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Senate Minority Leader, Enyinnaya Abaribe, has blamed the recent calls for restructuring and agitations for secession on the arbitrariness of the All Progressives Congress (APC) government, led by President Muhammadu Buhari.
Abaribe stated this yesterday in Awka, Anambra State, while addressing lawyers during the second day of the 25th Law Week of the Awka branch of the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA).
The lawmaker who spoke on the topic: âExecutive Lawlessness in Nigeriaâs Pseudo-federalist Geo-polity: Shouldnât Nigeria Restructure Her Structureâ, said there were several cases of executive lawlessness on the part of the federal government.
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A Senior Advocate of Nigeria (SAN), Chief Mike Ozekhome, yesterday stated that Nigeria is showing all signs of a failed state.
Ozekhome also faulted the call by 17 southern governors for a constitutional conference, saying the call for a new conference was unnecessary, especially considering that the recommendation of the one held in 2014 had not been implemented.
He said: “I was at the 2014 National Conference headed by late Justice Idris Kutigi, and the over 200 recommendations we made at that conference was yet to be touched.
“The conference consisted of 492 Nigerians drawn from all strata, and the report has never been touched by this government, even with a 10 foot pole. So, when I heard the 17 southern governors talking about another conference… I knew they mean well for the country, but we do not need another dialogue.”
Human rights lawyer, Chief Mike Ozekhome, SAN, has faulted the call by the 17 southern governors for a constitutional conference to resolve nagging issues about Nigeria, arguing that another constitutional conference was unnecessary. Delivering the keynote address at the 25th Law Week of the Awka branch of Nigerian Bar Association (NBA),.The Advocate
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Constitutional lawyer and human rights activist, Barr. Mike Ozekhome, has faulted the call by 17 southern governors for a constitutional conference to resolve issues in Nigeria, saying it is unnecessary.
Ozekhome said this in Awka, the Anambra State capital, as a keynote speaker at the 25th Law Week of the Awka branch of the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA).
Speaking on the topic: ‘Legal profession in a lawless society’, Ozekhome said the call for a new conference is unnecessary, especially considering that the recommendation of the one held in 2014 has not been implemented.
He said, “I was at the 2014 national conference headed by late Justice Idris Kutigi, and the over 200 recommendation we made at that conference is yet to be touched.