sanesta:
now, Akwa Ibom is more developed than cross river

Thats the reasons for state creation so as to bring development closer to the people.

This aided Nigeria's development in a long way.

In Nigeria we are sure of 36 sure cities(capital)

No other African country can boast of that

Daum:


Happened within few days and you guys left. We had no business with the war and we didn't see it as a tribal conflict. But let me remind you and your kind that nurse that idea, one inch of what is in Edo state won't go to you guys that's if we even allow you people come close to Agbor.

you were only important during the slave trade,your empire was built on blood,on slavery,since the abolition of slavery,where is your empire?
When the time comes,none of our people will be lost.

gidgiddy:


What are you talking about? Dont you know that this 5 Eastern states were created by military rulers? Is Igbo land limited to the 5 states? What about the Igbos that were carved into Benue? What about Asaba people? What about Oyigbo? Should Igbos forget other Igbos because of bothers drawn up drunk military leaders?

When Nigeria is restructured, there must be a referendum for everyone to decide which Region they want to belong to.

Any restructuring without a holistic referendum for every constituent parts to chose where to belong will not work.
I don't think that the Oyibo or the Egbema will want to remain divided in different states despite being one people. Likewise, I don't think the likes of Ikwerre will want to go back to old Rivers and be reduced to 2nd class as opposed to their current dominant position in Rivers.

There must be a referendum and the people giving at least 2 or more options to choose from in regards to where they want to be.

Haywhysat:
Better. We should have about 5 regions.

Western region, Middle belt, Niger Delta, Eastern region and Core North

Supported... If only Northerners dey reason like this, who go dey talk about secession? We can run nations as one big nation. If na oil be problem, lets us sign agreement or sharing of resources but let all ethnic regions be independent.

obiekunie2:


my brother i beg to disagree with you.

we are not going to force anybody to be among us.

any group desirous of being on their own are free to do so.

Thank You bro, but he later modified it, that it will be done by referendum. We igbos cannot force anyone to join us. We are self sufficient and naturally independent.

eyiolarhomisore:
I foresee Nigeria breaking before 2023

Make e break abeg... In fact, someone should initiate the #tag on Twitter. Let those who want sars stay one side and those wey no want stay the other side.

I don't understand why a SEner should be the one championing the cause of Igboids.
On the surface you will think you are doing Ndiigbo a favour, but on deep examination, you will find out that all this your attache by force does is to present Ndiigbo as a needy people who can't survive without the Igboids , like our viability as a region depends on having these Igboids come with us. This in turn creates a sense of suspicion among the Igboids who now see us as parasites looking to leech on them and our desire to be in same region with them as a ploy to dominate and them. Consequently, you create a false sense of importance in these Igboid groups to the detriment of Ndiigbo.

You demean Ndiigbo with these senseless talks.
Let the Igboids be. SE is very much viable without them . As much as it would be cool to have all Igboids join us, our sustenance and success as a region is not tied to their joining or not joining us. We are self sufficient.

You can't be demanding for a referendum for a people you are not part of. That smacks of insensitivity, arrogance and sheer ignorance. I don't know if IPOB and her supporters analyse these things before coming to public with them.
Referendum is what a people call for themselves not what an external body presents to them.

If the Igboids want referendum, let them be the ones to champion it. It should be none of your business.
Common sense is not common these days in Igbo land. Chai! Alu Melu.

Redcrafton:


Every region should be semi-autonomous.

You don't need to go to Abuja for building your roads.

One region can decide to build their road and toll it...keeping the roads in good shape...while the other region might decide not to toll their roads and have them in bad conditions. Its up to them and their people.

This is against the current situation where the minister in charge in Abuja decides which roads to build.

Don't we already have each state building its own roads and we see the mess they have made of it. State roads are worse than FG roads.

amc:


Don't we already have each state building its own roads and we see the mess they have made of it. State roads are worse than FG roads.

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You might be talking about your state.

In SE most motorist use the state roads to navigate the gully Federal roads that is being repaired since 1999.

I know you are trying to be mischievous as you know the truth.

The FG concentrates on the north and SW.

What about the loan the FG talk and excluded the SE in the projects to be executed? What lies will you tell about this?

engrchykae:
you were only important during the slave trade,your empire was built on blood,on slavery,since the abolition of slavery,where is your empire?
When the time comes,none of our people will be lost.

