*Wants NASS to adopt it
By; BAYO AKAMO, Ibadan
Former interim National Chairman of All Progressives Congress (APC), and a strong ally of President Bola Ahmed Tinubu, Chief Bisi Akande at the weekend, declared that the 1960 Constitution is the best for Nigeria.
Chief Akande said this on Saturday, while fielding questions from journalists as part of the activities lined up for his 85th birthday ceremony.
The APC leader maintained that there is the need for the National Assembly members to adopt the 1960 Constitution for Nigeria to move forward, adding, that the National Assembly should dump the 1999 Constitution written by the military leaders for the country to work.
“I will prefer the 1960 constitution for Nigeria, it is the best! For example, in the 1960 constitution, if you are a member of the national and state assembly, you are part time, you go to your work, politics wasn’t work then”, he said.
Chief Akande added, “Farmers go to the farm, lawyers go to their chambers, doctors go to their hospitals and when it is time for a meeting, they go to the meeting and they pay them sitting allowance, everybody knows that they are doing it in the interest of the public.”
The former Governor of Osun State emphasized that restructuring of Nigeria does not require much other than dumping the 1999 Constitution, adding that the 1999 constitution was not written by anybody, hence National Assembly must retrace its steps on the constitution.
Accusing the military of introducing money and lavish spending into the nation’s politics which are not helping the country, he said, “the military, because they wanted to stay permanently in power, they started using money to pay them (assembly) salary and everybody left their job to become a politician,”
“You leave your job where you all belong, then you become a politician, you have nothing to do, nothing to produce, then you want to be materialistic. You become fake because you have departed from good things to bad.
“Until you retrace your steps back, you can’t have it well. If you are talking about restructuring, you don’t need much, throw away this present constitution which is not written by anybody and embrace 1960 constitution, look at present day realities to adjust it.”
