Northern Nigeria,

I am compelled to ask you these all important questions hoping that I will get some honest answers. Northern Nigeria, please note that these questions are not born out of hatred, malice or any other, but from a clear conscience and from a fellow Nigerian who feels disatified with everything coming from the North yet bears no grudge.

First, you have had the biggest tenure in terms of presidency of Nigeria, military and democratic system of government put together yet you are hell bent on retaining same even after 2023. Why have you chosen to disregard zoning and federal character which you were the architect of in time past?

Again, despite the number of years leadership has been domiciled in your hands, your region is the worst developed. Your people live below poverty level with the menace of Terrorism, herdsmen, banditry, kidnapping and diseases ravaging you in great proportions.

Secondly, Northern Nigeria your Southern counterparts have for so long agitated for independence and you have refused to so to it that at least a referendum is conducted to allow people choose where to belong. You seems to have forgetton so soon that this same refusal is what led to the Nigerian civil war of 1967 with millions of nigerians, men, women and children wasted including properties worth trillions of Naira.

Why do you prefer violence in solving every simple issue? You have fastened your seat belt, cocked your guns, shappened your cutlasses and waiting for the slightest provocation to strike because it is a must that Nigeria remain as one.

Dear North, what exactly is your fear in this whole self determination of thing? Why do detest it so much including those who champion it? Is there a covenant to this one Nigeria that only you the northerners are privy to? If yes, who activated the covenant? For what, where, how, when and who activated the covenant?

Do you not have enough land to graze your cattle? Are your grasses lacking in protein and cabohydrate, water and vitamin that it must be the South that will bear the brunt of your reckless abandonment. Why do you take pleasure in spilling the blood of the innocent, you marry underage, you rape, main, kill and so on.

Northern Nigeria, why do you feel so comfortable squandering our national cake coming predominantly from the South without a dime contribution. You own your gold, cattle, farm produce but yet commandeers NNPC, NIMASA, NPA etc.

What is your genuine reason for wanting an expired and a failed marriage to continue as though nothing is wrong even if it cost the head of every Nigerian?

The food you ate b4 coming to write this trash on the north is more than 70% northern. What with the tomato, pepper, chillies, meat, onions, kpomo, rice etc. that are grown by northerners. Yet u have the effrontery, the audacity, the ungrateful ness, cheekiness, the impoliteness, the stupidity to come and insult the very people who feed you, shege dan shege, dan bro uba

i dont think anyone who makes these decisions is on this website

The North is the most underdeveloped says someone living in Abia

NoSentiment:
The food you ate b4 coming to write this trash on the north is more than 70% northern. What with the tomato, pepper, chillies, meat, onions, kpomo, rice etc. that are grown by northerners. Yet u have the effrontery, the audacity, the ungrateful ness, cheekiness, the impoliteness, the stupidity to come and insult the very people who feed you, shege dan shege, dan bro uba

the food that I ate today none of it comes from the north,for example,I ate fufu and bitter leaf soup,we plant cassava that we processed to form fufu,we cultivate bitter leaf,we cultivate Coco yam that we use to cook it,we have red oil here,we have cray fish and so on,so let me tell you,the staple food that we eat in the east,we cultivate it,all we are getting from the north are tomato,groundnut,garbage,carrot,beans,etc,and we have substitutions for all the it,so Mr man go and rest.

NoSentiment:
The food you ate b4 coming to write this trash on the north is more than 70% northern. What with the tomato, pepper, chillies, meat, onions, kpomo, rice etc. that are grown by northerners. Yet u have the effrontery, the audacity, the ungrateful ness, cheekiness, the impoliteness, the stupidity to come and insult the very people who feed you, shege dan shege, dan bro uba

The poverty capital is actually feeding the other regions...isn't that paradoxically wonderful?
In real life, If I buy clothes from your shop or boutique, that doesn't translate to you clothing me. It means I clothe myself and only decide to help your road side business by buying from you and not from eBay or Dubai.

Mr. iPoB, is it Northern Nigeria that put up or amalgamated northern and southern Nigeria?

Why do you always call on us to break Nigeria?

In fact, northern Nigeria it was that didn't want the union then, but you all want it. Why blame us for what you initially desired?

If you are sincere to yourself, as you claimed to be, call on Lord Lugard or Britain to break it up, not any northerner or northern Niger Area.

