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Restructuring is a Yoruba agenda? Is this man for real

Restructuring is the Igbo agenda presented during the Aburi meeting by Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu. And these ignorant uninformed mugus are the people running things in Nigeria? Can you see why Nigeria would forever remain a zoo


O pari

pabllov53:
Lagos Lagos Lagos, the only state without a mineral resources but yet they are far the best state in Nigeria and one of the best in the world, as the statics says 70% of its development is caused by the igbo.

big question
- why is that?

the answer is simple.

remove all the international amenities like the seaport and international airport lets see if the state would still retain its glory, or better still leave them and open just seaport in ANAMBRA STATE and give them 2yrs if they won't supersede LAGOS.

ItsMeAboki:


Quite on the contrary; that accolade seems to belong to you, because Tanko Yakassai was very clear in what he said and in equally making a clear distinction between them by drawing attention to the constitutional/practical dilemma of reverting back to the 1962 constitution.

His words:
“Some people are advocating we should adopt the 1962 Constitution. To the best of my knowledge, the 1962 Constitution recognised four regions. Now we have six geo-political regions. But they failed to explain which regions should be retained or merged.”

franchasng:
I love politically enlightened ladies who discuss or argue sensibly, and I see you as one, keep it up.

Now, to your comment, I am an Igbo person…and I want to authoritatively tell you that majority of Igbo people love Yorubas, forget internet fights…Igbos love Yorubas, but hate their national political moves or let me say political games of always aligning with the north against the remaining southern Nigeria….this is where Igbos have issues with Yorubas, aside that, Igbos sure will pick Yorubas over Hausa-Fulani….

Let me give you another prove: during the first coup of 1966, the young military chaps headed by an Igbo solder Maj. Chukwuma Nzeogwu planned the 1966 coup mainly to remove Abubakar Tafawa Belewa, Ahmadu Bello, Nnamdi Azikiwe and Akintola Williams to install Chief Obafemi Awolowo as Nigeria’s president because they believed Awolowo is more enlightened and detribalized to bring peace and development in Nigeria.

What made them to plot that first coup was Ahmadu Bello and Tafawa Belewa’s tribal and religious segregation towards achieving Uthman Danfodio’s devilish religious mission in Nigeria through political dominance, religious war, attacks, etc, so they wanted to end it and they wanted to also kill Nnamdi Azikiwe for always aligning with the northern political elites back then, but one useless Igbo soldier, Capt. Ifeajuna foiled the coup and leaked the info to his cousin Nnamdi Azikiwe who fled Nigeria on pretence of going for a medical leave abroad, if not, he would have been killed and I don’t think Nigeria would have experienced a civil war.

And believe me, if today was in 1960s, with the nonsense tribalistic and religious leadership style Buhari is using to rule Nigeria now, he would have been booted out in a bloody coup because back then, young soldiers had gut unlike now.

So I blame the useless Igbo soldiers that allowed tribal sentiments to becloud their good sense of judgment to carry out the mission to save Nigeria.

How did I know all these

A close relative was among the top coup plotters of the 1966…..he was one of the closest friend to Major Nzeogwu and he participated in the coup; he and Nzeogwu led team.

Ovamboland:


I just had to point out the fallacies and inaccuracies in your nicely written story at to set the record straight.

1st bold, Ibos have aligned with the North at least 4 times in national elections where a Southerner could have come out winner or actually came second. All that was needed to win was Ibo support and it was withrawn on the four occassions. 1960, 1979, 1983 and,1993 are those occassions.
The only times Yoruba aligned with North that could deny south of anything was during the civil war and 2015.

2. You are the first Ibo man I would encounter on Nairaland arguing from this perspective. ibo left Ahmadu Bello who called his party Northern people's Congress and did not bother to campaign outside the North, to attack and label as founder of tribal politics an Awolowo who wanted to take his new party nationwide and campaign as such. Bello had so much disdain for Nigeria that he refused to be it's first Prime Minister but choose his boy to occupy the position, but most Ibo see him as more nationalist than Awolowo. It seems you just threw that in to support you coup to install Awo theory.

3rd bold, there's no evidence Azikiwe was ever a target,
That he had foreknowledge is not in doubt but chose to save only his own skin is treasonous enough. Non of his high ranking party members or associates was arrested or questioned not to talk of elimination.

Deadlytruth:


Tanko Yakassi, like a typical Northerner, is only being clever by half and playing the devil's advocate by pretending he doesn't know that the current call for restructuring is hinged on the current states acting as the federating units. Given the fact that as at 1962 agitations had mounted from different minorities to be given their own regions, only a dishonest beneficiary of the current system like Yakassi would use the poser of the impracticability of returning to the four region structure as a basis for kicking against restructuring.
I am however not surprised that Yakassi is afraid of a return to true federalism considering the fact that he was a very close associate of the very Zik whose One-Nigerianism ideology inspired Ironsi into breaking up our true federalism and subverting the Independence constitution. Yakassi is the Hausafulani version of Zik and Ironsi. We all know that if Zik had been around today his opinion would just be same as that of Yakassi being his fellow unitary system advocate while he lived.

