Yesterday “One Nigeria”, today “One Nigeria”, tomorrow one will wake up with the same tone for a marriage that have lasted for over a century. In Nigeria today, “Referendum” and “Restructure” have been the trending words on media. Those that depend on Aso-Rock for daily bread persist that current situation in Nigeria will be over with time, politicians insist on restructure while the oppressed stick to referendum. When a white folk told me that “God wants Nigeria to be one” then I asked, if the God that created us with different in ethnicity, belief and value system or the one that amalgamated us.

The major crisis in Nigeria highlights the inability of amalgams to continue without restlessness.

Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu was the first who sought a bold solution to these problematic issues. Many have this that he failed, since he faced expulsion, and General Effiong surrendered to Gowon. But I firmly say that he has succeeded, because we stand on the foot and paradigm to fight for our modern generation. Ojukwu was a patriotic Nigeria, until the brutal intimidation of his own people began.
Even Awolowo from western Nigeria referred lucidly to Nigeria as "a mere geographical expression". That is to say, people are bound only by the earthly mass and nothing else; No common culture, religion, socio-political structure and psychological make-up. This is manifested by the way he cares just for his people and only for others when the background is attached. Nevertheless, Awolowo is not far from the truth because nepotism, ethnicism, favoritism and tribalism have eaten deep into the tissues of the population. You do not end a columnless form for supplying your tribe! To emphasize those to privilege and oust the Igbo man, the foreigner in his country.

From the current situation in Nigeria, one can conclude that Nigeria can never learn from history. One of the amalgamation rules states that; if the amalgamation does not work after 100 years, disintegration takes over. Our leaders have given a deaf ear to this. We can see what activists are capable of, but we always vote for ex-activists.

We tasted the fruits of agriculture before the emergence of crude oil, but we ignored and stupidly diverted from agriculture. All Igbo lost everything they had and received only 20 pounds after the civil war, but we continued to forget our homeland and develop other parts of the country. Without history, we are blind and we will be eternally lost in neo-colonialism and instability.

So how can we say there is unity in Nigeria when there is a constant bloodshed, when segregation, ethnic chauvinism are integrated into the system, when we cannot do without corruption, and especially when we are born violence without the enjoyment of the peace of parents.

Therefore, instead of winding around the pit of history, consider that the UK has left the EU without pulling a single blow. What they did was a simple referendum, which created the desire of the British to leave the EU to determine their own destiny. They called another general election, which seemed to have put the prime minister's ability to conduct procedures leading to the UK's final exit from the EU. I believe that a referendum option is a better choice than the very essential methods used to solve the problems of our continued existence as a nation.

As a friend fondly says “Although soon Igbo people can be people issued with green cards, as it is done for foreigners. But I am sure that by that time any Biafra born will receive her wage or salary, once born in the Republic of Biafra, constant water supply and electricity and so on...”

Source: http://www.up9ja.com/2017/07/biafra-for-referendum.html