An elder statesman and a retired university lecturer who majored in Mathematics, Professor Peter Lassa, has stressed the need for a new constitution in the country, as all Nigerian Constitutions, including the present one, are ambiguous.
Lassa added that these ambiguities pose problems for the average educated person, who may not be learned in law, to interpret.
Briefing journalists yesterday at the Nigeria Union of Journalists (NUJ) Secretariat of the Press Council, Jos, Plateau State, the retired professor, who said he is neither a politician nor belongs to any political party, also discussed local government autonomy.
On state governors as Chief Security Officers of their states according to the 1999 constitution, as amended, referring to Section 212, he said the governors are right in insisting that they are mere figureheads.
According to Lassa, though Section 215 of the 1999 constitution confers on state governors the…
Source: Guardian Newspaper
