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His plea comes barely 24 hours after The Patriots, a group led by Anyaoku, met with Tinubu at the Aso Rock Villa.

Anyaoku, who addressed State House correspondents after Friday’s meeting, begged the president to forward an executive bill to the National Assembly to legislate on a national referendum that will approve a draft for a ‘pluralistic constitution.’

He said that a 109-member constituent assembly should be mandated to produce the draft constitution to be subjected to a referendum.

But Kachikwu disagreed, arguing that the country does not need a new constitution when the old one has not been fully exhausted and can be amended where necessary.

He said, “This is what a lot of people from the old order always say. Our biggest problem is that we have not done enough with the current constitution available to us. There is so much we can do. Every year or in every legislative agenda, they always introduce constitutional amendments and in more cases than one, we have seen where the constitution has been amended.

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