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Nigeria: Are New Nations Forming Even Without SNC? by Onlytruth(m): 5:03am On Mar 08, 2012
[size=16pt]Nigeria: Are new nations forming even without SNC? [/size]

By Onyebuchi Onyegbule
Thursday, March 08, 2012

The Southwest called it ‘Regional Integration’ stating quickly that, ‘Regional integration is not to break up Nigeria…. but simply put, a strategy for national integration’. That integration is first economic: to create an economic zone contiguous with Edo state using politics as ‘driving force’ and primarily, ‘ensure they retain political power and continue to drive southwest integrated regional agenda’.

Law: to create ‘a robust legal framework for Southwest regionalization and ensure that the laudable agenda is not reversed’. Security: Southwest legislators to lobby for the creation of state police. Culture: to preserve Yoruba as a living language and make it a prerequisite for admission into tertiary institutions in the South-west from 2015.


[b]Transportation: to approach the federal government for the take-over of federal roads in the area. Sports: to pool resources to fund a regional football club in the mould of Enugu Rangers, which approximated the Igbo spirit after the Nigerian Civil War and finally, anthem and logo: ‘to adopt the State of Osun Anthem …… as the Southwest Regional Anthem which captures the correct spirit and sentiment behind integration for regional development …. and for the same reason, to adopt the crest of the State of Osun as the regional logo’.

What’s left? Perhaps a fighting force which could quickly grow from a state police and a name, maybe encased somewhere already. A people have a right to choose the way they want to live as well as with whom. Precisely, if restructuring or decline were to take place today, the Southwest would want to be with Edo. But why Edo? Maybe, Oduduwa ancestry. Maybe contiguity. If both planks define the criteria, the Afonja factor of its northern neighbor, Kwara qualifies too, yet muted. So they aren’t the real reasons. It’d be interesting to know if the Edos are equally as up-beat.
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Reasons: present Edo State is part of a commonwealth of minorities where ‘you-are-like-I-am’ reigns: Ibibio/Ijaw/Uhrobo/Efik/Bini/Ogoja/Itsoko, etc., are at par and have inadvertently adopted pidgin as their lingua franca. This is where the Edo has muscle and can rub shoulders without being rubbished. It’s not the same as being curdled into an arrangement where ab-initio, you have no choice but flow with a living language already asterisked a prerequisite. In such an arrangement, one culture will definitely swallow the other as well as its members’ identities. Egalitarianism rather than contiguity/ancestry appears a better bind.

[b]Just recently, a coalition numbering 3,000 and comprising ethnic nationalities and groups from the North-central, Southeast and South-South geo-political zones converged in Enugu to hold an all-night vigil in honor of the departed icon-of-courage, Dim Emeka Ojukwu in what they called ‘a-handshake-across-the-Niger’. Their aim like the Southwest coalition’s is to keep power beyond 2015. Spurred by the eruptive Asari-Dokubo, they stood on stone to tell whoever cares to listen that they-are-here. You may call it an emerging common identity or so.

One thing’s sure though, it’s a rising bottom-up power bloc in contrast to the southwest brand which’s more like a top-down stuff where leaders tell the people the way to go. Here, it’s the people showing themselves and their leaders the way. Interesting is, should this power bloc eventually emerge as a separate entity, the coterie of minorities meeting an apparent majority will cancel out dominance to produce balance. Such balance will definitely neutralize primordial instincts rooted in origin/majority/minority and release the needed dynamic to propel society. It’d untie people and set them to soar. That way, the spirit of productive competitiveness activates the kinetics required to stand-out in the 21st century and beyond. People want this.
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[b]Both variants provide mind-roses. The only stale brand is brand-Boko which’s causing a drag on the north. Northerners want to be free but aren’t rising up to the threat on hand. Boko wants to Islamize everybody but with bombs that kill the Islamized and non-Islamized alike. If peradventure the three variants somehow anchor, we’re likely to see the Hand-Shake-Across-The-Niger and Southwest brands soaring and perhaps, drawing up structures to complement one another.

