REPUBLICAN CONSTITUTION OF 1979*

 *After the military took over in 1966 and the 1963 constitution was set aside, there were many steps taken towards the drafting of a new constitution for Nigeria. The Aguiyi Ironsi review set up a new constitutional committee headed by F. R. A. *Williams, but the committee did not do much before the regime was terminated.*

*Yakubu Gowon, who* *followed Aguiyi Ironsi, set up a constitutional conference and took part in the drafting of a constitutional program in Aburi, Ghana which was never implemented. It was the Murtala-Obasanjo regime which came in 1975 that established a 49-member constitution-drafting committee (CDC) that same year, chaired by F. R. A. Williams.*

*The constitution was completed in 1976 and reviewed by a 230-member constituent assembly, headed by Justice Udo* *Udoma, and it worked from 1977 to 1978. The Supreme Military Council carried out final amendments and promulgated the new* *constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria into a decree to come into effect from 1st October, 1979.*

In the jungle of heart I reaide

Longing for a peace pair, to Pierce

My heart, that has never bade a warm heart

Who will I make my heart ruler. 

Who will be my heart ruler? 

And a voice to echo, when going like a dust dust, 

Who will I compare to my summer day? 

Who will be my fire during the winter's day? 

Who to me will be an immortal? 

Who will be in my shoe, money and heart? 

Who will be my live driver without rival? 

In befitting cars more than Benz

Who will amount of ink that have been penned?

The amount of rythm that have been sung

Oh! Amount of beat that have been danced

Can't portrays my heart to her. 

Who is ready to go, to my heart earth? 

Then Shakespeare shall proclaim

"When my love swears that she is made of truth"

Our honey in the moon will then be fixed  in a rock named Àsó

©Striving pen

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