You can't decide the future of Nigeria in Akwa.

Where's Nnamdi??

Hope they remember to observe a minute silence for the departed IPOB leader

Igbo kwenu

Waste of time and energy.

Where are the yorubas that were making with restructuring when kanu was around.

At the end of the day, nothing tangible will come out of this gathering... Yeye people

I thought that Ipob said that it will never hold?
What is going on?

Idrismusty97:
You can't decide the future of Nigeria in Akwa.

No, it must be decided in Sambisa terrorist den.

Awka really need restructuring if that will bring at least 8 hours power supply daily.

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This is a jamboree.

Any such serious discussion should be in a conference hall and not open field.

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danielkanu2019:
I'm Happy the Igbos are begining to see the importance of coming together as one united for
this is only how we can Achieve that we desire,because together we make a formidable force for our common Good,

And more so we should not forget our party, that which resonate with our root APGA,

Support APGA,
Support Hon Daniel Kanu For Governor Imo State

The same Daniel KANU who did million march for Abacha life presidency?

Youths Earnestly Ask for Abacha, YEAA!

People like this should have no input in our democracy.

Why is Selemempe looking for me when I am not lost?

ipodstinks:
Where are the cheerleaders? Are bloods not flowing again?

old news

the venue is in Chaos

Dont be deceived
Everybody looking for where to shuk mouth

this is supposed to be an indoor meeting where everyone could audibly hear another.

danielkanu2019:
I'm Happy the Igbos are begining to see the importance of coming together as one united for
this is only how we can Achieve that we desire,because together we make a formidable force for our common Good,

And more so we should not forget our party, that which resonate with our root APGA,

Support APGA,
Support Hon Daniel Kanu For Governor Imo State

That is the problem.

If igbos are united, there is nothing that can stop us from achieving our goals.

We are too aggressive ,too ubiquitous , to be stopped if we are united.

We are everywhere in the high and low places .

The only thing remaining is unity to maximise the advantage , just like the Zionists utilise their ubiquitousness to advance their global cause.

this thing is long overdue but the north keep fighting against it.

igbodefender:
Respect should also be given to Mazi Prince Nnamdi KANU, because his agitations gave birth to Restructuring demands.

Please don't go there

Kanu was clear on what he wanted: secession

I never liked the idea even though I kept quiet

A restructured Nigeria is better than a divided Nigeria

lonecatt:

Enemies of progress will not like this
see how they are masturbating a over the thread even when they cannot bring up a single solution to Nigeria's problem.
Nigeria cannot continue with the present way it is being run God forbid.

see ur life at T - junction u think they're gathering for us, if u don't know they gather to share 2018 budget

Thank God, finally. May God expose and flush out every selfish, pretending serpent among them.

As the picture below shows, the six geopolitical zones need to become six authonomous regions, with an elected government. Other reforms can be in the following forms;
A suggestion on how restructure can be;


1. Recognise the six geopolitical zones as federating units and let INEC conduct elections to elect their governors. Name the SE zone as Biafra state, SW as Odu'a state, SS as Niger Delta state, NC as Middle Belt state, NW as Arewa state, NE as Kanuri state.

2. The current 36 states will become metropolitan areas and the current 36 governors will become Mayors. Scrap entirely the current 774 LGA arrangment. The current LGA chairmen will go to the new six state assemblies as legislators. The councilors will be dissmissed.

3. Return Ilorin and Kabba to Odu'a state. Asaba, and other Igboid part of SS should be conceeded to Biafra (to quell unnessesary agitation). Ijaw part of Ondo should return to Niger Delta state. The fulani part of Kwara and Niger go to Arewa state. Nasarawa should go to Kanuri state. The Christian part of Taraba goes to Middle Belt state.

4. The offshore oil belongs to us, therefore we must share. The 36 Metros should still get what they are currently getting, while the new six states should now get what the LGA where getting before. So a state will get only the amount that would have accrued to the LGA it had before. The oil fields found inland should however be ceded to host communities. The assets of NNPC and NLNG should still belong to FG but must be treated as a private company when minning oil found inland.

5. Some NPF police officers should be transfered to state service as state police. Same should be with some prison wardens as state prison officers. Many of items on exclusive list (such as energy and power generation) should be moved to concurrent list to allow states participate. Only defence, foreign affairs and currency operations should be exclusive. Because of this, the oil revenue share retained by the FG will decrease to give more to the 6 states and 36 metros.

6. Increase the number of senator to 115. The extra 6 should be one first class king from each of the 6 states. Such as the sultan, ooni, obi, oba of benin etc. The new 6 states should have houses of chiefs to be made up of the remaining top monarchs in the zone. Any monarch not included should be considered irrelevant and derobed. The office of the Senate President and his deputy should be discontinued. Let the Vice President double as Senate President while the majority leader acts as his deputy.

7. Some LGA Civil Servants should be absorbed by the new states, the rest should be dissmissed. Federal roads should also become State responsibility, while airports, Seaports and railway should remain with FG. All seaports should have equal status.

By this, agitations will reduce grossly to give government at each level chance to do its job. Also the unaccounted waste by the current 774 LGAs will stop. The FG by this arrangement sheds power, but not enough to make it irrelevant. Also traditional rulers start actually working for the Nation to compensate for the millions they cost us. By this also Biafra would have been given to my Igbo people, Niger Delta would have been given to SS and Odu'a would have been given to SW.