Xxxx

freegaza:
The North is the most underdeveloped says someone living in Abia

Abia is the 3rd or 2nd most developed state in the South

Ofodirinwa:


Abia is the 3rd or 2nd most developed state in the South

Then the south is very backward and undeveloped.

https://www.nairaland.com/5507372/abia-state-worst-state-nigeria

There are no roads like this in the North, not even in local governments 200 kilometres away from the state capitals

freegaza:


Then the south is very backward and undeveloped.

https://www.nairaland.com/5507372/abia-state-worst-state-nigeria

There are roads like this in the North, not even in local governments 200 kilometres away from the state capitals

The north is the only place in the world that still has polio. Everywhere has their plus and minus

Ofodirinwa:


The north is the only place in the world that still has polio. Everywhere has their plus and minus

And the East is the only place in Nigeria that has 76% of its population in the North and Southwestern parts of Nigeria.

Ofodirinwa:


The north is the only place in the world that still has polio. Everywhere has their plus and minus

.

When did Rivers, Abia, Bayelsa and Delta became North?

Executive Director of the National Primary Healthcare Development Agency (NPHCDA), Dr Faisal Shuaib, who stated this at the second quarter meeting of the Northern Traditional Leaders Committee on Primary Healthcare Delivery (NTLC), yesterday, in Abuja, disclosed that there are cVDPV2 outbreaks in FCT, Jigawa, Kano, Kebbi, Lagos, Niger, Rivers, Sokoto, Yobe, Zamfara Abia, Bayelsa, Borno and Delta States, noting that the agency has conducted four Outbreak Response strategies (OBRs) using the Novelle Oral Polio Vaccine which is a preferred choice as it doesn’t seed the virus.

https://m.guardian.ng/news/government-warns-of-circulating-vaccine-derived-poliovirus-type-2-in-13-states-fct/

referendum01:
Northern Nigeria,

I am compelled to ask you these all important questions hoping that I will get some honest answers. Northern Nigeria, please note that these questions are not born out of hatred, malice or any other, but from a clear conscience and from a fellow Nigerian who feels disatified with everything coming from the North yet bears no grudge.

First, you have had the biggest tenure in terms of presidency of Nigeria, military and democratic system of government put together yet you are hell bent on retaining same even after 2023. Why have you chosen to disregard zoning and federal character which you were the architect of in time past?

Again, despite the number of years leadership has been domiciled in your hands, your region is the worst developed. Your people live below poverty level with the menace of Terrorism, herdsmen, banditry, kidnapping and diseases ravaging you in great proportions.

Secondly, Northern Nigeria your Southern counterparts have for so long agitated for independence and you have refused to so to it that at least a referendum is conducted to allow people choose where to belong. You seems to have forgetton so soon that this same refusal is what led to the Nigerian civil war of 1967 with millions of nigerians, men, women and children wasted including properties worth trillions of Naira.

Why do you prefer violence in solving every simple issue? You have fastened your seat belt, cocked your guns, shappened your cutlasses and waiting for the slightest provocation to strike because it is a must that Nigeria remain as one.

Dear North, what exactly is your fear in this whole self determination of thing? Why do detest it so much including those who champion it? Is there a covenant to this one Nigeria that only you the northerners are privy to? If yes, who activated the covenant? For what, where, how, when and who activated the covenant?

Do you not have enough land to graze your cattle? Are your grasses lacking in protein and cabohydrate, water and vitamin that it must be the South that will bear the brunt of your reckless abandonment. Why do you take pleasure in spilling the blood of the innocent, you marry underage, you rape, main, kill and so on.

Northern Nigeria, why do you feel so comfortable squandering our national cake coming predominantly from the South without a dime contribution. You own your gold, cattle, farm produce but yet commandeers NNPC, NIMASA, NPA etc.

What is your genuine reason for wanting an expired and a failed marriage to continue as though nothing is wrong even if it cost the head of every Nigerian?

