Akande Faults Military Claims On Coup Plot
The Pioneer Chairman of the All Progressives Congress, (APC), Chief Adebisi Akande has faulted the claim by the military of consultation with some of its officers to effect a change of government in Nigeria.
Speaking with newsmen at the weekend in Iwo shortly after he presided over the 2017 Distinguished Role Model Award of The Wings Schools, Iwo in honour of Late Ben Adisa Akinola, Akande said the military was being economical with the truth.
According to him, it was absurd for the military to lay such a claim while the perpetrators are still walking freely adding that if actually something of such happened, the military would have acted professionally.
Akande who blamed the political and economic woes of the country on a lot of deficiencies in the Nigerian constitution noted that the 1999 constitution had created unwarranted challenges not only to Nigeria but to its federating components.
His words: “Nigeria constitution (1999) which serves as a platform for social economic inequality and now constitutes the major obstacle to peace among various generating country.
“Those who wrote the constitution did not realize that political denomination and subjugation breed revolt, community disharmony and national insecurity.
“The bad constitution of 1999 has now begun to stimulate demand for ethnic self determination and economic security otherwise being called “resource control” or “restructuring.
“Whatever name you call it, community disharmony is a burden on national security and it is dangerous for economic development and peace.
“What we are saying, for instance, is that the constitution which (according to 1999 census ) gave Lagos State (with 5,725,153 population) 20 local governments, also gave Kano State (with 5,810,494 population) 44 local government.
“The same constitution, which gave Anambra (with 2, 796,510 population) 21 local governments, also gave Jigawa (with 2, 875,559 population) 27 local governments.
“The constitution that can move Nigeria forward is the constitution that recognizes the culture of the people in relation to their occupation”.
He said no nation practicing federalism develops in a circumstance where all or larger percentage of existing power is being concentrated into a single hand as the case of unitary system of government.
Akande insisted that power must be properly distributed and devolved from the central to the federating units as being practiced in other countries of the world.
