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“The group of ’49 Wise Men’ brought together in 1978 by General [Olusegun] Obasanjo to write a new constitution under the chairmanship of Justice Udo Udoma did not have military personnel as members or any input by the military.
“The Draft Constitution which they produced was debated by an elected constituent assembly under the chairmanship of Chief Rotimi Williams.
“Again there were no military members who participated in the deliberations of the elected constituent assembly”, He said.
According to Mr Sani, it was the outcome of the debates that was promulgated into the 1979 Constitution under which those who were seen as the beacons of democracy in Nigeria contested for elected positions in 1979.