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on Sunday after a long-term battle with prostate cancer. A family source said he died at the age of 94.
Shortly after, he became a senior lecturer at Holborn College of Law, London. Nwabueze returned to Nigeria and took a lecturing job at the University of Nigeria, Nsukka until 1970. The military government began the process by appointing a committee to draft a new constitution, a legal blueprint for a fresh beginning.Nwabueze was a leading member of the Constitutional Drafting Committee , which was chaired by the late Rotimi Williams,
“That’s the idea of federalism which was observed in the 1960 and 1963 constitutions. We abandoned it in 1979 and went for a unitary constitution, one constitution for the federal government and none for the state governments. That was a fundamental departure from the principles of federalism,” he said in an interview with“It is a unitary constitution, more or less in the devolution of powers. The federal government is all-powerful. Its powers are all-encompassing.
“It turned out that putting too much power at the centre was an invitation for disunity. Yes, that was what happened—disunity. Struggle for control at the centre with all that power led to disunity, and that is what landed us to where we are today.”Nwabueze also participated in the drafting of constitutions for other African countries.
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