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NC Front leaders to make People’s Constitution of Nigeria available Dec.
By Modupe Shodeinde
Leaders of the National Consultative Forum, working as members of the Constitution Drafting/Coordinating Committee of the People’s Constitutional Dialogue, on Tuesday, said a draft of the proposed people’s constitution would be ready by December 2021.
Members of the NCF include a former Speaker of the House of Representatives, Ghali Na’aba, a prof. of Economics, Pat Utomi; prominent Nigerian lawyers and civil rights activists, Femi Falana (SAN), Olisa Agbakoba, and Mike Ozekhome Awolowo Dosumu and Hakeem Baba-Ahmed among others.
In a statement on signed by the Head, Public Affairs Bureau of the NC Front, Dr. Tanko Yunusa, in Abuja, it stated that the NCF leaders launched the People’s Constitution Dialogue on Tuesday to rescue Nigeria from the brink civil anarchy.
The statement read in part, “The Constitution Drafting Committee and Coordinating Committee of the People’s Constitutional Dialogue initiated by Leaders of Conscience under the auspices of the National Consultative Front, to save and rescue Nigeria from the precipice and brink of nationwide insecurity and ethnic/civil anarchy was launched today in Nigeria
“The ceremony, which held both physically and virtually in the light of the second wave of COVID-19 pandemic ravaging the world was flagged off by NC Front Co-Chairpersons, Rt Hon Ghali Umar Na’aba and Prof Pat Utomi, who charged the Committee to work assiduously to make the Draft People’s Constitution of Nigeria available by December 2021.”
