Posting on X, the former lawmaker wrote: 'Tempering with or Changing the National Anthem or National pledge of Nigeria should be done after wider public consultation and should be factored in the process of constitutional amendments. 'Or would be misinterpreted as a surreptitious attempt to dissolve the country by altering one of its most important pillars.' On Thursday, the House of Representatives passed a bill to adopt the old National Anthem .
reports that the anthem was used from independence in 1960 until 1978, when the present anthem, 'Arise, O Compatriots,' was adopted in 1978.
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