The Minister of Labour and Employment, Chief Chris Ngige, yesterday, in Enugu, has stated that rotational Presidency will quell the Biafran agitation in the South East.
Ngige said this during a Town Hall Meeting held for political, religious, judicial and faith-based groups at the Nike-Lake Resort Hotel.
Ngige berated the Gen. Abudulsalami Abubakar regime that discarded the National Constitutional Conference crafted under late Gen. Sani Abacha which provided for rotational presidency
Ngige said: “Apart the First Republic when the Mid-Western State was created, all other states created were under the military era.
“The six geopolitical zone structure is not even in the 1999 Constitution. But the NCC recommendations under Abacha which I consider as excellent made provision for rotational presidency and residency rights.
“Late Abacha crafted a wonderful constitution but Gen. Abubakar back-tracked. Instead of using what Abacha did, he went and amended portions of the 1979 Constitution which is responsible for the country’s woos.”
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