{"id":28619,"date":"2021-05-02T08:42:23","date_gmt":"2021-05-02T07:42:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.withinnigeria.com\/news\/?p=28619"},"modified":"2021-05-02T08:42:23","modified_gmt":"2021-05-02T07:42:23","slug":"agbakoba-nigerias-problems-are-beyond-amending-the-constitution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.withinnigeria.com\/news\/2021\/05\/02\/agbakoba-nigerias-problems-are-beyond-amending-the-constitution\/","title":{"rendered":"Agbakoba: Nigeria&#8217;s problems are beyond amending the constitution"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Former president of the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA), Olisa Agbakoba has stated that Nigeria&#8217;s problems are beyond amending the constitution.<\/p>\n<p>This was stated by the former NBA president while speaking at &#8216;The Platform&#8217;, the annual conversation organised by Covenant Christian Centre, on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>The senior advocate of Nigeria said having the best constitution under bad leaders would not change anything.<\/p>\n<p>He said Nigeria\u2019s problems lie in those implementing provisions of the constitution, and not the constitution itself.<\/p>\n<p>The national assembly is currently amending the 1999 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.withinnigeria.com\/news\/2021\/05\/02\/devolution-of-power-alone-cant-solve-nigerias-problems-says-olusegun-adeniyi\/\">constitution<\/a> to, among other things, provide for devolution of powers and true federalism.<\/p>\n<p>But Agbakoba argued that improving the state of things in Nigeria would also require the federal lawmakers to diminish their powers \u2014 which, he said, is unlikely.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cConstitution is merely the legal agreement, there is too much talk about the constitution, it is only a phrase. You can have the best constitution with the worst leaders and nothing would happen,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDevolution won\u2019t solve anything if we all abandon the governance of our local governments. It is all of this put together that makes a country strong, not a constitution.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA constitution will not change anything if you have the same actors. The second most powerful nation in the world is not democratic. It has brought seven hundred million people out of poverty. It has no constitution; it has only got nine men ruling it.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFor the national assembly to really sit down and decide to make Nigeria a great country, means that their power would be diminished. That is the problem. And they aren\u2019t about to do that.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere is an inherent problem with what we are today because we are confronting people who are uninterested in diminishing their powers.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The senior lawyer added that the devolution of power constitutes just a small aspect of Nigeria\u2019s problems which must be solved for the country to achieve its full potential.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhy is this great country, in spite of its natural resources and human endowment, at the bottom,\u201d he asked.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is the question that agitates me, how can we break it down, who will break it down? Where is the change going to come from? Where are we going to have the change and how, because I don\u2019t believe the national assembly can do it.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former president of the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA), Olisa Agbakoba has stated that Nigeria&#8217;s problems are beyond amending the constitution. 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