I can see they've turned Ikemba's queen to "food for kings"

OHANEZE NDIGBO sign

dem take ordinary hand write am sef

gidgiddy:
They have been talking about restructuring Nigeria since Aburi in 1967 and have not come up with one single plan a out how they will restructure Nigeria.

The have had 8badan summit, Enugu summit , and now, Awka summit.

Yet not one of them can tell anyone how they will make the core North accept restructuring which they have long rejected.

They will hold this meeting, send out a communique about the need for restructuring and that will be that until the next summit

This meeting is a complete waste of time.

Were you there in Awka today abi you be only online protester? I need the pictures of IPOB miscreants causing trouble in Awka today.

igbodefender:


Bianca is beautiful.

very beautiful

Bede2u:
As the picture below shows, the six geopolitical zones need to become six authonomous regions, with an elected government. Other reforms can be in the following forms;
1. A premier should be elected for the six regions. The 774 LGA chairmen should become regional legislators. The top traditional rulers from each region should form regional House of Chiefs (equivalent of Senate). The 36 states should be federating units within each region, the 3rd tier of government and as presently organised.

2. The resources found anywhere within the land border of the six regions would belong to the regional government. It would be theirs to exploit and share among their federating states. The entire resources found in Nigeria's territorial waters would belong to the Federal government. It would be theirs to exploit and utilise entirely for the funding of federal budgets. There would no longer be monthly allocations given to any state or region.

3. Until offshore oil finishes, taxes would only consist of state taxes and regional taxes. Taxes should seek to take much more from the rich (Dangote, Adenuga, Elumelu etc) than it currently does.

4. There would be a federal police, regional police and state police. All federal roads would belong to the regional government. All items on exclusive list (with exception of Military, Foreign affairs, CBN, Customs and Road safety) would be brought to the concurrent list so that Federal, Regional and State government can be involved as well.

5. The federal government would use its resources to develope Abuja, the FCT. It should also spend some resources on Special Economic Zones such as Lagos, PH and Kano

6. The regions should have authority to develope regional symbols such as flags, coat of arms and regional anthems. They should also be allowed to negotiate directly with foreign governments on Economic and cultural issues only.

You have just made a remarkable input to the debate on restructuring. Not that I agree with everything you've said but I recognise that it is submissions like this online or offline that can lead to consensus.

Igbos should debate more, always striving to make worthy submissions.

it's a summit organised by ohanaeze ndigbo to discuss the faith of the southeast in the restructuring of the country(not for the whole country as reported by the op)

Bede2u:
As the picture below shows, the six geopolitical zones need to become six authonomous regions, with an elected government. Other reforms can be in the following forms;
1. A premier should be elected for the six regions. The 774 LGA chairmen should become regional legislators. The top traditional rulers from each region should form regional House of Chiefs (equivalent of Senate). The 36 states should be federating units within each region, the 3rd tier of government and as presently organised.

2. The resources found anywhere within the land border of the six regions would belong to the regional government. It would be theirs to exploit and share among their federating states. The entire resources found in Nigeria's territorial waters would belong to the Federal government. It would be theirs to exploit and utilise entirely for the funding of federal budgets. There would no longer be monthly allocations given to any state or region.

3. Until offshore oil finishes, taxes would only consist of state taxes and regional taxes. Taxes should seek to take much more from the rich (Dangote, Adenuga, Elumelu etc) than it currently does.

4. There would be a federal police, regional police and state police. All federal roads would belong to the regional government. All items on exclusive list (with exception of Military, Foreign affairs, CBN, Customs and Road safety) would be brought to the concurrent list so that Federal, Regional and State government can be involved as well.

5. The federal government would use its resources to develope Abuja, the FCT. It should also spend some resources on Special Economic Zones such as Lagos, PH and Kano

6. The regions should have authority to develope regional symbols such as flags, coat of arms and regional anthems. They should also be allowed to negotiate directly with foreign governments on Economic and cultural issues only.

The 36 states cannot be the federating units of Nigeria, the 36 of them were created by the military. If it is agreed that there will be 3 Regions in the North and South, they must be decided by referendum. The reason for this is that the Yorubas of Lead a might want to join their kit and kin in the South, the Igbo speaking people in Delta and Rivers state might prefare to join their kin in the Igbo Region as well as the Igbos of Benue. The Ijaws of Ondo might prefare to be in the Niger Delta Region and so on and so forth.

However, more important than all this is that if there are to be autonomous Regions, the constitution has to be changed. For the constitution to be changed, a 2 thirds majority vote is needed in the national assembly

With core North(NW&NE) controlling about 40% of the National Assembly, and have vowed not to allow restructuring, how will restructuring ever be achieved?

Restructuring is waste of time in Nigeria, the core North are against it.

What will ever be,will be irrespective of time. God knows that Igbos are playing vital roles in the Nigerian economy both people here and abroad.Even if this summit fails maybe the next to it will stand period.

ipodstinks:
Where are the chestbeaters? Are bloods not flowing again?

Where are the noise makers? Are skulls not being mined again?