By Akoma Chinweoke

The president of  the  South-east, South-south Professional Association,  Mr. Emeka Ugwu-Oju, says  the current  move to amend some parts of the  country’s constitution by  the President Goodluck  Jonathan-led administration would not take the country far, pointing out that what is needed is a complete overhauling of  the 1999 constitution. Ugwu-Oju however called on the president  to propose a constitutional conference that would  find support from the generality of Nigerians as a credible alternative for the re-engineering of  a malfunctioning  nation.

He  warned that Nigeria  may disintegrate by  2015 if the constituent nationalities are not provided opportunity to  recreate the Nigeria of their dream.

According to him, “ the military inspired changes created a centralized unitary system of government masquerading as a federal system. The clamour for more states, rise of organizations such as Maitatsine and Boko Haram, agitators like MEND, MASSOB, OPC and other para-political  organisations are indicative of the fragility of  the Nigerian state.