ItsMeAboki:


Typical southerner and southern hypocrisy; saying one thing and meaning another.

How can you suggest that the proponents of the 1962 were considering the current 36 states as direct substitutes for the former 3 regions in their proposal; knowing fully well that a constitution is a very specific and highly technical document, intentionally designed that way to protect it from loose or glib interpretation.

Tanko Yakassai was aware of the absurdity of this proposal and therefore correct to draw attention to the practical limitations of adopting it; while pointing out the alternative route towards it - which is constitutional amendment, an ongoing functional process already in place from the creation of this country till date; but which our dishonest southern co-travellers wish to circumvent in their usual pattern of shifting the goalpost by changing the rules midway through the game.

The real beneficiaries of One Nigeria know themselves; neither is the north desperate for the country not to break up (it was the 1st region to want to opt out in 1966); recently the Lamido of Adamawa maintained that position for the north when he spoke at the 2014 National Conference; again Tanko Yakassai is currently hinting the same when he recommended for the north to start consulting with its neighbouring border countries e.g. Niger, Cameroon etc.
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Obakuso:
Positive Things Restructuring Nigeria Will Bring! - Foreign Diplomat Reveals by Julivas(m): 1:25pm On Aug 22
If Nigeria restructured into provinces -
1) Northern Province
2) Middle Belt Province
3) Oduduwa Province
4) Eastern Province
5) Niger Delta Province (Atlantic)
Then Central Government at FCT.

10 positive things that would happen within 5 years
(primarily due to inter-province competition)

1. The first province to experience economic explosion would obviously be the Western Province. The Oduduwua Master plan will be revealed. There would be trans-regional 4g internet fiber connection/rail/subways/highways/power grids etc. Yoruba will become the 2nd official language. They are relatively united. They have oil. They own academia. They have mega corporations. The WP would be the first to have stable 24/7 power supply! Foreign money will flood the province. More Forbes recognized billionaires will arise. Some of them will be internet billionaires. Lagos will be relieved a little from overpopulation as railway lines from other states will make living elsewhere and working in Lagos a breeze.

2. The Northern Province will have stronger islamic laws. Sharia will be entrenched and this will make the NP become the least corrupt province. The middle east (Arab) nations will move in to partner with them, bringing major development. Jaiz bank and Unity Bank will become mega banks. Arabic and Hausa will compete with English for dominance in schools. This province will generate more solar power than any other province. After the west, this province will be the 2nd to have 24/7 electricity. They will start exporting food as a major revenue generator.

3. The Middle Belt Province will have a development conference. Focus will be given to solid minerals development/
exports, tourism development and food production/exports. This will become a food hub in West Africa. They will export more food than any other province. Mega mining and food corporations will arise. This province will have foreign inflows through tourism development greater than any other province. It will host the most beautiful places to live in Nigeria.

4. The Eastern Province will transform into the Auto Industry Hub of Africa. Indigenous manufacturing of vehicles that will start competing with foreign vehicles will commence in earnest. This will grow to manufacturing of airplanes, helicopters, tractors, cranes, heavy duty construction equipment etc. Forbes recognised billionaires living in Anambra will arise. The Biafra agitation will fizzle out since formation of the EP will be seen as a Biafra success in another form. There would be so much development that villages (as we currently know them) will quickly cease to exist. This province will be the first to semi-urbanize all their rural areas as all the Igbos living abroad will rush back to take advantage of the changes.

5. The Atlantic Province will take the Uyo blueprint and run with it. An abundance of oil wealth and opening up of major sea ports at Rivers and Uyo will enable this region to revamp their infrastructure quickly. There will be more monorails here than anywhere else. This will be the 3rd province to achieve 24/7 electricity generation in Nigeria (mainly from gas turbine technology).

6. With provincial indigenous security forces in control, kidnapping, Armed robbery, Boko Haram, Fulani herdsmen and the Niger delta militancy attacks will all fizzle out. Nigeria will become the most secure and peaceful African nation; thus attracting more foreigners.

7. Each Province will have their own airline professionally managed. And with better roads/rail, air and land transport costs will crash.

8. With the rapid development occurring all over, Nigerias GDP will shoot up. Obtaining visas to travel out will become easy as more people will want to come in than go out. A worldwide immigration into Nigeria will commence, as Nigerians living abroad will be struggling with foreigners to enter the country. ''Nigeria will become the most desirable Nation to live in".

