Activist, Farotimi, Says Nigeria Is Beyond Redemption

By Akinwale Kasali

Dele Farotimi, Constitutional Lawyer and Human Rights Activist, has said that Nigeria cannot be redeemed from its many reoccurring problems with the set of leaders currently at the helms of affairs of the nation.

Farotimi said the set of leaders in the country are bent on draining the Nigerian State.

He said this on SaharaTV where he was a guest.

The vocal Activist said that Nigerian political leaders are enablers to foreign powers for the subjugation of the Nigerian interest.

In his words, “We need to really ask ourselves serious questions and the Nigerian interest is almost all we have subjugated beneath foreign interest by those who purport to rule the Nigerian people. So it is not about the exertion of powers by these foreign bodies but it is the willingness of those who rule Nigeria to submit the sovereignty of our country and subsume it beneath foreign interest.

“It is foolhardy for anyone to think that sitting down and waiting for another election cycle with a Yakubu as INEC chairman will bring about any solution to our problems as a nation. In fact I’m not even sure if the path to an electoral revolution would be made any easier.

“In the coming weeks and months as the hardship bites harder and we have nowhere to turn to, we have to come to that solitary fact that we are the victims and the division amongst us must stop if we truly want to have a country to call our own.

“Those of us who believe that the 1999 constitution is a fraud and should be done away with and that we should revert to a regional system a parliamentary system that being the last negotiated agreement by the Nigerian Peoples amongst themselves. What we have today as the constitution has been destroyed and that is why we are seeing all of these shenanigans in our land. This constitution has failed us and will fail us again and again until there’s a total change’

“The calls for the reintroduction of the 1963 constitution by several other people including myself has been met with brick walls because some persons are benefitting from the flaws of the 1999 constitution which was forced on us by the then military government of General Abdulsalam Abubakar”.

Farotimi stressed that for us to get it right as a nation and in earnest, electoral recycles should be put aside, rather, Nigerians should demand for a better nation.

“For Nigeria to get it right and get it right as quickly as we can, we cannot keep waiting for electoral cycles to come before we start making demands for a better Nigeria. We must do it and do it now if we are to make any meaningful progress as a nation”, he stated.