The founder of Citadel Global Community Church (formerly Latter Rain Assembly), Tunde Bakare, last Saturday said Nigeria must lay hold of the tripartite strategies of reconciliation, reconstitution, and reconstruction in order to reverse the trend of state failure.
Mr Bakare made the disclosure at a Democracy Day virtual dialogue titled \u201cRethinking the Nigerian State,\u201d put together by a group of Nigerians resident in Canada in commemoration of the country\u2019s 22nd year of return to democracy.
Nigeria\u2019s frameworks, Mr Bakare said, came under severe onslaught by reason of exposure to the twin forces of a corrupt political class and impulsive military, culminating in the Unification Decree of May 1966, abolishing Nigeria\u2019s federal structure.
\u201cThe Nigerian state tottered through six decades of instability, survived a civil war, and embarked on a series of failed democratic experiments and military interregna\u201d.
\u201cUpon the return to civil rule on May 29, 1999, the frameworks of state, including the democratic culture, the federal structure, and the institutions of public service delivery, had degenerated,\u201d he said.
Mr Bakare recommended the 1963 Republican Constitution as a model for the nation to pursue the ideals of egalitarianism, unity, truth, and justice with an emphasis on its recognition of devolution of power.
\u201cThe 1999 Constitution, crafted in an attempt to reconstitute these frameworks, was marred by numerous aberrations, including a false premise of \u201cWe the people,\u201d an array of ambiguities, and a cocktail of inconsistencies.\u201d
Mr Bakare noted that President Muhammadu Buhari\u2019s gesture of honouring M.K.O Abiola and Gani Fawehinmi in 2018 is an affirmation of an effort at redressing \u201ca sore aspect of our past.\u201d
The online conference had Akin Fadeyi, convener of the Corruption not in My Country Project, and Joseph Osuji , a professor at the Mount Royal University, Calgary, Canada, among its participants.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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