With the developments at the ongoing National conference, i doubt if we can achieve any proper restructuring in this fourth republic
Instead of negociating how to stay together, why not negociate the preamble of our constitution.
The preamble lied against the every Nigerian by stating that we have agreed to live togeher in unity and harmony, No we havent. Why not just try to find out the acceptancy of this preamble which is the begining of our constitution which create this entity call Nigeria.
Nigeria isnt one and can never be one except if we have a condition for being one. We will be one when we ask ourself why must we be in Nigeria and we find our answer easily.
Some people may say for oil, but others doesnt want to stay because they believe they are stealling their oil. Nigeria can be a unified country only when the every entity from the smallest to the biggest tribe,community,state,clan,society have a condition for being in Nigeria and their condition is being satisfied.
Nigeria will be unify when everybody have something to lose if Nigeria fall, in this case patroism to your tribe will mean patroism to Nigeria, patroism to your state will means patroism to Nigeria, patroism to your community will means patroism to Nigeria.

In order to unify, we must unify under one entity before Nigeria and this entity is state.
Some ethnic spread over a number of state while some state have countless number of ethnics.
If we are to unify Nigeria, we must unify the states first and if we want to unify the states we must allow people to choose their state, organize it and create its goverment. What I mean here is that each community must accept to be in their state, if there is no agreement between ethnic groups, they can create a state of their own, as long as they have a population of up to 200000,. There is no problem if we have 200 states as long as they are unified. Each state must also have a constitution signed by the parliament of each LG or accept by a referendum in the state.
If every people in every state agree to be one entity, the national problem can be solve using the house of senate.
The senate should be appoint by state house of assembly or by state law so that the senators can fight for their state well in the house of senate

Instead of this national conference, we should review our state and when every state have its own constitution, then we can ask each state to send delegates for a national convention where each state will say what it need from Nigeria and what they are ready to pay, at the end of the convention atleast half of the states must pass its resolution in their house of assembly and those who didnt shouldnt be force to work with it by allowing them to get out of this country or allow them to operate as Special autonomous region(SAM) like hong kong and maccau inside china, or sicily,sardinia, aosta valley in italy etc.

Frankly,this National conference failed Nigeria the very day they refused to discuss Nigeria unity.
Today,every Nigeria does not really believe in Nigeria even when the constitution made us think we are one. I personally believe Nigeria should remain one but still think it is necessary to hear the view of others. The outcome of the negotiation of the unity/oneness of Nigeria should have directed the opinions of the delegates to the National conference. Since they failed to discuss it,the conference was turned to North versus South, as if we are not talking of a nation that is deemed one.
So,Op,i strongly support the points you raised and i wish the discussion on nigeria unity be made because it is now very clear that the clock of Nigeria disintegration is ticking faster than that of nigeria unity. If need be,a mini-confab be held here in Nairaland.

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