Section 2(1) of the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria 1999 as Amended states that Nigeria is one indivisible and indissoluble sovereign state. This clearly means that Nigeria is a sovereign state that cannot be split or divided into parts neither can any part of or group of people in Nigeria seced from Nigeria.
Any President irrespective of his ethnic, regional or religious background is bound and compel to abide by this section of the constitution, if he fails to abide by it then he's bound to face court for treason and may subsequently be subjected to death penalty after being impeached. There are many forces beyond President's power. This section of the constitution quoted was imposed on us by Nnamdi Azikwe in his dream of conquering Nigeria by his tribe and inserted the clause of one Nigeria.
Northerners are 80-90% farmers, more than 70% of domestic fish we consume in Nigeria is from Baga, Borno state
Nigeria's GDP is $400b (2020); look at the GDP of different sectors and commodities in Nigeria and assess who control the major stake of Nigeria's economy: Accommodation, food, transportation and real estate: 12.2%, Education, health, science and technology: 6.3%, Farming, forestry and fishing : 30.5%, Manufacturing, mining and quarrying: 11.3%
Retail, maintenance, repair, and operations: 24.9%
Managerial, finance and insurance: 4.2%
Telecommunication, arts and entertainment: 1.8%, Other services: 8.8%.
Going by the given statistics above it can be seen that Education, health, science and technology, Entertainment, manufacturing, Telecommunication, arts and entertainment that South claim to be controlling are not up to 30.5% of GDP contributed by farming and fishing mainly control and done by Northerners (North) while for all other stakes Northerners are either into them en masse or are the main actors.
South have media and can say or propagate whatever they want others to believe or hear but can never change facts, there is no way a person who contributes the most to the Nation's economy (GDP) will be called with the derogatory names that south always do.
Southerners call us almajiri, poor, illiterates but in reality Southern Nigerian women make up the largest proportion of black Prostitutes in Europe; southern women sell sex in the nooks and crannies of Nigeria, they sell sex in war ravaged Libya, Niger Republic, Chad and Burkina Faso. Southerners are in exponential number trafficking their youths abroad for sex slavery & menial jobs, they open baby factories in exchange for money and it's clear that only poverty ravaged people will endanger their lives for such inhumane struggle for survival. You claim to be educated and at the same time complaining that we're snatching ur jobs and I can't see reason how illiterates can snatch the jobs of literate people.
A German Teacher asked his pupils to draw Africa and to his greatest dismay they all drew a filthy continent with malnourished people living in tents. The Teacher showed them beautiful cities of Egypt, Tunisia, Algeria, South Africa, and told them that these cities are also Africa; this is a pure analogy of how southerners are brainwashed to see North from far. In as much as southern politicians and clerics will keep using media propaganda to tell them bad things about North to keep brainwashing them and loot their treasury then Southerners are real definition of educated illiterates!

NoSentiment:
The food you ate b4 coming to write this trash on the north is more than 70% northern. What with the tomato, pepper, chillies, meat, onions, kpomo, rice etc. that are grown by northerners. Yet u have the effrontery, the audacity, the ungrateful ness, cheekiness, the impoliteness, the stupidity to come and insult the very people who feed you, shege dan shege, dan bro uba

so northerners share all this valuelless items for free?
I thought you have sense..

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Coronabirus:

Section 2(1) of the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria 1999 as Amended states that Nigeria is one indivisible and indissoluble sovereign state. This clearly means that Nigeria is a sovereign state that cannot be split or divided into parts neither can any part of or group of people in Nigeria seced from Nigeria.
Any President irrespective of his ethnic, regional or religious background is bound and compel to abide by this section of the constitution, if he fails to abide by it then he's bound to face court for treason and may subsequently be subjected to death penalty after being impeached. There are many forces beyond President's power. This section of the constitution quoted was imposed on us by Nnamdi Azikwe in his dream of conquering Nigeria by his tribe and inserted the clause of one Nigeria.
Northerners are 80-90% farmers, more than 70% of domestic fish we consume in Nigeria is from Baga, Borno state
Nigeria's GDP is $400b (2020); look at the GDP of different sectors and commodities in Nigeria and assess who control the major stake of Nigeria's economy: Accommodation, food, transportation and real estate: 12.2%, Education, health, science and technology: 6.3%, Farming, forestry and fishing : 30.5%, Manufacturing, mining and quarrying: 11.3%
Retail, maintenance, repair, and operations: 24.9%
Managerial, finance and insurance: 4.2%
Telecommunication, arts and entertainment: 1.8%, Other services: 8.8%.
Going by the given statistics above it can be seen that Education, health, science and technology, Entertainment, manufacturing, Telecommunication, arts and entertainment that South claim to be controlling are not up to 30.5% of GDP contributed by farming and fishing mainly control and done by Northerners (North) while for all other stakes Northerners are either into them en masse or are the main actors.
South have media and can say or propagate whatever they want others to believe or hear but can never change facts, there is no way a person who contributes the most to the Nation's economy (GDP) will be called with the derogatory names that south always do.
Southerners call us almajiri, poor, illiterates but in reality Southern Nigerian women make up the largest proportion of black Prostitutes in Europe; southern women sell sex in the nooks and crannies of Nigeria, they sell sex in war ravaged Libya, Niger Republic, Chad and Burkina Faso. Southerners are in exponential number trafficking their youths abroad for sex slavery & menial jobs, they open baby factories in exchange for money and it's clear that only poverty ravaged people will endanger their lives for such inhumane struggle for survival. You claim to be educated and at the same time complaining that we're snatching ur jobs and I can't see reason how illiterates can snatch the jobs of literate people.
A German Teacher asked his pupils to draw Africa and to his greatest dismay they all drew a filthy continent with malnourished people living in tents. The Teacher showed them beautiful cities of Egypt, Tunisia, Algeria, South Africa, and told them that these cities are also Africa; this is a pure analogy of how southerners are brainwashed to see North from far. In as much as southern politicians and clerics will keep using media propaganda to tell them bad things about North to keep brainwashing them and loot their treasury then Southerners are real definition of educated illiterates!

stop writing nonsense....
Azikiwe arranged 1999 constitution.?
With all the good things you wrote about the north,can you just take them and go your way..just take a good look at chad,mali,Niger ,this poor countries will even be better than northern Nigeria without the south and they know it..
Parasite they are and parasites they will remain.

MalcoImX:


And the East is the only place in Nigeria that has 76% of its population in the North and Southwestern parts of Nigeria.

lol nope

[quote author=Coronabirus post=103955627]
Section 2(1) of the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria 1999 as Amended states that Nigeria is one indivisible and indissoluble sovereign state. This clearly means that Nigeria is a sovereign state that cannot be split or divided into parts neither can any part of or group of people in Nigeria seced from Nigeria.
Any President irrespective of his ethnic, regional or religious background is bound and compel to abide by this section of the constitution, if he fails to abide by it then he's bound to face court for treason and may subsequently be subjected to death penalty after being impeached. There are many forces beyond President's power. This section of the constitution quoted was imposed on us by Nnamdi Azikwe in his dream of conquering Nigeria by his tribe and inserted the clause of one Nigeria.
Northerners are 80-90% farmers, more than 70% of domestic fish we consume in Nigeria is from Baga, Borno state
Nigeria's GDP is $400b (2020); look at the GDP of different sectors and commodities in Nigeria and assess who control the major stake of Nigeria's economy: Accommodation, food, transportation and real estate: 12.2%, Education, health, science and technology: 6.3%, Farming, forestry and fishing : 30.5%, Manufacturing, mining and quarrying: 11.3%
Retail, maintenance, repair, and operations: 24.9%
Managerial, finance and insurance: 4.2%
Telecommunication, arts and entertainment: 1.8%, Other services: 8.8%.
Going by the given statistics above it can be seen that Education, health, science and technology, Entertainment, manufacturing, Telecommunication, arts and entertainment that South claim to be controlling are not up to 30.5% of GDP contributed by farming and fishing mainly control and done by Northerners (North) while for all other stakes Northerners are either into them en masse or are the main actors.
South have media and can say or propagate whatever they want others to believe or hear but can never change facts, there is no way a person who contributes the most to the Nation's economy (GDP) will be called with the derogatory names that south always do.
Southerners call us almajiri, poor, illiterates but in reality Southern Nigerian women make up the largest proportion of black Prostitutes in Europe; southern women sell sex in the nooks and crannies of Nigeria, they sell sex in war ravaged Libya, Niger Republic, Chad and Burkina Faso. Southerners are in exponential number trafficking their youths abroad for sex slavery & menial jobs, they open baby factories in exchange for money and it's clear that only poverty ravaged people will endanger their lives for such inhumane struggle for survival. You claim to be educated and at the same time complaining that we're snatching ur jobs and I can't see reason how illiterates can snatch the jobs of literate people.
A German Teacher asked his pupils to draw Africa and to his greatest dismay they all drew a filthy continent with malnourished people living in tents. The Teacher showed them beautiful cities of Egypt, Tunisia, Algeria, South Africa, and told them that these cities are also Africa; this is a pure analogy of how southerners are brainwashed to see North from far. In as much as southern politicians and clerics will keep using media propaganda to tell them bad things about North to keep brainwashing them and loot their treasury then Southerners are real definition of educated illiterates![/quote.
Do you know that they money that southerners in diaspora remit back to Nigeria every year, is more than Nigeria's annual budget.