Yes we know Empires rise and fall. The time for imperial glory has passed but you see that igbanke, just forget it

Coronabirus:

OTHERS HAVE BEEN MAKING AUDIO NOISE ABOUT RESTRUCTURING BUT THEY FAIL TO PRODUCE ANY DOCUMENT THAT WILL GUIDE & DEFINE THE TERM RESTRUCTURING TO THE NATION
After years of non committed propaganda by some groups, finally the real heroes have spoken. Media opposition & unguarded utterances are not enough to achieve a complex achievable policy objectives. If my southern brothers were serious about restructuring they would've followed the legal and acceptable way to push their agenda rather than just calling others names for agenda they can't even define. Though restructuring is opposition in disguise now the real men make the right move, through legal & acceptable means to get the nation restructured.
Average Northerners don't like the current marriage if you doubt me go & see their social media reactions about Nigeria. The political class want Nigeria to remain in their hands for personal gain. The reality is we need to restructure in the interest of all not the way Igbos want it. Igbos hate Nigeria with passion & they only want her fall down which they can never witness (I'm not instigating them but it can be seen clearly in their utterances).
Northerners have leadership DNA, this can be seen from this proposal. The truth is North isn't rejecting restructuring but they've consistently been asking what are we going to restructure? When they ask this question all the agitators look confuse in their definition of restructuring with no clear direction. North understood the sinister in 2014 CONFAB which have about 800 representatives from a state with less than 2m people and Kano was asked to be represented with less than 100 delegates. There were lots of selfishness agenda in the CONFAB.
If not because of ignorance of governance, how can you be asking President to restructure a nation or use unconstitutional CONFAB to restructure while we've NASS & everyone is fully represented in the house? Legislators are responsible for making laws not Executives but the barking dogs are always shooting at a wrong target.
Their ignorance of governance couldn't come with clear request for restructuring untill North seize this chance to use the opportunity of constitutional amendment offered by NASS asking every group to submit their demands.
I hope the restructuring will involve 85% resource control by states not selfish sinister of leeches hiding behind region to extort and drain other states with FG retaining the remaining 25%. Many people see sovereign nation as a toy game; we've military, foreign envoys, foreign and local intelligence, security agencies, and lots of other critical govt organs which require good funding for the nation to remain relevance in he eye of the world. Now Nigerians are hated almost everywhere in the world which is attributed to the bad attitude of few Nigerians exported to others nations, we need to be stronger in this chaos & war prone world because the moment we're weaken militarily & financially some little countries will threaten our existence!

I am sorry but has it ever occurred to you that the Northerners,the Middle belt not included,have an iota of leadership quality in them compared to the Southerners?
No,of course not.What they have in their DNA is selfishness cum backwardness.
This can be observed in the way they have retar.ded the growth of Nigeria in almost all positive indices.

Going for the 12 states structure is still them showing their selfish backward instincts. They have never accepted the various ways the more enlightened, sophisticated and developed South had always brought forward.

The best way to restructure Nigeria is to go back to the golden time of regionalism but a reformed and modified one which would allow each region to grow at its own pace with a lot of healthy competitions.

Your Northern leaders proposing the 12 states structure are still just lazy to think out of the box.

A lot of Southerners have proposed very splendid ways of restructuring Nigeria but you Hausa/Fulani want something close to the status quo where you can use your fraudulently concocted population to still keep the country down.

The time of regionalism says a lot about the people with leadership DNA.

This is one out of the various ways Nigeria can be restructured positively.






Why regionalism/restructuring Nigeria is vital

By Opinion on April 15, 2020.


Regionalism has come back to prominence, as the political, economic, cultural and social meaning of space is changing in contemporary Europe. In some ways, politics, economics and public policies are de-territorialising; but at the same time and in other ways, there is re-territorialisation of economic, political and government activity. The “new regionalism” is the product of this decomposition and recomposition of the territorial framework of public life, consequent on changes in the states, the market and the international context. Functional needs, institutional restructuring and political mobilisation all play a role. Regionalism must now be placed in the context of the international market and the European Union, as well as the nation-state.

Since the inception of the President Muhammadu Buhari-led administration, there have been calls for restructuring. This current system being practiced in Nigeria has failed the whole country. The whole country is on fire. What is the way out? Regionalism or restructuring is the answer. It has worked for us before but the only defect is that it promoted ethnic loyalty but on the contrary, regionalism brought development into the country. The three regions were highly competitive and this brought about rapid development.

The West till today enjoys the legacy regionalism gave the country. Majority of the residents of the West are highly educated which has and is still bringing unprecedented growth. The flairs of the type of regionalism practiced during the 1st republic should be worked on and Nigeria should be given an upgraded version.

This current system of governance in practice only makes the politicians lazy. Most of the states are in financial trouble because of the failure of past and successive governments to prepare for the worst. With an improved regional system, the problem of laziness would be curbed to a large extent. It was under regionalism that Nigeria was a pride to Africa. Do not also forget that when Nigeria was practicing regionalism, there was no oil yet discovered. Now that we are in a world whereby oil is falling; regionalism is the answer to Nigeria’s wake up call.

More so, restructuring is a song also on the lips of many Nigerians. It has trended for decades and seems to be an inter-generational topical issue in Nigeria. The persistent call for restructuring takes numerous dimensions, but particularly outstanding is in the dimension of politics. It is no surprise though, because the philosophy behind the existence of every state and the control of its resources bothers on politics. Therefore, when there is a damaged cog in the wheel of the politics of the state, it becomes imperative to politically restructure the state.

Nigeria as a sovereign state is one that has numerous ethno-tribal groups as matched with its vast territory, large population and enormous land mass. Each of the locales within the Nigerian territory is endowed with either one mineral, vegetative or other natural resources and/or a correspondence of resident human resources (population). In view of this, any knowledgeable administrative analyst would suggest the adoption of the federalist political structure, so as to ensure efficient administration of both the vast territories of Nigeria and its ethno-tribal heterogeneous population.

