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Friday, October 1st 2004 HOME | back to previous page Obasanjo seeks constitutional reforms to evolve national parties By Chesa Chesa Correspondent, Abuja   President Olusegun Obasanjo on Thursday called for urgent constitutional review that would evolve genuine national political parties in the country as he admitted that the existing ones were not �truly national�. Making the call at the launch of a book entitled Party Politics and Power Struggle in Nigeria written by former Deputy National Chairman of the ruling People�s Democratic Party (PDP),Alhaji Iro Abubakar Dan Musa, Obasanjo said �political hiccups of our society� had impeded efforts at building truly national parties. The book is a documentation of the author�s views on many issues in the country�s political life in the last 25 years. The president listed the impediments to include opportunism by politicians, corruption, indiscipline and lack of philosophical basis for political development. �In addition, one must highlight the series of military interventions that often terminated democratic political experiments in our country. On the whole, they have destroyed much more than they have built. It is refreshing to note that we are only beginning to get out of this embarrassing quagmire as we have not only conducted two successive elections but we are also generating the sort of internal discourses within political parties.� Acknowledging the advantages of multi-party system, Obasanjo said the reality of the moment showed that it would be counter-productive to continue funding some political parties that �only create nuisance value in the system. �I believe that an individual who cannot find accommodation within few political parties must have a different understanding of party politics in a democratic society, more so when political parties have no ideological differentiation�.         Copyright� 2004. All Rights Reserved. Independent Newspapers Limited Block5, Plot 7D, Wempco Road, Ogba, P.M.B. 21777, Ikeja, Lagos State, Nigeria. www.independentng.com e-mail: [email protected] Designed By Powered By DNet.

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