Nigeria: APGA Opposes Constitution Amendment

5 October 2008

Onitsha — All Progressives Peoples Grand Alliance (APGA) has asked for a fresh federal constitution and said it was opposed to the proposed amendment of the 1999 Constitution by the National Assembly.

The party's National chairman, Chief Victor Umeh, who made the party's position known to THISDAY in Onitsha, at the weekend said, "it is not possible for the country to practice full blown democracy with a military constitution, more so when it is known that all the problems bedeviling Nigeria 's democracy presently are rooted in the 1999 Constitution.

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