A former Secretary-General of Commonwealth, Chief Emeka Anyoku and one-time Foreign Affairs Minister, Gen. Ike Nwachukwu Rtd, have reiterated the call for restructuring and constitution review to address the challenges facing the country.

The duo made the call during the “14th Chief Emeka Anyaoku Lecture Series On Good Governance” held in Enugu on Tuesday.

The event was organised by the Youths Affair International with the theme “Imperative Of Good Governance In Nigeria”.

Speaking at the event, Nwachukwu said he had long been advocating for the restructuring of Nigeria to become a proper federation, allowing State autonomy and bringing governance closer to the people.

Nwachukwu, who is the Chairman at the event, added that in doing so, it would allow states access to the mineral, natural and human resources for their development.

He expressed the need for Nigeria to have a truly People’s Constitution made by its ethnic nationalities and interest groups.

The one-time minister emphasised that the 1999 Constitution restrained development and harmonious co-existence of the Nigerian peoples.

According to him, the challenges we face in leadership and governance have often impeded our journey toward sustainable development.

Aligning himself with Nwachukwu on good governance system in Nigeria, Anyaoku said he had consistently advocated for a genuine democratic constitution in Nigeria that addressed the country’s pluralism.

He added that the constitution Nigeria had at moment, the 1999 Constitution, as amended, did not address the country’s pluralism.

The nonagenarian, however, stressed that good governance was possible in Nigeria only if the fundamental which was the constitution allowed and encouraged good governance.

On the contrary, the former Foreign Affairs Minister and Chief of Staff to President Muhammadu Buhari, Prof. Ibrahim Gambari, said attention should be given to constitutionalism which spread through three arms of government and played by the Rule of Law.

Gambari, in Keynote Speech, said, “We must basically agreed on way forward not for the North Central, Northeast , North West or South West but all of us together as many countries had managed their diversities.

“There is no perfect constitution anywhere in the world but through political education, mutual respect commitment to the rule of law that constitutions were meant to work for common good and purposes of curtailing excesses in exercise of power,” he said.

Mbah, in a remark, said that good intentions alone did not translate to good leadership but leadership that centred on the people.