At all costs, I resisted the temptation of flowing another topic on today’s edition rather than the back and forth between the state governors through their proxy, the state houses of assembly and the National Assembly over the ongoing amendment to the 1999 Constitution (as amended). The topic suffered a necessary delay last week due to my fancy for the sentencing of a former adviser to the immediate-past US president, Donald Trump, Steve Bannon, for contempt of Congress after defying a subpoena from the House Committee investigating the January 6, 2021, Capitol attack.
My immediate reaction to the imbroglio when it was brought to the public was that the major priority of President Muhammadu Buhari and by extension the National Assembly in the ongoing amendment is an area governors have for some reason protected very jealously and are not willing to let go of. Even the outgoing governors are confident of installing their ‘puppets’ and for that reason are still very…