The Boko-variant has one direction: backwards if the north does nothing now. What should FG do? Nothing. Just keep the peace and allow the people to naturally sort themselves out. Let the tare and the wheat grow. By 2014, the harvest time, groups will have known their agreed domains. Only then can they talk more meaningfully in a possible national confab. This blending/cleavage period should quietly go on undisturbed. After the people have drawn their separate agreements, government can then harmonize.

That’s the real confab. A Confab of people who’ve agreed by choice to be/live together. Call it restructuring but it could well be more.[/b]

Onyegbule writes from Lagos.


http://www.sunnewsonline.com/webpages/features/freekick/2012/mar/08/freekick-08-03-2012-001.html
Re: Nigeria: Are New Nations Forming Even Without SNC? by Onlytruth(m): 5:05am On Mar 08, 2012
I say YES they are forming, but slowly.
It will garther momentum as 2015 approches. cool
Re: Nigeria: Are New Nations Forming Even Without SNC? by karfe(m): 8:33am On Mar 09, 2012
5 nations have been existing on our sub-conscious. However, we must learn to differentiate between nations and political alliances. SS and SE still appear to be separate while Edo is not part of SW

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Re: Nigeria: Are New Nations Forming Even Without SNC? by jason123: 6:54pm On Mar 18, 2012
karfe: 5 nations have been existing on our sub-conscious. However, we must learn to differentiate between nations and political alliances. SS and SE still appear to be separate while Edo is not part of SW
Re: Nigeria: Are New Nations Forming Even Without SNC? by bittyend(m): 7:18pm On Mar 18, 2012
Why are the Itsekiris not included in the Yoruba nation? Yoruba nation without Itsekiris, means we the Ijebus/Remos/Itsekiris will have to declare our separate country grin I prefer Nigeria, but if we've to go our separate ways - we the Ijebu and Remo people want our Itsekiri brothers with us.

Enough said! cool

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Re: Nigeria: Are New Nations Forming Even Without SNC? by Nobody: 9:07pm On Mar 18, 2012
I think a split of nigeria into 3,then later 4 is very likely.the middle belt states of plateau,taraba,nasarawa,southern kaduna,southern adamawa may form a new nation,and they may not be confortable with having niger,kwara,kogi in their political union due to mistrust.niger,kwara,kogi will likely look up to hausa/fulani for help politically if they feel disadvantaged or dominated in a middle belt union.I believe this middle belt union iv mentioned could kick off in top gear once it is certain that SE and SS are leaving nigeria.the middle belt union above,made up of southern kaduna,plateau,taraba,nasarawa, southern adamawa-il call therm eastern middle belt union for the purpose of this analysis.the SE and SS are better off being together.Il explain later.Il be back.
Re: Nigeria: Are New Nations Forming Even Without SNC? by Onlytruth(m): 9:38pm On Mar 18, 2012
bittyend: Why are the Itsekiris not included in the Yoruba nation? Yoruba nation without Itsekiris, means we the Ijebus/Remos/Itsekiris will have to declare our separate country grin I prefer Nigeria, but if we've to go our separate ways - we the Ijebu and Remo people want our Itsekiri brothers with us.

Enough said! cool

So, are you saying that you will form an Ijebu country, together with the Itsekiri?
Hmm, that is kind of interesting.
I can however deduce from your logic here that Itsekiri is the ONLY key to a united Yoruba nation; else, Ijebus would not join it, and would pursue a separate nation with their brothers the Remos. Am I wrong?
Re: Nigeria: Are New Nations Forming Even Without SNC? by Desola(f): 10:10pm On Mar 18, 2012
Yeye people. How can you take ijebu from Yoruba? The land of Awolowo our founding father? Oshisko.
Re: Nigeria: Are New Nations Forming Even Without SNC? by bittyend(m): 11:48pm On Mar 18, 2012
So, are you saying that you will form an Ijebu country, together with the Itsekiri?
Hmm, that is kind of interesting.
I can however deduce from your logic here that Itsekiri is the ONLY key to a united Yoruba nation; else, Ijebus would not join it, and would pursue a separate nation with their brothers the Remos. Am I wrong?

