Politics
THE New Nigeria Group, NNG, movement has urged Nigerians to end the cycle of failed leadership imposed on the masses in 2023 through the ballot, saying that the president Nigeria deserves should be one that has the capacity to manage diversity equitably and peacefully, create wealth and exterminate poverty.
Sam Ohuabunwa, convener of the political group and national President of the Pharmaceutical Society of Nigeria, PSN, said in Lagos on August 16, at the inauguration of the Lagos chapter of the group that Nigeria deserved to have a trustworthy leader that would elevate its citizens from hardship and corruption.
He said that the current Nigerian Constitution was not prepared by Nigerians and that “this document we operate as constitution was imposed by the military government in our quest for democratic governance”.
According to him, the constitution which Nigerians call for its amendment, concentrated too much power at the centre and has not devolved power appropriately to the federating units, namely states, local councils, hence the federal or central government was now overbearing against the federating units.
“The extant constitution has made governance very expensive going by the duplication of offices at the three levels of government and the bi-cameral legislature,” he said.
He added that unicameral legislature is to be considered, including part-time for lawmakers. “The bicameralism at federal and state levels has subjected 70-80 percent of the nation’s income to recurrent expenditures, thus eating deep into that of capital,” he stated
Ohuabunwa, who also faulted the extant national resources sharing formula, advising that the generators of the shareable resources should be better compensated by providing that they pay to the central government royalties as the constitution would provide.
The presidential aspirant, who said the Igbo could not be rightly disregarded in the country, urged Buhari to, as father of the nation, think deep and convene a conference of ethnic, religious and other constituent groups in the country to discuss issues of national cohesion, equity and justice.
The event was attended by many chapters from across the 36 states of the country and Federal Capital Territory, FCT.
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Aug. 19, 2021 @ 17:24 GMT |
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