'Nigerian Constitution Doesn't Need Amendment, It Needs To Be Overhauled' - SAN

A Senior Advocate of Nigeria (SAN), Wole Olanipekun, said that what Nigeria needs is not a constitutional amendment, rather, a constitution "overhaul".

Olanipekun stated this on Sunday, in Ekiti State during a scholarship presentation programme.

He said that the overhauling of the constitution would need to be preceded by a "preamble to the definition schedule".

He stated that the arms of government in the country "have to be redefined resituated and re-strategised for a new Nigeria".

Olanipekun said, “The news is everywhere and the propaganda has gone haywire that the National Assembly is amending the Constitution, as if what the Constitution needs is an amendment rather than a total overhaul, starting from the preamble to the definition schedule.

“All arms of government and government structures have to be redefined, resituated and re-strategised for a new Nigeria, which will bring about unity and faith, peace, and progress."

Speaking on the #EndSARS protest, he said that the key lesson from the protest was the need for an "honest" step to "reawaken and rehabilitate Nigeria".

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He said,  “Whatever might have been the outcome of EndSARS protest, the bitter takeaway there is that we must honestly, sincerely, dispassionately, unpretentiously take step to reawaken and rehabilitate Nigeria.

“The bitterness among ethnic nationalities is so deep, and we need genuine reconciliation and restructuring of the polity. That small sore has become cancerous and we need a radical surgery to extract it.”