festacman:
The truth is that current structure of Nigeria is inhibiting our growth as country. We need to innovate or die. Therefore, Southern Nigeria Governors Forum and Southern NASS members should follow up their recent RESTRUCTURING resolution with CONCRETE actions.

The following actions are suggested:
1. Commission a broad-based thinktank to design a document that contains how the proposed restructuring should work and how it will take the country to greater heights. At the present, it's all rhetorics. We need a document, a restructuring roadmap proposal.

2. Submit the proposed plan to the president for his information as official proposals and position of Southern Nigeria, which will guide discussion with the North based on their own proposals and stand.

3. Table this proposed plan before Northern Governors Forum and National Assembly leadership as a prelude to roundtable talks.

4. Make it clear that the South will boycott 2023 elections if the North unilateraly reject the restructuring proposal for status quo. Insisting on status quo should be the DEAL-BREAKER

5 Make SMOOTH plans for state and geopolitical government and parliament.

Nigeria doesn't belong to the North. It is a multi-partner project. This is time to enforce active equal partnership or nothing.

budaatum:
Boycott democratic elections?

Hopefully the south would not be so stupid to do such a thing because those who did not boycott will be counted and will rule you for 4 years!

festacman:


To become a president of Nigeria, a candidate must receive a majority of the vote and over 25% of the vote in at least 24 of the 36 states i.e 2/3. The number of states in SS, SW and SE are 17. This means that, in the event of Election boycott, whoever contests the presidential election will NEVER meet the key constitutional requirement as only 19 states are remaining to participate.

Look, we must perish wimpy thoughts and step up like equal stakeholders in Nigerian project. If the whole Southern Nigeria rejects an election and its product, that product can NOT impose himself on the South. Dey never born the person.

budaatum:


The whole Southern Nigeria will not boycott an election, nor will everyone in any state. Damn, I can not believe I must be arguing this! Over in Georgia people are fighting those who are trying to take away peoples' right to vote and here is me arguing that you should not throw your right to vote away!

In a democracy, if say the 2 million voters in my state boycott, and I alone number 2 million and one vote, my candidate has won, and I alone would have imposed on the 2 million boycotters, I hope you know that. Now extrapolate that over Nigeria and let me know if you want to be democratically ruled by cattle because you refused to participate and boycotted please.

festacman:


Boycotting election means NO election in any polling booth anywhere in the South. Nobody comes out.

festacman:
By the way, your analysis is too tame. Why are you afraid? Are you from the North and deeply bothered about the suggested boycott? Look, if SW, SE and SS boycott election, it is either the North comes to the dialogue table and we all kiss Nigeria good bye.

budaatum:

INEC will come out. Election will hold. And one single person at least will vote and impose cattle on you!



I tire for you. You refuse to see the flaw in your position so I must be afraid from the North?

I am going to leave you to it festacman, knowing smart people will further educate you. Just know that I am from Yorubaland and I am not afraid at all really because I know that even as bad as our education in Nigeria is, we are not so dumb as to boycott the right to vote that we shed our blood to obtain.

festacman:


You don't seem to appreciate what it means if the 17 States of the Southern Nigeria and its people reach CONSENSUS to boycott 2023 to pressure for a REVIEW of the current constitution for prosperous and stable country. It means INEC will not be allowed in. NO ELECTION ANYWHERE IN ANY POLLING BOOTH IN SW, SE and SS.

Going by your position, it means that the South is helplessly trapped in Nigeria project. Perish this mentality. Unless you protest, the person standing on your feet stays firmly and blamelessly. Nigeria's Independence did not come by accepting status quo. No!, people agitated and protested before the colonial masters responded.

festacman:


You don't seem to appreciate what it means if the 17 States of the Southern Nigeria and its people reach CONSENSUS to boycott 2023 to pressure for a REVIEW of the current constitution for prosperous and stable country. It means INEC will not be allowed in. NO ELECTION ANYWHERE IN ANY POLLING BOOTH IN SW, SE and SS.

Going by your position, it means that the South is helplessly trapped in Nigeria project. Perish this mentality. Unless you protest, the person standing on your feet stays firmly and blamelessly. Nigeria's Independence did not come by accepting status quo. No!, people agitated and protested before the colonial masters responded.

