NewsBode George Blasts Remi Tinubu; Says Senate’s Constitution Review Prejudiced

Bode George Blasts Remi Tinubu; Says Senate’s Constitution Review Prejudiced

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BEVERLY HILLS, May 31, (THEWILL) – Former Deputy National Chairman of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP), Chief Olabode George, has said that the 1999 Constitution needed total overhauling, rather than a review as being contemplated by the Senate.

George spoke his mind in an open letter to the Senate President on Monday

However, the former Military Governor of Ondo State, also, took a swipe at the Senate Constitutional Review Committee’s sitting in Lagos last week.

He said: “It was without any inkling of democratic seriousness, totally devoid of any sense of fairness, indifferent to the equitable pursuit of justice.

“The Lagos public hearing of the Constitutional Review Committee was wrong-footed ab initio. There was nothing genuine or sincere about the mode of presentation. There was no attempt to widen the pool of contributions or give the public hearing any semblance of popular input.

“The Chairperson of the Lagos hearing, Senator Remi Tinubu, typified the narrow, restrictive nature of the Committee. She was overbearing, uppity, vain, even truculent in her engagement with contributors.

“Many people were deliberately denied the openness of democratic contributions. The hearing was stage-managed, anchored in prejudice, framed in puppeteering identification. Alternative views were cast aside, flung into the pits. This is not right. This is not just.

“It is obvious that the Committee is not interested in true and thorough representation of the will of the Nigerian people. It appears to be working with a script towards a predetermined end.”

According to him, the structures of the present Constitution were so biased, flawed and mangled with inequities, that a mere review would not be sufficient to correct the glaring wrongs afflicting the Nigerian state.

George said: “The unanimous position of the Nigerian people is the total overhaul of the present Constitution. Nothing else will do. A genuine juncture of remedy will be to revisit the report of the 2014 Constitutional Conference, which has been generally applauded for the sweeping breadth of its equity and democratic balance in rectifying the prejudicial and unworkable structures that are on the ground now.

“As a stakeholder in the Nigerian project and as someone who is sworn to the unity of the Nigerian state, I believe that our nation can emerge stronger and better only when all the component units that make up our nation have a sense of belongingness and general accommodation, regardless of tribe or sectarian belief, when everyone is treated equally without ethnic bias, when merit is the sole determinant of public positions. This can only be achieved with a people’s Constitution. This is indeed what we should work for rather than the charade and the present jamboree that is chaired by Senator Ovie Omo-Agege.

“Enough of this false and misleading engagement; let’s renew our nation through the pursuit of the truth and the resolve on the fairness doctrine. Therein resides the national salvation.”

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AYO ESAN, has been actively reporting and analyzing political events for different newspapers for over 18 years. He has also successfully covered national and state elections in Nigeria since the inception of this democracy in 1999.

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