9. The central government at the FCT will become smaller and less powerful. There will be a mini-exodus from Abuja to the provinces as the action is now elsewhere. The outskirts of Abuja will no longer be heavily overpopulated. Abuja will become awesome again.

10. The 10th positive thing that would quickly happen positive idea.

Pls share for the sensitization of the benefits of Restructuring.

Nigeria must flourish again.��

ItsMeAboki:


Typical southerner and southern hypocrisy; saying one thing and meaning another.

How can you suggest that the proponents of the 1962 were considering the current 36 states as direct substitutes for the former 3 regions in their proposal; knowing fully well that a constitution is a very specific and highly technical document, intentionally designed that way to protect it from loose or glib interpretation.

Tanko Yakassai was aware of the absurdity of this proposal and therefore correct to draw attention to the practical limitations of adopting it; while pointing out the alternative route towards it - which is constitutional amendment, an ongoing functional process already in place from the creation of this country till date; but which our dishonest southern co-travellers wish to circumvent in their usual pattern of shifting the goalpost by changing the rules midway through the game.

The real beneficiaries of One Nigeria know themselves; neither is the north desperate for the country not to break up (it was the 1st region to want to opt out in 1966); recently the Lamido of Adamawa maintained that position for the north when he spoke at the 2014 National Conference; again Tanko Yakassai is currently hinting the same when he recommended for the north to start consulting with its neighbouring border countries e.g. Niger, Cameroon etc.
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Obakuso:




No more war between brothers. You have to reach 100% consensus to make true change.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D2m5scQQCPM

Deadlytruth:


Of course a typical Northerner must conjure every logic, however flawed, in defense of this structure which they unduly benefit from. But then the true goalpost shifters are the North and Igbos who at different times wanted one-Nigeria and secession depending on when it favoured their domination agenda or otherwise.
If there is nothing wrong with the current structure then Tanko Yakassi owes Nigeria an explanation for why Northerners staged very violent and bloody riots against Ironsi's 1966 Unification Decree which birthed it?
Why has Yakassi never spared a line in condemnation of the Araba movement which the North put in place when it appeared that the feared Igbo domination agenda was getting inevitably real?
Yakassi's position that restructuring is a Yoruba secession movement championed by uninformed Igbos contradicts your own opinion that seems to credit him with the North's phantom readiness for secession. Such position is evocative of the times when Zik boasted in all constitutional conferences that the East could stand on her own and do better than if in Nigeria, yet he never stopped preaching the sustenance of Nigeria. Yakassi remains the North's version of Zik's hypocrisy.

Deadlytruth:


Aburi Accord was not a form of restructuring but an unprecedented illegality. Restructuring in Nigeria is a call for true federalism through a re-adoption of the Independence constitution with the current states replacing the regions in status and function. But Aburi Accord was a call for confederalism which was and still remains altogether strange to Nigeria and Nigerians as we never ever practised such before or after Independence.

ItsMeAboki:


It is funny how southerners, who were the architects of the Unitary System they are currently complaining about, would shamelessly turn around and blame northerners for unduly benefiting from it - as if to say northerners wrong to have adapted and excelled better under a system which southerners had violently thrust upon them.

Yes indeed; southerners were and still are chronic goalpost shifters, often chopping and changing the rules whenever they fail to grab power at the centre:
- they ditched our nascent democracy, when they couldn't win through the ballot box, in favour of military dictatorship; introduced geopolitical zones which effectively accommodates and legitimises their obnoxious tribal politics.
- they also introduced rotational presidency at the expense of free choice (of candidates) in a true democracy.
- as if that is not enough, they now want to take us over 50 years back to the 1962 constitution, which they had earlier destroyed and rejected in their 1966 coup - apparently, because northerners are fairing better under the current system (talk of spitefulness).

gidgiddy:


Aburi accord was illegal? Why? Wasn't it the military leaders that met in Aburi and decided on the future? If confederation is strange to Nigeria because we never practiced then so is the current system we practice now. There was a time there were no 36 states and Abuja but we survived.


The Aburi agreement is a reminder to anyone who is a student of Nigerian history that the North will never agree to Nigeria being restructured

Deadlytruth:


Exactly who and who elected them to lead them and represent them in a legislative business? Which and which federal consituencies did they represent like how it was in the constitutional conference of London in 1957 which had genuine peoples' representation and therefore carried a seal of the people's ultimate sovereign will?
You mean a new constitution produced without our consent by a military establishment which had earlier on subverted our own sovereign and we-the-people constitution on Jan 15 and May 24 1966 should have been accepted by us as a document legally binding on us?

gidgiddy:


Then that means that Nigeria is illegal. It was a military man called Feredrick Lugard who created Nigeria in.1914 without the permission of the people. The 36 states of Nigeria and Abuja were the creation of the military. Nigeria and it's structure is a creation of military men. It is time to call for Nigeria to be dissolved