For the National Assembly to encourage Nigerians to submit proposals for the creation of 31 new states, when the current 36-State structure is becoming increasingly unsustainable is an indication that the ongoing constitution review may potentially end up as another jamboree as the previous exercises since 1999, Ejiofor Alike writes
When the President of the Senate, Senator Godswill Akpabio on February 14, 2024 constituted a 45-member Committee on Constitution Review chaired by the Deputy President of the Senate, Senator Jibrin Barau, many Nigerians believed that the federal lawmakers had learnt lessons from the previous constitution reviews that ended up as jamborees after gulping billions of naira of taxpayers’ money.
The Speaker of the House of Representatives, Hon. Tajudeen Abbas, also later inaugurated the 43-member committee at an inaugural ceremony and citizens’ engagement held on February 26, 2024 in Abuja and supported by Policy and Legal Advocacy Centre (PLAC) and the UK Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO).