Nobel laureate, Professor Wole Soyinka, and elder statesman, Mr. Fred Agbeyegbe, have urged a Federal High Court in Lagos to nullify the 1999 Constitution of the the Federal Republic of Nigeria. 

Soyinka and Agbeyegbe, in their submissions, argued that  the 1999 Constitution is a fraudulent document the military imposed on Nigerians, contending that the document lacked authenticity and could not be properly described as the people’s constitution.

They prayed the court for an order of mandamus compelling the Federal Government (the defendant) to replace the constitution with “a true constitution.”

Both Soyinka and Agbeyegbe are the surviving plaintiffs in the suit which originally had the late nonagenarian, Prince Tanimose Bankole-Oki (SAN) as the first plaintiff.

Bankole-Oki was however replaced by Agbeyegbe with the permission of the court after he died last year.

The other plaintiff in the matter, apart from Soyinka and Agbeyegbe, was the late Chief Odumegwu Ojukwu.

The presiding judge, Justice James Tsoho, struck out the name of Ojukwu from the case following an oral application made the plaintiffs’ lawyer, Mr. Tony Nnadi.

Nnadi said he would find out from the surviving plaintiffs whether or not another person would be approved to replace Ojukwu. Nnadi’s application was not objected to by lawyer to the Federal Government, Mr. Ituah Eigbe.  The judge thereafter struck out Ojukwu’s name and adjourned the matter

CarlosVent:

taking us forward or backward?

afam4eva:

So, which constitution are we going to be using until a new one is drafted?

afam4eva:

So, which constitution are we going to be using until a new one is drafted?

nakedall:

master of destruction GOOD morning.

afam4eva:

So, which constitution are we going to be using until a new one is drafted?

Kobojunkie:

Am I the only one who feels this man should SHUT UP already!

Kobojunkie:

Am I the only one who feels this man should SHUT UP already!

Knight1:

Well, I used to feel same way about Gani, when he died, i began to miss him. we must just understand that these guys aren't perfect despite what most people hold them to be. And to an extent, i agree with him. the 1999 constitution is technically "not constitutional" because it was not drafted by a people's government. Any constitution must be drafted by an assembly of ALL the people's representatives.
Plus, this is just a strategy of forcing an SNC.

logica:

So because the US constitution was drafted by a handful of cultists, Nigeria should do the same. Something tells me Wole Soyinka isn't the one out of ideas here.

Kobojunkie:

I would not compare Gani with Soyinka. Soyinka has mostly seemed to me a man who speaks when he is on the hurt side of issues. I mean the man's cries seem to change from year to year. And I don't think I will ever forget that this same was the man who was spokesman, for a time, for MEND.

Gani was a lawyer who went to the court on behalf of the people, and Nigeria as a whole. Soyinka, I may be wrong, seems more concerned about issues that pertain mostly to sects and groups, not Nigeria the country as a whole, in much of his ideas.

There is nothing absolutely nothing wrong with the way the constitution came to be. If we were to follow you claim that the Nigerian constitution was technically not drafted by the people's government, then what do we say of the American constitution, which was drafted by a couple of men, majority of them never really served in any government then and afterwards?
Please we need to stop playing around with the moronic and focus on that which should matter.

Honestly, if this man is all out of good ideas, he needs to stop!

Knight1:

@Kobo
I don't think you are correct. the only issue i think he has reacted to based on personal feelings is Bola Ige's case. As for the MEND, he wasn't a spokesman for them o. it was a time where MEND felt they needed someone who had integrity and was not bought and paid for by the FG that they got the man. REmember when Lagos Jetty was bombed and all 'em southwest were issuing empty warnings left and right, Twas Kongi who reasoned (quite correctly too) that the attack was on NIgeria and not the Yoruba NAtion.

kenis:

what would u say of a constution that would grants a bomber/bokoharamist bail after eating jeloff rice for some weeks/months.

What would you say for a constitution that dances with ppl that steal trillions of naira while jailing somebody dt stole goat.etc
the constitution is all fvcked,