# CAMPAIGN FOR REFERENDUM AND NOT VIOLENT AGITATIONS! [NO.2]. 10-01-22.
CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT HAS NEVER WORKED, REFERENDUM WILL!- Dr David Olufon.
Just like the 2014 National Conference recommendations for true federalism by 492 selected delegates from the Six Geo-Political Zones of Nigeria ended up in Aso Villa trash bins, so were all Constitutional Amendments documents formulated and compiled to perfect intentional pecuniary gains from the 5th through to the 9th National Assemblies, have turned out to be political exercise in futility!
The National Assembly on assumption of office 1999 discovered ambiguities, inadequacies, irregularities/shortcomings/lacunas which should have prompted quick intervention during the 4th and 5th Assemblies of ex-President Obasanjo's tenure, but delayed the evil day which has eventually reared its ugly head in the form of demands for diverse kinds of RESTRUCTURING, like DEVOLUTION OF POWER from the CENTRE to federating States, RESOURCE CONTROL by Crude Oil producing States, reversal to REGIONAL system of the 1960s and even - SECESSION!
The faulty military document created the stampede of new breed of mercenary "do-or-die" politicians between 1999 and 2019, and the desperados were quick to jump ship from one Party to another as long as they would gain relevance in the band wagon of money-monger gangs and no remarkable achievement was recorded in the direction of drafting/crafting a new Constitution!
In fact, the last exercise of the un-amendable jig-saw puzzles in the 1999 Constitution during ex-President Jonathan's administration was thrown into the garbage bin because of selfish desires of the legislators to whittle down and eventually USURP EXECUTIVE AND PRESIDENTIAL POWERS!
Although the process of amendment of the 1999 Military Constitution as stipulated in SECTION 9 is deliberately made cumbersome through a vote of two-third majority at the NASS and simultaneously in all State Assemblies, to make it absolutely impossible. BUT with a simple YES OR NO plebiscite through POPULAR REFERENDUM, ALL CONTENTIOUS ISSUES WILL BE AMICABLY RESOLVED!
[Please join the campaign for REFERENDUM AND AVOID VIOLENT AGITATIONS! Share and look forward to the NO. 3 Edition in the coming days!].
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