APC backs Tinubu on 1999 constitution

Amidst apprehension of a planned nationwide protest, the All Progressives Congress has urged organisers of the protest to shelve its agitation to have President Bola Tinubu scrap the 1999 Constitution, describing it as a tall order.

Speaking in Abuja after a meeting held behind closed doors with the Forum of APC State Chairmen to discuss the modalities of the proposed protest, the National Secretary of the party, Senator Ajibola Basiru, said the renewed agitation to have the President dump the constitution he vowed to protect, would amount to a mission impossible.

According to Senator Basiru, President  Tinubu alone lacks the power to dump or alter the 1999 Constitution in any form.

Senator Basiru added that on an intellectual basis, the meeting of the National Working Committee of the party examined the fifteen charter of demands outlined by the organisers of the protest, and discovered that most of the issues raised there are not matters for protest, because they border on the issue of politics and amendments to the constitution.