The Ijebus, Remos, and Itsekiris are the same people - just as the Ondos and Ekitis are the same people. So, any Yoruba nation must include them.
Re: Nigeria: Are New Nations Forming Even Without SNC? by Onlytruth(m): 4:04am On Mar 19, 2012
bittyend:

The Ijebus, Remos, and Itsekiris are the same people - just as the Ondos and Ekitis are the same people. So, any Yoruba nation must include them.

So, what if that is not possible? What if Itsekiri decides to go with a Delta republic?
Re: Nigeria: Are New Nations Forming Even Without SNC? by Nobody: 6:27pm On Mar 19, 2012
Looking at the possible emergence of new nations from nigeria,i tend to look at middle belt as being divided into two blocks,the eastern MB and the western MB.the eastern MB includes plateau,benue,taraba,southern kaduna,nasarawa,southern adamawa,eastern kogi.the western MB includes western kogi,kwara,niger.the eastern MB group is the most likely of the two Middle belt groups to be involved in any kind of alliance,be it economic or political with the SE or SS.I suspect that the middle belters mentioned alongside asari dokubo in the article above are mostly from the eastern MB group.the western MB group are like a colonized group more inclined to the hausa/fulani north but could potentially be a flash point between hausa/fulani north and SW.I do not believe many in the SE and SS will want a political union with the eastern MB after nigerias disintegration,even if the eastern MB group is positively inclined towards a SE/SS/MB union post nigeria.the SE and SS may well prefer an eastern MB nation with good relations with SE/SS to serve as a buffer against the expantionist jihadist up north.while the jihadist hausa/fulani may not be having it easy in the eastern MB flank,they seem to have recorded some success in the western MB area and rather ambitiously or over ambitiously,have set their sights further south of the western MB into territories which do not belong to the north politically.the SE and SS will do well to harmonize their positions and interest bearing in mind the close proximity between them[ most SE and SS states share borders with one another] and the fact that ethnic south easterners are also undeniably part of the SS.
Re: Nigeria: Are New Nations Forming Even Without SNC? by karfe(m): 7:28pm On Mar 19, 2012
^^^^
ethnic south easterners are also undeniably part of the SS
smiley
Nice one!
Re: Nigeria: Are New Nations Forming Even Without SNC? by Nobody: 8:00pm On Mar 19, 2012
^^^
The delta Igbo,ugwashi uku,asaba,edo Igbo,ikwere,etche,part of opobo in rivers state and Igbo parts of northern rivers which were formerly in abia and imo state are ethnically south easterners but geographically south south.so SE and SS are ethnically intertwined.
Re: Nigeria: Are New Nations Forming Even Without SNC? by karfe(m): 10:56pm On Mar 19, 2012
chima12: ^^^
The delta Igbo,ugwashi uku,asaba,edo Igbo,ikwere,etche,part of opobo in rivers state and Igbo parts of northern rivers which were formerly in abia and imo state are ethnically south easterners but geographically south south.so SE and SS are ethnically intertwined.

Bros, they are ethnic Igbos. A referendum will probably be required for such areas to decide which region to join. I do not quite see the SS going with the SE. To be honest though, geographically, they look 'convenient' together as one region
Re: Nigeria: Are New Nations Forming Even Without SNC? by Nobody: 4:32am On Mar 20, 2012
^^^The SE is practically in the middle of SS with ethnic southeasterners having a very strong presence in rivers state,a very important part of the SS and states like akwaibom and cross river having closer proximity with the SE than with other states in the SS.It will all be settled at the negotiating table.

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