WHAT REALLY IS THE NORTH AND SOUTH? PRESIDENCY SHOULD ROTATE BY CONSTITUTIONAL STATES. WE HAVE 36 CONSTITUTIONAL STATES. KATSINA, OGUN NIGER, KANO ANAMBRA BAYELSA HAVE RULED NIGERIA. THE NEXT PRESIDENT SHOULD COME FROM ONDO.

You are referring to born parasites

KILLTHECOWS:
stop writing nonsense....
Azikiwe arranged 1999 constitution.?
With all the good things you wrote about the north,can you just take them and go your way..just take a good look at chad,mali,Niger ,this poor countries will even be better than northern Nigeria without the south and they know it..
Parasite they are and parasites they will remain.

1999 constitution is the updated version of all previous constitutions and extant laws.
The same Mali, Chad and Niger Republic that are in the state they're ur ppl still troop there to sell sex and traffic humans.
Parasites are people who depend on others to eat.
Stop living in delusion. All those in Nairaland making ethno-religious bias comments are ignorant of the vast nature of Nigeria and deeply stricken by poverty. Making statement out of extreme jealousy!

Coronabirus:


1999 constitution is the updated version of all previous constitutions and extant laws.
The same Mali, Chad and Niger Republic that are in the state they're ur ppl still troop there to sell sex and traffic humans.
Parasites are people who depend on others to eat.
Stop living in delusion. All those in Nairaland making ethno-religious bias comments are ignorant of the vast nature of Nigeria and deeply stricken by poverty. Making statement out of extreme jealousy

making statements out of extreme jealousy, u say? and who's depending on others to eat if not the core-northerners?

Baba, abeg park one side jare.

Coronabirus:


1999 constitution is the updated version of all previous constitutions and extant laws.
The same Mali, Chad and Niger Republic that are in the state they're ur ppl still troop there to sell sex and traffic humans.
Parasites are people who depend on others to eat.
Stop living in delusion. All those in Nairaland making ethno-religious bias comments are ignorant of the vast nature of Nigeria and deeply stricken by poverty. Making statement out of extreme jealousy!

my people selling sex to mali?
Lolzzzzz.... people that can't even feed themselves...
Your people are parasites,that is why you love Nigeria so dearly....
It benefits your people so much .
If nothing like nigerian,na wahala for you...

Coronabirus:


1999 constitution is the updated version of all previous constitutions and extant laws.
The same Mali, Chad and Niger Republic that are in the state they're ur ppl still troop there to sell sex and traffic humans.
Parasites are people who depend on others to eat.
Stop living in delusion. All those in Nairaland making ethno-religious bias comments are ignorant of the vast nature of Nigeria and deeply stricken by poverty. Making statement out of extreme jealousy!

the military rulers been mostly northerners edited the constitutions which gave birth to the 1999 constitution in their own favour...
1999 constitution is not the people's constitution hence the mass call for it's scrap.....

KILLTHECOWS:
the military rulers been mostly northerners edited the constitutions which gave birth to the 1999 constitution in their own favour...
1999 constitution is not the people's constitution hence the mass call for it's scrap.....

Please stop advertising your ignorance, try to receive information from authentic sources than dwelling on ethno-religious platforms for information.
The military did not write any constitution — apart from promulgating the enabling decrees.
On November 11, 1998, Abdulsalami inaugurated the Constitution Debate Co-ordinating Committee (CDCC) to “pilot the debate, co-ordinate and collate views and recommendations canvassed by individuals and groups and submit report not later than 31 December 1998”. It was not headed by a soldier but by Justice Niki Tobi, with Dr. Suleiman Kurmo as deputy chairman. There was no single military man on the committee. They went round the country to collect memoranda from the public through town hall meetings in Benin, Enugu, Jos, Port Harcourt, Kaduna, Kano, Ibadan, Lagos and Sokoto. They excluded military formations.

