This Day (Lagos)
3 January 2009
National Chairman, All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA), Chief Victor Umeh at the weekend, said President Musa Yar'adua should consider the preponderant view being expressed by many Nigerians for a new Constitution as part of the efforts to bequeath an enduring democracy.
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EVERY 4 YEARS A NEW CONSTITUTION. SAME AS WHEN THE MILITARY CAME TO POWER. SOON YOU HAVE NOTHING THAT MEANS ANYTHING TO THE 140 MILLION PEOPLE OF NIGERIA. WHEN WILL THE GROWNUPS COME TO POWER? THE CONSTITUTION IS THE BACKBONE OF A COUNTRY. SOMETHING THAT MUST NEVER BE CHANGE, EVERY TIME SOMEONE GETS A NEW IDEA AND WANTS TO CHANGE IT FOR THEY OWN SELVES, NOT FOR ALL OF THE PEOPLE OF NIGERIANS. I, AS AN AMERICAN FEEL VERY SORRY FOR ONE OF THE "COULD BE" A GREAT COUNTRY IN THE WORLD. "YOU MAKE LAWS ACCORDING TO THE CONSTITUTION NOT THE CONSTITUTION ACCORDING TO YOUR LAWS". TONY