NADECO Urges Tinubu to Return Nigeria to Federal Constitutional Governance
The National Democratic Coalition (NADECO) in In commemoration of the 30th anniversary of June 12, has called on President Bola Ahmed Tinubu to return the country to the path of Federal Constitutional Governance upon which Nigeria secured her independence.
The group, which was in the forefront for the return of democracy in 1999 after the election of late MKO Abiola was annulled in 1993, said the constitution was spectacular and visible developments by the regional and national governments were recorded during the period.
NADECO in its official statement released Sunday ahead of today’s June 12 celebration, also urged Tinibu to implement the report of Mallam Nasir El Rufai panel which recommended that All Progressives Congress (APC) should fulfill its manifesto and promise of returning Nigeria to Federal Constitutional Governance.
“NADECO therefore will expect President Tinubu to return Nigeria to the path of Federal Constitutional Governance upon which Nigeria secured her independence and which most Ethnic Nationalities leaders, Civil Society bodies, opinion leaders, e.t.c had vigorously campaigned for in the last 30 years.
“This is because while we practiced federal constitution, there were spectacular and visible developments, by the regional and national governments. The economic policies lifted the people out of poverty and we were the envy of the black world and even our colonisers, Great Britain.
“As an activist and pro-democracy leader, there can be no excuse to retain this unsustainable system that negates all known transparent, technological and value-driven, modern governance. President Tinubu perhaps was brought to government by providence, nay by God, to return Nigeria to the path of sanity where it would be able to establish a productive government that lifts its people out of prolonged misery and poverty, modernise its education system, and organise its agricultural endowments to meet the value chain necessities required in the modern world where agriculture is organised as a business.
“NADECO therefore demands President Tinubu to capture accurately the national mood and demands from his government to implement the report of Mallam Nasir El Rufai panel which recommended that APC should fulfill its manifesto promise of returning Nigeria to Federal Constitutional Governance.
“While a return to Federal Constitutional Governance will not immediately solve all the many infractions imposed by the military on our governance, most of the aberrations at the national and sub-national levels can be taken on board for resolutions. For example, the fear that states created whimsically to satisfy the selfish interest of the military strongmen and their civilian friends and confederates will be reverted,” the group stated.
