogi-gov\/","title":{"rendered":"Calls for New Constitution Unrealistic \u2013 Kogi Gov"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif; font-size: 12pt;\">By Stephen Angbulu<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-1046\" src=\"https:\/\/ebirareporters.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/FB_IMG_1629182707602-300x191.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"191\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif; font-size: 12pt;\">The Kogi State Governor, Yahaya Bello, has described calls for a new and more representative constitution as unrealistic.<\/span><!--more--><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif; font-size: 12pt;\">Bello said this on Monday while delivering his keynote address at the fifth edition of The Osasu Show Symposium 2021 themed \u2018State of the nation: The people\u2019s constitution\u2019 at the International Conference Centre, Abuja.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif; font-size: 12pt;\">The governor who was represented by the Director-General, Research and Development, member of the Kogi State Executive Council, Moses Okezi, said that Nigerians can at best manage and amend the provisions of the 1999 constitution. But a total abrogation is not obtainable at this time.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif; font-size: 12pt;\">He said, \u201cThe constitution of Nigeria was enacted on 29th May 1999 by military decree 24 inaugurating the Nigerian fourth republic and restoring democratic rule.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif; font-size: 12pt;\">\u201cI believe the lack of direct origins in the people or some of their representatives is why some citizens and some sections of civil society insist that none of the previous constitutions of Nigeria qualifies to be called a people\u2019s constitution.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif; font-size: 12pt;\">\u201cThey advocate the total abrogation of the present one while calling for a process that will midwife the emergence of a new constitution which they claim will be the loadstone for a more egalitarian Nigerian society driven by the rule of law.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif; font-size: 12pt;\">\u201cI understand their arguments. And how I wish I could buy into their optimism. Sadly, given our socio-political realities as a nation, I think calls to dump the present constitution wholesale and make a new one from scratch are not very realistic at this time.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif; font-size: 12pt;\">Bello added that constitutional democracy is not a naturally occurring system of governance saying, \u201cit is always preceded by some authoritarian ways by which society has previously been organised.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif; font-size: 12pt;\">\u201cWhen the forces of progress and modern governance finally makes democracy inevitable in a polity, the weakened authoritarian institutions usually see themselves overseeing the process of their own overthrow; usually, through the making and promulgation of a constitution.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif; font-size: 12pt;\">\u201cThis is the story of most nations and their constitutions. 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