criminal icon and elder statesman, chief Afe Babalola, says an intervening time authorities have to be hooked up at the expiration of the President, predominant popular Muhammadu Buhari (retd.)’s tenure in 2023. Babalola informed a information conference in Ado-Ekiti on Monday that the period in-between government should be in workplace for six months to chart a brand new path for Nigeria. He careworn that the 2023 elections must be suspended until Nigeria has “a brand new-look peoples’ constitution which must offer for element-time legislators and the non-government presidentâ€. Babalola stated that participants of the interim authorities need to be drawn from all dwelling former presidents and vice-presidents; a few decided on ministers and governors and delegates of prominent professional associations.The expert institutions may be the Nigeria medical association, Nigeria Bar affiliation, Nigeria Labour Congress, Nigeria Union of journalists, academic staff Union of Universities and Civil Society companies. The elder statesman stated that such delegates have to be elected on 0 party bases. He said it turned into regrettable that the modern 1999 constitution, foisted on Nigerians via the military changed into not in song with realities of the day.“The equal charter has made politics come to be now not handiest very attractive but the best beneficial enterprise in Nigeria todayWhat this means is that any election that holds beneath the existing situation will end up producing transactional and recycled leaders, with out a capability to turn things around,’’ he said. The college owner counseled that the new charter which ought to be coordinated with the aid of the interim government need to spell out regulations and regulations on stepped forward qualifications of those contesting elections. He added that the new charter must offer for element-time legislators and not complete-time legislators, considering the attendant waste of assets. “the new charter need to also provide that there shall be no income, but sitting allowances best for lawmakers. “It have to offer a real federal system of presidency, rather than the expensive presidential machine of government. I propose a parliamentary device of government, with a unicameral legislature. “the brand new constitution must also offer a frame at the neighborhood, kingdom and federal degrees to screen all aspirants on the resources of their wealth and approach of livelihood, a criminal report which incorporates pending fits,’’ he stated.The prison luminary delivered that any man or woman that might come to be the president of Nigeria have to not be older than 60 years of age and must have a varsity diploma. (NAN)