As difficult as it may seem, the means of making ethnic champions like MEND, MASSOB, ACF, OPC etc to keep silent and embrace nationalism is very easy to implement. There are two major ways of ensuring this;

1: National Referendum (NR):
A NR that does not have deceitful clauses should be organized for members of the diverse ethnic groups in Nigeria to choose to remain or leave. This must be organized for everyone at a voting age at home and abroad to partake.

If this is properly organized, I can assure you that you will be very surprised that most ethnic groups will choose to stay irrespective of the seeming division in the country. This will efficiently shut down the rise of criminals that cover themselves in the cloaks of ethnic redemption.

However, if an ethnic group decides to walk, it is very important to let them go. This is because there needs to be agreement for peace to reign, and there needs to be peace for progress to be achieved. Nigeria is too blessed with diverse human and natural resources that can see her rise in any situation. Peace and patriotism is a prerequisite for that.

2: Con Federalism:
A confederal system of government allows for several independent nations to exist under one central government. The component nations are stronger than the central government. If a referendum is scary to Nigerians, a confederal system will be a viable option. This is because groups like MEND, MASSOB, OPC, ACF etc will have control of their nations, but will still remain in a Nigerian union. They will contribute little to the central government and will support other component nations if need be. CANADA is practicing this system. This system will ensure that no group can lord over other groups. It will make the ethnic and religious based struggle for the central government unattractive, thereby increasing focus on regional development.

The system noted above is good for a nation like Nigeria where so much strife and suspicion exist between the ethnic groups in the nation. Most importantly, this system will ensure that no group can blame anyone for their misfortunes, like MEND is doing. Moreover, governments will be close to their people, and the brunt of the people can be felt very well by under-performing politicians.

With this system, it will be delusional for anyone to come up with an idea to get out of the union. If they can't develop themselves in a confederal union, how can they develop themselves independently?

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Justcash:
As difficult as it may seem, the means of making ethnic champions like MEND, MASSOB, ACF, OPC etc to keep silent and embrace nationalism is very easy to implement. There are two major ways of ensuring this;

1: National Referendum (NR):
A NR that does not have deceitful clauses should be organized for members of the diverse ethnic groups in Nigeria to choose to remain or leave. This must be organized for everyone at a voting age at home and abroad to partake.

If this is properly organized, I can assure you that you will be very surprised that most ethnic groups will choose to stay irrespective of the seeming division in the country. This will efficiently shut down the rise of criminals that cover themselves in the cloaks of ethnic redemption.

However, if an ethnic group decides to walk, it is very important to let them go. This is because there needs to be agreement for peace to reign, and there needs to be peace for progress to be achieved. Nigeria is too blessed with diverse human and natural resources that can see her rise in any situation. Peace and patriotism is a prerequisite for that.

2: Con Federalism:
A confederal system of government allows for several independent nations to exist under one central government. The component nations are stronger than the central government. If a referendum is scary to Nigerians, a confederal system will be a viable option. This is because groups like MEND, MASSOB, OPC, ACF etc will have control of their nations, but will still remain in a Nigerian union. They will contribute little to the central government and will support other component nations if need be. CANADA is practicing this system. This system will ensure that no group can lord over other groups. It will make the ethnic and religious based struggle for the central government unattractive, thereby increasing focus on regional development.

The system noted above is good for a nation like Nigeria where so much strife and suspicion exist between the ethnic groups in the nation. Most importantly, this system will ensure that no group can blame anyone for their misfortunes, like MEND is doing. Moreover, governments will be close to their people, and the brunt of the people can be felt very well by under-performing politicians.

With this system, it will be delusional for anyone to come up with an idea to get out of the union. If they can't develop themselves in a confederal union, how can they develop themselves independently?

Many ethnic groups will abandon Nigeria if that happens.

Powers that be know better than to try such referendum. Nigeria and Nigerians have shed so much blood for Nigeria that even the devil himself is probably wondering if he actually is the one and only true Lucifer. What kind of a country continues to break its own blood soaked record every single year? 1945 through 2014 is how many years?

For some inexplicable reasons peace continues to be elusive in Nigeria. Many in the Middle Belt today can't even step their feet in their own bought/ inherited farms and you think they wouldn't pay anything to be separated from their murderers? I guess the only reason majority of people might decide to stick it out in Nigeria is because they've come to a point where they no longer have any kind formula. They've been battered to a point they're willing to accept the current fate as God's plan, hence no need to leave.

If Nigeria stays as is for another 100 years with no structural changes it'll be the capital of Hades. For long we've been frittering away our solutions, so now we have only two left: (1) Fiscal and political restructuring down to the smallest brick, and (2) break the country into as many nations as people desire. The problem is that both solutions are going to be painful in the short term but they're the only magic we've got left. We've gone past piecemeal solution. Failure to apply any of the two solutions above will eventually lead to an explosive head-on collision.

So, yea. If you give people the option of aborting now without the guaranteed collision that awaits them if they wait for much longer you bet they would take it.

I actually support a Confederacy if only no taxes are paid to the federal government and each region decides to how best to organize their military.

SamIkenna:


Many ethnic groups will abandon Nigeria if that happens.

Powers that be know better than to try such referendum. Nigeria and Nigerians have shed so much blood for Nigeria that even the devil himself is probably wondering if he actually is the one and only true Lucifer. What kind of a country continues to break its own blood soaked record every single year? 1945 through 2014 is how many years?

For some inexplicable reasons peace continues to be elusive in Nigeria. Many in the Middle Belt today can't even step their feet in their own bought/ inherited farms and you think they wouldn't pay anything to be separated from their murderers? I guess the only reason majority of people might decide to stick it out in Nigeria is because they've come to a point where they no longer have any kind formula. They've been battered to a point they're willing to accept the current fate as God's plan, hence no need to leave.

If Nigeria stays as is for another 100 years with no structural changes it'll be the capital of Hades. For long we've been frittering away our solutions, so now we have only two left: (1) Fiscal and political restructuring down to the smallest brick, and (2) break the country into as many nations as people desire. The problem is that both solutions are going to be painful in the short term but they're the only magic we've got left. We've gone past piecemeal solution. Failure to apply any of the two solutions above will eventually lead to an explosive head-on collision.

So, yea. If you give people the option of aborting now without the guaranteed collision that awaits them if they wait for much
longer you bet they would take it.

Your write up is very impressive. However, I don't think "complete" break up is possible in Nigeria ever again. We have actually come too far to break into pieces. I think the country is in utter need of political and economic restructuring, which you rightly observed.