mordsith:
Former national chairman, Traditional Rulers of Oil Producing Communities of Nigeria, TROMPCON, His Majesty, Charles Ayemi-Botu, has said the Acting President, Yemi Osinbajo “goofed by harping” on the Nigerian constitution to insist that the country remains an indivisible entity.
Ayemi-Botu, who is a paramount ruler of Siembiri Kingdom, Delta State, made the observation in Warri, when he played host to a delegation of the United States, US, Consulate, led by Paul Hines, Political and Economic Adviser to the Consul General, who visited to find out how Niger Delta communities were fairing under the leadership of Osinbajo.
According to Ayemi-Botu, “Acting President, Prof Yemi Osinbajo, harped on the indivisibility of Nigeria and the illegality of any opinion opposed to that based on the constitution.
“Without fear or favour, the Acting President goofed in that thinking. The constitution is dynamic and amenable to change. Buhari came to power promising change, and change we want.
“The 1914 – 2014 treaty of amalgamation of Nigeria by Lord Lugard is gone and expired. Added to the force of the 2014 confab and the glaring inequality among groups where Niger Delta, the goose that lays the golden egg, is perpetual second- class citizens, the indivisibility of Nigeria has become too shaky to tarry.
“Under the circumstance, the peaceful way to go is restructuring and the best tool to achieve that is referendum. That is why we call on the US and the developed West to prevail on Federal Government to allow referendum for people to fairly determine where they want to be.
“Individuals, groups and zones can raise sentiments, but oil, particularly the vast reserves in my Niger Delta, the economic live wire the entire nation survives on is the only unifying factor for sustained unified Nigeria. But for oil which makes up 98 per cent of Nigeria’s GDP, Nigeria would not have been.”

http://dailypost.ng/2017/06/26/osinbajo-goofed-nigeria-remaining-together-niger-delta-monarch-ayemi-botu/

beamtopola:
Bayelsan, we are stubborn. Bayelsan are still closing their mouths, the only stubborn people Nigeria has. This news will only have momentum when I true son of bayelsa speaks.

RobbStark:
I tot some Igbos said the South is part.of their biafra, why didnt the monarch even give it a mention. Yeye dey smell.

felicitywe:

Afonjas will not like this interview.Funny enough Afonjas will create thread claiming to be from Niger delta.Everyone has known them for deception.Make una change ooo.Wetin u no get u no get and wetin u no bi u no bi.

SuperS1Panther:
Your position is wrong. There is no position under the UN Charter and Article that says Amalgamation or Unification scan be dissolved after 100years.

For the proponent of secession and melody singer of self determination of UN Charter, always read Article 6 of UN Charter which has this caveat “Any attempt aimed at the partial or total disruption of the national unity and territorial integrity of a country is incompatible with the purposes and principles of the Charter of the United Nations”.

DamiBukola:
Stop misleading your cronies here.

The right to self determination is a fundamental right and the definition you are given never allows a country to keep people in perpetual slavery.

The right of self-determination of peoples is a fundamental principle in international law. It is embodied in the Charter of the United Nations and the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights and the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights. Common Article 1, paragraph 1 of these Covenants provides that:

"All peoples have the rights of self-determination. By virtue of that right they freely determine their political status and freely pursue their economic, social and cultural development."

The right of self-determination has also been recognized in other international and regional human rights instruments such as Part VII of the Helsinki Final Act 1975 and Article 20 of the African Charter of Human and Peoples' Rights as well as the Declaration on the Granting of Independence to Colonial Territories and Peoples. It has been endorsed by the International Court of Justice. Furthermore, the scope and content of the right of self- determination has been elaborated upon by the United Nations Human Rights Committee and Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination as well as international jurists and human rights experts

SuperS1Panther:


Stop being economical with the truth.

Read Article 6 of UN Charter which has this caveat “Any attempt aimed at the partial or total disruption of the national unity and territorial integrity of a country is incompatible with the purposes and principles of the Charter of the United Nations”.

DamiBukola:
Don't read the article you are referring to in isolation, read it along side the Pre-amble and other provisions of the article. Article 6 is there for the right of a country against external interference. Read the mischief the article intends to correct.

Self-determination embodies the right for all peoples to determine their own economic, social and cultural development. Self-determination has thus been defined by the International Court of Justice (in the West-Saharan case) as the need to pay regard to the freely expressed will of peoples.

It is important to stress that for indigenous peoples the term selfdetermination does most often NOT imply secession from the state.

If a small country like Ethiopia inserted it in their Constitution why must Nigeria be 1?

What is your fear?


Today, Kosovo is an independent State so why can't the West stand on their own?

Just answer me why the country must be 1 and who is afraid of everybody going to their separate ways?

DamiBukola:
Don't read the article you are referring to in isolation, read it along side the Pre-amble and other provisions of the article. Article 6 is there for the right of a country against external interference. Read the mischief the article intends to correct.

Self-determination embodies the right for all peoples to determine their own economic, social and cultural development. Self-determination has thus been defined by the International Court of Justice (in the West-Saharan case) as the need to pay regard to the freely expressed will of peoples.

It is important to stress that for indigenous peoples the term selfdetermination does most often NOT imply secession from the state.

If a small country like Ethiopia inserted it in their Constitution why must Nigeria be 1?

What is your fear?


Today, Kosovo is an independent State so why can't the West stand on their own?

Just answer me why the country must be 1 and who is afraid of everybody going to their separate ways?

SuperS1Panther:

Stop behaving life an half baked graduate.

Article 6 was very explicit and it even refers to UN Charter in its caveat.

Self determination is secession. Stop twisting what is not.

For you to secede b ready to carry your AK47 like Eritrea, South Sudan, South Ossetia Abkhazia, Crimea, Serbia, Etc

adetayo234:


My big swell rotten balls says you will commit suicide because of your obsession with Afonja matter.

nototribalist:
stupidity runs in my family. My father is nothing other than amenity idiotic dumbass!!

DamiBukola:
This is my problem, I am not an Igbo and I will never be part of Biafra.

On the issue, we were having a good intellectual discourse until you started using vulgar words "half baked graduate".

I mistook you to be a sensible person, I never knew you are an APC apologist; they are fond of hauling abusive words once the discourse is beyond their prowess