FEATURES OF 1963 REPUBLICAN CONSTITUTION

  1. Provided for the office of president as the Head of State and Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces to replace the Queen of England.
  2. The president replaced Governor-General.
  3. The Office of the president was to be elected.
  4. Abolished the judicial service commission.
  5. Abolished the privy council in London and made the Supreme Court of Nigeria the Highest Court.
  6. In the absence of the president, the constitution empowers the senate president to act on his behalf.
  7. Retained the parliamentary and federal structure of the 1960 constitution.
  8. The entrenchment of Fundamental human rights.

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