{"id":921384,"date":"2022-02-01T09:02:56","date_gmt":"2022-02-01T09:02:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/news\/2022\/02\/01\/those-pushing-for-polls-without-restructuring-political-criminals-gani-adams\/"},"modified":"2022-02-01T09:02:56","modified_gmt":"2022-02-01T09:02:56","slug":"those-pushing-for-polls-without-restructuring-political-criminals-gani-adams","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/02\/01\/those-pushing-for-polls-without-restructuring-political-criminals-gani-adams\/","title":{"rendered":"Those Pushing For Polls Without Restructuring, Political Criminals \u2013 Gani Adams"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<figure id=\"attachment_777811\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-777811\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-777811\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/Gani-Adams-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"Those Pushing For Polls Without Restructuring, Political Criminals \u2013 Gani Adams\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\"  \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-777811\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Gani Adams<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Chief Gani Adams, the Aare Onakakanfo of Yorubaland, has urged President Muhammadu Buhari to guarantee that the 1999 Constitution is changed before the general elections in 2023.<\/p>\n<p>The National Coordinator of the Oodua Peoples Congress, who also requested that Buhari restructure the country before the next general election, emphasized that the mission could be accomplished if the President so desired.<\/p>\n<p>On Monday, Adams told The PUNCH in Ile-Ife at the grand finale of this year\u2019s edition of the Oduduwa Festival that anyone pressing for an election with the country\u2019s present style of administration should be labeled a \u201cpolitical criminal.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>Also Read:\u00a0Restructuring, Only Way For Nigeria\u2019s Survival, Says Moghalu<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"td-adspot-title\">Advertisement<\/span><\/p>\n<p>He said, \u201cConstitution amendment should come before the 2023 general elections. I will neither dissuade them from holding the election nor criticise them because the vacuum must be filled in 2023. But for us to move forward as a country, we must restructure into regions.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf we don\u2019t do that, I strongly believe that no matter who is elected to that seat, he will not achieve anything with the current constitution. Immediately you vote him in, he will be careful to tamper with the constitution. Buhari is going now, he has a little time to correct the system from what it is today.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe should call the parliament and stakeholders to amend the Constitution to the model of 1960 and 1963 so that Nigeria can move forward.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gani Adams Chief Gani Adams, the Aare Onakakanfo of Yorubaland, has urged President Muhammadu Buhari to guarantee that the 1999 Constitution is changed before the general elections in 2023. The National Coordinator of the Oodua Peoples Congress, who also requested that Buhari restructure the country before the next general election, emphasized that the mission could [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[55],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-921384","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-headlines"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/921384","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=921384"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/921384\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=921384"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=921384"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=921384"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}