After all the frenetic debates — up and down, north and south, east and west — the Tobi committee submitted its report to the military government. Tobi said: “In the light of the memoranda and the oral presentation on the 1995 Draft Constitution, it is clear that Nigerians basically opt for the 1979 Constitution with relevant amendments. They want it, and they have copiously given their reasons for their choice in the different memoranda and oral presentations.
So they recommended to the Provisional Ruling Council the adoption of the 1979 Constitution with relevant amendments from the 1995 Draft Constitution.” Abdulsalami accepted the recommendation.
When the 1999 constitution was finally published, three of them sat down and placed it side by side with the 1979 constitution. They then did a clause-by-clause analysis. The trio were: Mr. Victor Ifijeh (the current MD of The Nation newspaper who was THISDAY editor then), Alhaji Yusuph Olaniyonu (SA to Senate President Bukola Saraki who was THISDAY politics editor at the time) and THISDAY features editor. They did a word-for-word reading and laughed themselves to stupor: this is pure plagiarism of the 1979 constitution!
There were only a few notable differences in the two documents, such as the 13% derivation for oil-producing states and the number of states in the federation. While the 1979 constitution spoke about 19 states, 1999 said 36 states, logically. They were only reflecting the realities on ground. FEDECO in the 1979 document changed to INEC in 1999 constitution therefore it can be concluded that the 1999 constitution is a replica of the 1979 constitution.
The biggest irony abt the contentious nature of our constitution is the vicious condemnation of the 1999 constitution by some prominent Nigerians who mostly took part in the previous constitution starting committees or got favour & protection by the system.
LET ME USE BISI AKANDE AS AN EXAMPLE
Recently, Chief Bisi Akande, former national chairman of the APC, recently summarised the discontent with the 1999 constitution thus: “The 1999 Constitution is Nigeria’s greatest misadventure since Lugard’s amalgamation of 1914.
However, with due respect I've for AKANDE I found him so hypocritical for making such statement that ridicule his past. Akande was a member of the 1977 Constituent Assembly that debated and produced the 1979 constitution — which, as you would find out, is 99% what we have as the 1999 constitution today! In 1977, Akande was elected to represent Ila and Odo-otin local governments in the Constituent Assembly. The same 1999 constitution which is a photocopy of the 1979 constitution. Factually and logically, Akande has described the document he helped produced as “a bad relic of military mentality”. This isn't the issue with only Akande but with all the sociocultural groups making noise here and there, mostly their people or themselves took part in producing previous constitutions which were used to produce 1999 constitution.
Military mentality? Again, let us look at that closely. The constitution drafting committee set up by Gen. Murtala Muhammed in 1975 was headed by Chief FRA Williams. He was not a major general, in my records. (Awo declined to serve on the committee because he wanted to run for president.) The report of the committee formed the basis for discussions at the 1977 Constituent Assembly. Notable CA members were Chief MKO Abiola and core Awoists such as Chief Bola Ige, Chief Abraham Adesanya and Chief Bisi Onabanjo. It was chaired by eminent jurist, Justice Udo Udoma. This is what Akande, himself an elected member, calls “military mentality”. Is this not hypocrisy criticising 1999 constitution without looking back to the sins of these people in the past, since they know most youths are not interested in history or they didn't read history are now trying to change the narration of the mayhem they put us in!
Under the cloned constitution, Akande was elected governor of Osun state in 1999. Under the same constitution that “promotes corruption”, Akande ruled Osun state for 4yrs. He lost his re-election bid in 2003 partly because he refused to be corrupt under he constitution he claimed is corrupt. He refused to pillage state resources for electoral gain and I'm very much sure he was guided by the same constitution. He did not buy a private jet or houses in Dubai and America. Yet he believes that the 1999 constitution “breeds and protects corrupt practices and criminal impunities in governance”. This is very sad!
In conclusion, I would like to emphasise one point: I have by no means suggested that the 1999 constitution is perfect. I am not that daft. My point is that there are too many statements being made by those against the constitution that are not based on facts. The 1999 constitution was NOT written by the military. I also hasten to say that nobody can write a perfect constitution. Even if Prof. Ben Nwabueze, a well-respected constitutional expert, writes a new constitution today, loopholes will surface in a matter of time. That is why laws are dynamic. As loopholes appear, you plug them. Meanwhile, is the 1999 constitution that horrible?
The same people that are amending God's commandments are expecting perfection from fellow human!

