Peoples Gazette
Legal icon and elder statesman, Afe Babalola, has stressed that the 2023 elections should be suspended to avoid electing the same current crop of incompetent leaders.
Mr Babalola, during a news conference in Ado-Ekiti, said it was regrettable that the current 1999 Constitution, foisted on Nigerians by the military was no longer in tune with realities of the day.
“What this means is that any election that holds under the present scenario will end up producing transactional and recycled leaders, with no ability to turn things around,’’ he said.
He said the elections should be suspended until Nigeria has “a new-look peoples’ constitution which should provide for part-time legislators and non-executive president’’.
Mr Babalola suggested that an interim government should replace the current administration in 2023, at the expiration of President Muhammadu Buhari’s tenure.
He recommended that members of the interim government should be drawn from…