This is what has been administratively put in place as a political mechanism for governance within the Nigerian polity. The current Nigerian political structure which has its roots in the 1946 Sir, Arthur Richard’s constitution of Nigeria, right from its inception till now has shown symptoms of administratively sick system of government resulting from such issues as the issue of resources control, outcry of marginalisation, issue of ethno-tribal and regional discrimination, and issue of ensuring that every citizen irrespective of age, sex, religion, ethnic, linguistic, regional or tribal affiliation is given a sense of belonging to the country.

Nigeria is Africa’s biggest economy and the most populous black nation on earth. Yet, regional economic inequality and the lop-sidedness of Nigeria’s political system have led to a series of protracted conflicts. The country is currently embroiled in crises similar to the tumultuous time after independence in 1960, when regional and ethnic tensions erupted in a vicious power struggle.

Back then, following a coup against the northern-led government in January 1966, thousands of Igbos living in the northern region were forced to flee to their homeland following the outbreak ethnic clashes. In 1967, Odumegwu Ojukwu, an Igbo military officer, proclaimed the independence of Republic of Biafra, leading to Nigeria’s first bloody civil war, which ended in 1970. Over forty years later, desires for a breakaway still linger. Both the Movement for the Actualisation of the Sovereign State of Biafra (MASSOB) and the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) aim to restore the state of Biafra and challenge Nigeria’s current political structure.

Despite being a federal republic, Nigeria has a unitary constitutional arrangement in which the federal government wields overarching powers. Like the United States of America, Nigeria is structured as a federation with 36 states, one federal territory, and 774 Local Government Areas (LGAs), including Abuja. However, unlike the United States, the central government controls the revenues and nearly all of the country’s resources, especially oil and natural gas. Revenues accrue in the Federation Account, where it is allocated monthly to the states and the LGAs, by a federal executive body, the Revenue Mobilisation, Allocation, and Fiscal Commission (RMAFC).

The political structure has not always been this way. Prior to the creation of the present-day state of affairs in 1967, Nigeria had four regions under the 1963 constitution, namely Northern Nigeria, Eastern Nigeria, Western Nigeria and Mid-Western Nigeria. Without federal government allocation or revenue from oil, export crops were central to shaping the economy of the four regions, and served as the country’s main source of foreign currency. Political federalism reduced the power of the central government.

Thus, national debate and calls for restructuring are nothing new, but they continue to grow amid economic stress, political uncertainty and recurrent violent conflicts across the country. Especially, ahead of the February 2019 elections, the push for restructuring of Nigeria’s political system is gaining momentum. Groups from the south, which have long championed the call for restructuring in defence of regional economic development, are particularly vocal in their demands for upending the current centralisation of political power.

One of the leading voices challenging the current political structure is current-president Muhammadu Buhari’s running mate in the 2011 election Pastor Tunde Bakare. Bakare emphasised that the time has come for decentralisation to improve regional capabilities and increase local abilities to generate revenues. Currently, Nigeria’s centralisation of political power distorts its political economy by encouraging redistribution instead of productivity. By themselves, most of the constituent parts of the country are not economically viable: Nearly 70 per cent of Nigeria’s state revenue comes from an oil-rich region about the size of Ireland.

While there is broad and general support for a new constitution in the south and the middle-belt, the north has a vested interest in maintaining the status quo. Fear that change would lead to political domination and economic collapse in the region has resulted in heightened tensions across the country. While the existing constitution is unpopular, especially in the south, rewriting it will not be an easy undertaking. What a new constitution might entail remains controversial and contested.

Yet, restructuring, in the form of political decentralisation and a differential economic model, is necessary, if not sufficient, for solving some of the country’s most vexing problems. To create a more economically viable and politically functional country, Nigeria needs to overhaul its political system. While such changes might, in the short term, trigger upheaval, upset entrenched power arrangements, and exacerbate existing tensions, in the long-term, political restructuring would be beneficial for both north and south. As former President Ibrahim Badamosi Babangida stated in 2017, Nigeria’s future is inextricably linked to restructuring its political system. However, political restructuring will only succeed if pursued in a democratically legitimated, participatory and coordinated manner.

The issue of restructuring Nigeria political structure is a topical issue that trends on the front page of the paper of every Nigerians or elite in Nigeria. No matter how one wants to elude it, this issue needs a quality look and an addressing touch. Therefore, all Nigerians and our leaders should stop playing the ostrich on the issue of restructuring the Nigeria political structure. A joint effort towards restructuring the Nigerian federalism will make Nigeria a better country where needless tensions and conflicts are minimal and where the sub-national governments are not reduced to mere appendages. So, urgent steps need to be taken so as to change the status quo to one that will work despite the multifarious ethnic-regional nationalities in the country.

Which Oduduwa. Its Yorubaland

toye440:
All we are saying give us Oduduwa Republic.

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WHY DON'T THEY ROOT FOR 3 REGIONS? THAT WAS LEGITIMATE.