kropotkin2:
Your SE state houses of assembly are subject to and are creations of the 1999 Nigerian constitution. They have no power to call for any binding referendum. You are so ignorant about how the Nigerian constitution works, as you are brainwashed by Radio Biafra propaganda. No referendum can ever hold without a constitutional amendment


Chapter I: General Provisions
Part I: Federal Republic of Nigeria
1. 1.
This Constitution is supreme and its provisions shall have binding force on the
authorities and persons throughout the Federal Republic of Nigeria.
2.
The Federal Republic of Nigeria shall not be governed, nor shall any persons or
group of persons take control of the Government of Nigeria or any part thereof,
except in accordance with the provisions of this Constitution.
3.
If any other law is inconsistent with the provisions of this Constitution, this
Constitution shall prevail, and that other law shall, to the extent of the
inconsistency, be void.
•
Constitutionality of legislation
2. 1.
Nigeria is one indivisible and indissoluble sovereign state to be known by the
name of the Federal Republic of Nigeria.

Do you now see as our constitution effectively outlaws any kind of dissolution of the union and authorizes the president to enforce this provision?

Now take a look at section 1.1 and tell me how your SE legislatures can have a joint session to violate section 2.1


https://www.constituteproject.org/constitution/Nigeria_1999.pdf?lang=en

mrvitalis:
No no that was no what igbos were saying

khSteel:

First, what's the definition of a Referendum and its modalities?

Dont tell me you don't know what a referendum is

Second, the state house of Assembly, are they the 'Representative of the People'...YES or NO?

All state houses of assembly are established by and are subject to the Nigerian 1999 constitution. No state house of assembly has the power to enact any law that contravenes any section of the constitution. For example, section 2.1

2. 1. Nigeria is one indivisible and indissoluble sovereign state to be known by the
name of the Federal Republic of Nigeria. How does any house of assembly get around that?

Third, like I said earlier, "There are so many different route to a particular destination, don't sit in your house and expect IPOB to follow a route of your choice which you and people like you have designed to frustrate a peoples' choice and shared ambition";

what makes you think IPOB will subject itself to your constitution?

The federal Republic of Nigeria doesn't care what IPOB thinks, but it sure does care what they do. When they came out on the streets in May this year, the government showed them what it could do. We haven't seen them on the streets again

A piece of paper fraudulently created by some group of men with zero inputs from the people of SE?

Fourth, your whole assertions are that Igbos/IPOB/others must subject themselves to the whips and caprices of your fraudulent 'Piece of Paper' - a 'Piece of Paper' that my people have holistically demonstrated against time over, which the Nigerian army have killed so many.

Until you do, quit embarrassing yourself on Biafra matters.

Fifth, a 'Referendum' is not subject to Constitutional Amendment, rather, a Constitutional Amendment is subject to a Referendum.
For your information, a Referendum is an act that gives legality to a 'Piece of Document' that can then be termed a 'Legal Constitution' just like a 'set of terms of agreement' is never binding until parties involved signed the document. Could you please furnish us the 'Terms of Reference' where Igbos/IPOB signed in agreement to your 'Piece of Document' through the global acceptable means of doing such which is a simple 'Referendum'?

You have a very skewed idea on how constitutions work in sovereign Nation states. All Nation states have constitutions that are supreme over all the abstractions you just spewed. Nothing and no one can be above the constitution of a sovereign state. Definitely not your referendum.
Get this, a Constitution is simply a 'Contract'; it is created to serve the people and never for the people to 'Serve the Contract'; so if your constitution is your only wild card to stopping the upcoming Biafra Referendum, you've got nothing.

BTW, State House of Assembly can initiate the process - All they need is get as much as 2-5 million signatures, hold a joint session and write to the UN, EU, AU and all foreign diplomatic missions.

And by the way this is most laughable part of IPOB propaganda that got your director in the predicament he finds himself in the first place. You Biafran agitators have no allies, you have no powerful friends, no nation state on earth recognizes your cause. You have no army. All you have is a radio station. The UN,EU,AU etc are not in the business of breaking up nation states. All those entities are allies of the Nigerian state. None of them will ever back any silly, ill advised secessionist venture. Face it man, your cause is doomed

SIRTee15:


so what exactly do u want buhari to do?
obviously he can't grant the SS/SE referendum because it's unconstitutional.........
Even, if he grants and conducts it anyway, the national assembly will kill it.........
Buhari can also be dragged to court where the Supreme Court will declare the referendum null and void.....
I think the first step is to insert a secession clause into our constitution......
and only the national assembly can do that.......
I know it's going to difficult, but at least that's a legal way to go about it......
then the SS/SE elected representatives need to get on board.......
without them, I seriously doubt this agitation will get the momentum it needs to push forward its agenda.....
except IPOB is hoping on international community to force the hand of the federal government to grant referendum.......

Blue3k:
Even if referendum did happen most Biafra would lose. I don't think people on ground want it as much as minority on nairaland does. More people want to restructuring of country, political for resource control and more state control, economicly with economic freedom and privation of government assets that they woefully failed at running, accountability of political class and rule of law.

Curtailing power of govenors would be first step and demanding state legislature take more control of budget. Having state police and so on.

We talk ad nauseam about this on other forums. We know what to do. It just needs to be implemented then people will have no reason to fight over teat of government.