The 1999 constitution as amended is not a genuine legal document, as it is predicated and hinged in a declaration which is not true to wit – "we the people". This has led to a number of buildings being erected on structurally defective foundations, and for the nation to survive, grow and thrive, the foundation must be totally re-engineered and the only way is to involve the people, set up a Constituent Assembly to formulate a constitution, debate it, and put it through a referendum for adoption or rejection by the Nigeria people. The current parliament must set up a constitutional body to ensure that any constitution is production-led and fashioned by the Nigerian people. The argument has been made that the body set up under President Goodluck Jonathan's administration had done this job, but it has no legal authority or backing. General Buhari said the exercise was a waste of public funds and its recommendations have been deliberately left to gather dust on bookshelves. The kind of body that is envisaged for this new constitution must have only two representatives per state.
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