A former Head of State, Gen. Abdulsalami Abubakar (retd.), has dismissed as false the long-standing claim that Nigeria’s 1999 Constitution was written by the Military.
He insisted that close to 95 per cent of the document was lifted from the 1979 Constitution, a text drafted by 49 civilian legal experts with no soldiers involved.
Abdulsalami disclosed that the decision to adopt the 1979 Constitution, rather than General Sani Abacha’s unpopular 1995 Draft Constitution, came to him as a welcome relief after a 25-member committee he set up found that Nigerians nationwide, at home and in the diaspora, had overwhelmingly rejected the Abacha-era document.
The revelations are contained in Chapter 23 of Abubakar’s 264-page, 27-chapter autobiography titled ‘Call of Duty,’ obtained by our correspondent on Saturday at the public presentation of the book at the Aso Rock Villa, Abuja.
The presentation was held to mark the former Head of State’s 84th
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