On the topic, Sagir Aliyu said: Yes, I'm in
support of BREAK UP. Because most
Nigerian minds are full of hatred,
sentiments, ethnicity, religious differences and
tribalism. Some are calling for revolution, but instead of
loosing lives and property; let the romance end. Also if
the 2015 election will result to loss of lives and
property, the romance should end before then, Please!
Idris Musa also commented on the subject: Break up is
long overdue. Why can some have freedom to perform
their religious rites while some are deprived? I can't
remain at home on Fridays like Christians do Sundays,
Marital dossiers is only emphasized for only one wife &
four children. Economically, we are considered
parasites because they refused to revamp agriculture.
They refused to explore oil deposits in more than five
places in my region. Let us break so that we have fresh
air.
Musa Maiunguwa: I beg it's long overdue! Let's break
up anyhow regardless of the consequences. I want to
be governed by ISLAMIC LAW not this Infidel system of
government. I hate to be governed by DRUNKARDS.
These comments were the prevalent type of response
from Northerners on facebook to my earlier article on
the subject, "Nigeria: Do We Need To Break This Up?"
A majority of northern masses are now making this call
as situations keep deteriorating in the nation and
undeserved ethnic insults and ethnic torment has
become the order of the day from certain quarters in
Nigeria. Additionally, it appears that Nigeria as
formatted and the perceived disenfranchisement of
certain aspects of the South, justify and subject us and
Nigeria as a whole to a most terrible regime that is
unable to secure life in the north and yield for us the
social, economic and developmental dividends of
democracy; as poverty reigns at its highest level in the
north which is unfairly economically disadvantaged.
Today, Nigeria has 100 million poor, however there is
an uneven distribution of the poverty with the South
doing more favorably, whereas the north suffers the
most with its level of poor as high as 80% living under a
dollar a day in many states, this compares to the south
that has levels from 20-50%. This level of poverty in
the north exceeds the level in neighboring Mali, Chad
and Niger, all sharing the northern ecological and
cultural demographics.
Trading blame as to who and what military and civilian
dictatorial and usurpist regime caused this high level of
poverty is puerile, meaningless and disingenuous; and
it contributes nothing towards addressing the real and
present epic crisis. Also, asserting that because
northern dictators have ruled the nation for 60% of its
independent life over 40% Southern rule is meaningless
and does not solve the deadly poverty situation.
The ordinary masses are suffering. We gain absolutely
nothing from Nigeria's oil, apart from what we buy of
it at the pumps at a price above the global mean, and
rather we suffer from oppression and terror as a
consequence of, and thanks to bloody oil money. Only
the cabal enjoy from the current state of Nigeria. Let it
be known that the voices of many so-called northern
leaders, which are obviously the loudest, do not
represent the sentiments of us suffering masses,
wrecked with poverty and lack of opportunity.
These 'northern elders' are part of a national cabal that
exploits and extorts the nation. These cabal obviously
have no honest interest in our region as can clearly be
seen by their lack of investment in the north, building
all their factories in the South. We the real people of
the north are eager for autonomy of our region. This is
our position.
The landlocked north is clearly disadvantaged. None of
the regimes provided the transportation networks to
link the north to Nigeria's ports as would have been the
basic and smallest requirement to re-establish a
northern economy.
Our agriculture industry has been left to decay. Our
textile industry has been completely abandoned, as we
suffer from the 'curse' of oil and the illusion of
Nigeria's wealth from a mono-economy, which has
satisfied and favored only a set of greedy cabal without
regional distinction, north, east, west or south. We see
regionalism with the plan of possible disintegration as
an urgent next best step towards a northern cultural
and economic awakening.
Many of us across Nigeria now agree that military
dictator; Aguiyi Ironsi made an error on 24 May 1966,
when he released Decree No. 34 which dissolved the
regions.
Excerpt: "The provisions of the Decree are intended to
remove the last vestiges of the intense regionalism of
the recent past, and to produce that cohesion in the
governmental structure which is so necessary in
achieving, and maintaining the paramount objective of
the National Military government, and indeed of every
true Nigerian, namely, national unity. The highlights of
this Decree are as follows: The former regions are
abolished, and Nigeria grouped into a number of
territorial areas called provinces. . . . Nigeria ceases to
be what has been described as a federation. It now
becomes simply the Republic of Nigeria."
We hope Nigerians in South territories share our
sentiments and will be happy to peacefully and
respectfully discuss modalities of separation into
economically independent regions which will test and
pave a path for emotional, marital, economical,
military and other national related changes and
challenges necessary for possible separation in the
future.

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