Recently appearing as a guest on the Sunrise Show on Channels Television, where he spoke on Nigeria’s “orientation issues,” popular Nigerian comedian Ali Baba has stated that the Nigerian constitution is ‘not actually a constitution.’ which he stressed was a “big problem” and something that can’t be ignored but needs to be vigorously addressed.
He said: “Our constitution is the biggest problem we have now; it’s an anomaly, it’s not actually a constitution; it’s something that some people drafted, and got some lawyers to knock it together because the constitution doesn’t speak to the growth and national development of our country.”
He spoke about the necessity for states to generate their own revenue, “The truth is if you want this country to grow, let each state generate its own revenue. The Federal Government can assist them if they want to but the funds and revenue that come from certain states should not be shared with every other person,”
The comic equally expressed his view that some states were created just to appease some military officers saying;
“Oh, this guy is a senior military officer, he comes from this area, we can’t give him a state now, let’s just create a state and take care of those people. Or the issue of we want to create four states in the north, let’s just balance it with some states in the south so that it will look deliberate because some of the states that were created needed to be local governments,”