Olominira:

Pls stop responding to him

festacman:


To become a president of Nigeria, a candidate must receive a majority of the vote and over 25% of the vote in at least 24 of the 36 states i.e 2/3. The number of states in SS, SW and SE are 17. This means that, in the event of Election boycott, whoever contests the presidential election will NEVER meet the key constitutional requirement as only 19 states are remaining to participate.

Look, we must perish wimpy thoughts and step up like equal stakeholders in Nigerian project. If the whole Southern Nigeria rejects an election and its product, that product can NOT impose himself on the South. Dey never born the person.

Olominira:
Ordinarily, you should allow him believe whatever he wants. 50% boycotting elections means no election....are southerners not the ones to run the elections in their respective states and regions? how many southerners still want a country with fulani terrorists in present day Nigeria?

Parliamentary elections were held in Nigeria on 30 December 1964, although they were not held until 18 March 1965 in some constituencies in Eastern Region, Lagos, and Mid-Western Region due to a boycott in December.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1964_Nigerian_general_election?wprov=sfla1

When an influential secessionist group called on people to boycott Anambra state’s election, many people expected the worst.

Ahead of the governorship poll on 18 November, the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) insisted that no election would take place unless Nigeria’s federal government agreed to hold an independence referendum for certain south-eastern states. A week before the election, IPOB supporters stepped up this campaign, marching on the streets and vowing to disrupt the election.

“If you vote you will die. Don’t go out, stay in your house. If you vote on November 18, you will die,” one of the protesters threatened in a video that soon went viral.

Nigerians therefore awaited the November poll with bated breath. IPOB has shown itself to be popular and its calls for a separate state of Biafra have significant support in the region. However, on the day itself, the process went ahead smoothly.
https://africanarguments.org/2017/11/nigeria-their-election-boycott-fell-flat-what-now-for-the-biafra-separatists/

festacman:


Boycotting election means NO election in any polling booth anywhere in the South. Nobody comes out.

By the way, your analysis is too tame. Why are you afraid? Are you from the North and deeply bothered about the suggested boycott? Look, if SW, SE and SS boycott election, it is either the North comes to the dialogue table and we all kiss Nigeria good bye.

Olominira:
Ordinarily, you should allow him believe whatever he wants. 50% boycotting elections means no election....are southerners not the ones to run the elections in their respective states and regions? how many southerners still want a country with fulani terrorists in present day Nigeria?

deantimes:


We in SS and SE want it, it must continue, you guys brought this nonsense in 2015 hoping to man the exalted office thereafter. It won't work. SS and SE will not boycott any election, if you SW want to that's your own

Olominira:
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Aboki face front

deantimes:


An Akwa Ibomite aboki? You must be stup.id, why seeking Southern unity now that your presidential ambition is threatened? Come and rule let's see. Mum.u

Olominira:
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festacman:


You don't seem to appreciate what it means if the 17 States of the Southern Nigeria and its people reach CONSENSUS to boycott 2023 to pressure for a REVIEW of the current constitution for prosperous and stable country. It means INEC will not be allowed in. NO ELECTION ANYWHERE IN ANY POLLING BOOTH IN SW, SE and SS.

Going by your position, it means that the South is helplessly trapped in Nigeria project. Perish this mentality. Unless you protest, the person standing on your feet stays firmly and blamelessly. Nigeria's Independence did not come by accepting status quo. No!, people agitated and protested before the colonial masters responded.

Racoon:
I totally agree with all especially 4 but will the southern sabotuers agree with this noble cause to free the region.Nigerian federation will never work.It is just flogging a dead horse.

thebosstrevor1:
Southerners want restructuring the country because a northern is in power.When a southern gets power in 2023, they will keep shut and start supporting.

The so called boycott of the election is a pipe dream, if southerners boycott the election then the northern will do similar boycott in another election leading to another choas

Racoon:
Then more viscious cycle of the chaos that will leads to self disintegration.Unity without veracity is a conspiracy.

thebosstrevor1:
Southerners want restructuring the country because a northern is in power.

When a southern gets power in 2023, they will keep shut and start supporting.

Who organized a confab? A southern president, why didn't he implement the recommendations of the confab when he was in power??

The so called boycott of the election is a pipe dream, if southerners boycott the election then the northern will do similar boycott in another election leading to another choas