The National Coordinator of Oodua People\u2019s Congress (OPC), Chief Gani Adams, has urged the National Assembly to amend the Constitution to meet the people\u2019s aspirations and resolve constitutional imbalance.
\nAdams told newsmen, yesterday, in Lagos, that constitution amendment would be the opportunity to redress constitutional problems and the issue of devolution of power.
\n\u201cThe National Assembly should not miss the golden opportunity to save Nigeria from the core issues of constitutional problems and the issue of devolution of power.
\n\u201cDevolution of power to state is not what we are talking about; it is the devolution of power to the six or nine regions in Nigeria. It is the only way to go.
\n\u201cDevolution of power to the regions or regional government is the only way to save the country, and in the interest of peace, we need to find a way of going back to regional governance.
\n\u201cWe cannot guarantee peace in Nigeria except we go by the way of people\u2019s wishes and aspirations for regional government,\u2019\u2019 he said.
\nAdams said that people could not be silenced through intimidation from the government but that government should do the right thing when there is time.
\n\u201cThis government still has about five months before campaigning for re-election, so it needs to do something for a peaceful nation. There are lots of injustice; injustice in the political structure and constitution.
\n\u201cThe present 1999 Constitution that we are operating is foisted on us by the military; we are not part of it as it is being claimed. It is not a Federal Republic Constitution.
\n\u201cDelayed justice is denial and the constitution is not in the in the billings of the electorate. People are hungry and also angry. People have noticed the insincerity in government.
\n\u201cPeople cannot be silenced, on the insincerity of government, it must do the right thing now to have the people\u2019s confidence,\u2019\u2019 Adams noted.
\nHe said that power must return to the people, adding that no voice could be silenced if there were imbalances in the government.
\n\u201cHow long does government think they can silence the people? We have a population of about 180 million, and if we want appropriate figure we are about 220 million.
\n\u201cWhat is the strength of the government against the will of the people, the government can\u2019t continue to do its wish because the world is now a global village.
\n\u201cThe only way for government to be in the good records of the people is listen to their wish and so will we have a peaceful nation,\u2019\u2019 the national leader of the Pan-Yoruba socio-cultural group said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The National Coordinator of Oodua People\u2019s Congress (OPC), Chief Gani Adams, has urged the National Assembly to amend the Constitution to meet the people\u2019s aspirations and resolve constitutional imbalance. Adams told newsmen, yesterday, in Lagos, that constitution amendment would be the opportunity to redress constitutional problems and the issue of devolution of power. \u201cThe National […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":158415,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[76,26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-158411","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-front-pix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetidenewsonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158411","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetidenewsonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetidenewsonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetidenewsonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetidenewsonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=158411"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetidenewsonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158411\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetidenewsonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/158415"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetidenewsonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=158411"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetidenewsonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=158411"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetidenewsonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=158411"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}