The National Democratic Coalition (NADECO) has lent its support for agitations for return to the 1960 or 1963 Constitution.
In separate letters to the United Nations and President Muhammadu Buhari, it noted that both constitutions, now abrogated, were what Nigerians subscribed to at independence and when the country became a Republic.
It argued that the 1999 constitution was imposed by the military on Nigerians to fraudulently deprive them of their sovereignty, lands, resources and rights.
NADECO General Secretary Ayo Opadokun, in the letter, said NADECO’s demand is because of the alleged “nepotic, ill-treatment, inequitable and unjust nature” with which the president and his government had governed Nigeria.
“There have been growing demands by several southern groups for constitutional reform following rising insecurity and the president’s perceived mismanagement of the country’s diversity, particularly his view on the solution to the farmers – herders’ crisis.”
According to NADECO, the South was agitated because of unresolved issues relating to inequitable distribution of the country’s resources.
