Pan-Yoruba socio-cultural
organisation, Afenifere, has
faulted the claim by Arewa
Consultative Forum on the
reports of the 2014 national
conference.
The group particularly asked the
ACF to “stop peddling the funny
claim of the North being 80 per
cent of Nigeria in land mass and
with a higher population”
because the “fallacies have been
laid to rest.”
A statement on Sunday by the
National Publicity Secretary of
Afenifere, Mr. Yinka Odumakin,
said, “All the over 600
resolutions taken at the
conference were by consensus as
delegates never had to vote once.
The only issues that remained
contentious were the
percentages of increase in
derivation, the minerals
development fund and the
disaster relief fund.
“The point of disagreement was
when some Arewa delegates
insisted that they would only
agree to the five per cent
increase in derivation and same
for mineral resources
development all over Nigeria on
the condition that the five per
cent earmarked for disaster
intervention fund should be only
for areas where Boko Haram are
operating, while other delegates
frowned on making Boko Haram
a derivation item.
“The compromise struck was to
refer the items to the president
for a technical committee
harmonisation.”
Afenifere added that the
allegation “laced with the usual
feudal arrogance, outright
misinformation, atavistic
obfuscation and delusory
myopia” would have been
ignored “were it not that
falsehood repeated time and
again may start to wear the garb
of truth.”
It said, “Let us from the outset
make it clear that the unitary
order, which the House of
Arewa, has used to limit the
flourishing of the component
units of Nigeria for decades, has
now entered a terminal crisis
with shrinking receipt from oil
and like a one-legged man
dancing “skelewu”, will sure hit
the ground even if he has all the
stage to himself.
“And when the fall comes, ACF
and co-travellers would wish we
had done the needful. They
should, therefore, perish the
thought that Afenifere is cajoling
them to allow a restructured
Nigeria.”
Afenifere said it was amused
that ACF was still peddling the
claim of controlling 80 per cent
of Nigeria because it had thought
the fallacies had been laid to rest
in 2014 after some of their
delegates had taunted their co-
conferees from the South “with
map of Nigeria drawn at the
back of their babanriga showing
the North as 80 per cent of
Nigeria.”
Odumakin recalled that during
the national confab, delegates
were unanimous that the figures
of all the censuses held in
Nigeria till date had not been
credible due to hegemonic
interference with what should
have just been an exercise to
provide scientific data to aid
planning and development.
It was also agreed that the
natural boundaries of the North
and the South are Rivers Niger
and Benue “but the British drew
artificial boundaries to favour
the North and punish the South
for agitating for independence.”
Afenifere also queried why the
North would be using the issue
of bigger land mass, which was
allegedly cornered to its
advantage, to harvest revenue
from the central purse instead of
cultivating it.
The delegates, it said, also
resolved that if the higher
population claim were true,
“why would a man say his
neighbours should not send their
children to the best schools
because they have to cater for his
own children who are more than
theirs?”
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Okay

So on point. The only group that can stand the north is the southwest

eliment:
So on point. The only group that can stand the north is the southwest

The death of

Afonja

Awo

and


Mko


Are good examples of masters maltreating their sl.....

I have been saying this the north has no business being in Nigeria. they were just imposed on us by the British who found a northerner ruling Nigeria highly comfortable as they are known to think and not reason, and are not easily disposed to challenge constituted authority.