Yakasai Blames Jonathan for Non-Implementation of 2014 Confab Report
POLITICS DIGEST- Elder statesman, Alhaji Tanko Yakasai, has blamed former President Goodluck Jonathan for not implementing the report of 2014 National Conference, saying the report has answers to some structural problems facing Nigeria.
He also vowed to support re-introduction of the 1963 constitution to replace the 1999 Constitution currently being practiced in the country.
Yakasai made this known in a virtual conference organised by Governance Index, and titled: “The Coronavirus pandemic, is it time to re-evaluate the political structure?”
The 94- year-old elder statesman said the current Constitution is not working and kicked against insinuation that the current arrangement favours the North.
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Yakasai further urged sponsors of restructuring to put their ideas in a “black and white paper” so that other people can reason along with them adding that he is not afraid of restructuring.
Yakasai said:” I am not afraid of restructuring, what am saying is that I want to know from the sponsors of this idea what we need to put down for Nigerians. I don’t see any reason to be afraid, I have never been afraid of an idea that I find does not tally with mine. I will propose mine, and if something is wrong, is not working, it is for him to articulate a substitute in place of the one that is not working.
“Nigeria has been operating this federation for more than 60 years even before we gained independence. Now, if we can operate something for 60 years and that thing is not working, is it not fair to tell the people that this is why we feel the thing is not working?