Coronabirus:
Please stop advertising your ignorance, try to receive information from authentic sources than dwelling on ethno-religious platforms for information.
The military did not write any constitution — apart from promulgating the enabling decrees.
On November 11, 1998, Abdulsalami inaugurated the Constitution Debate Co-ordinating Committee (CDCC) to “pilot the debate, co-ordinate and collate views and recommendations canvassed by individuals and groups and submit report not later than 31 December 1998”. It was not headed by a soldier but by Justice Niki Tobi, with Dr. Suleiman Kurmo as deputy chairman. There was no single military man on the committee. They went round the country to collect memoranda from the public through town hall meetings in Benin, Enugu, Jos, Port Harcourt, Kaduna, Kano, Ibadan, Lagos and Sokoto. They excluded military formations.

After all the frenetic debates — up and down, north and south, east and west — the Tobi committee submitted its report to the military government. Tobi said: “In the light of the memoranda and the oral presentation on the 1995 Draft Constitution, it is clear that Nigerians basically opt for the 1979 Constitution with relevant amendments. They want it, and they have copiously given their reasons for their choice in the different memoranda and oral presentations.
So they recommended to the Provisional Ruling Council the adoption of the 1979 Constitution with relevant amendments from the 1995 Draft Constitution.” Abdulsalami accepted the recommendation.
When the 1999 constitution was finally published, three of them sat down and placed it side by side with the 1979 constitution. They then did a clause-by-clause analysis. The trio were: Mr. Victor Ifijeh (the current MD of The Nation newspaper who was THISDAY editor then), Alhaji Yusuph Olaniyonu (SA to Senate President Bukola Saraki who was THISDAY politics editor at the time) and THISDAY features editor. They did a word-for-word reading and laughed themselves to stupor: this is pure plagiarism of the 1979 constitution!
There were only a few notable differences in the two documents, such as the 13% derivation for oil-producing states and the number of states in the federation. While the 1979 constitution spoke about 19 states, 1999 said 36 states, logically. They were only reflecting the realities on ground. FEDECO in the 1979 document changed to INEC in 1999 constitution therefore it can be concluded that the 1999 constitution is a replica of the 1979 constitution.
The biggest irony abt the contentious nature of our constitution is the vicious condemnation of the 1999 constitution by some prominent Nigerians who mostly took part in the previous constitution starting committees or got favour & protection by the system.
LET ME USE BISI AKANDE AS AN EXAMPLE
Recently, Chief Bisi Akande, former national chairman of the APC, recently summarised the discontent with the 1999 constitution thus: “The 1999 Constitution is Nigeria’s greatest misadventure since Lugard’s amalgamation of 1914.
However, with due respect I've for AKANDE I found him so hypocritical for making such statement that ridicule his past. Akande was a member of the 1977 Constituent Assembly that debated and produced the 1979 constitution — which, as you would find out, is 99% what we have as the 1999 constitution today! In 1977, Akande was elected to represent Ila and Odo-otin local governments in the Constituent Assembly. The same 1999 constitution which is a photocopy of the 1979 constitution. Factually and logically, Akande has described the document he helped produced as “a bad relic of military mentality”. This isn't the issue with only Akande but with all the sociocultural groups making noise here and there, mostly their people or themselves took part in producing previous constitutions which were used to produce 1999 constitution.
Military mentality? Again, let us look at that closely. The constitution drafting committee set up by Gen. Murtala Muhammed in 1975 was headed by Chief FRA Williams. He was not a major general, in my records. (Awo declined to serve on the committee because he wanted to run for president.) The report of the committee formed the basis for discussions at the 1977 Constituent Assembly. Notable CA members were Chief MKO Abiola and core Awoists such as Chief Bola Ige, Chief Abraham Adesanya and Chief Bisi Onabanjo. It was chaired by eminent jurist, Justice Udo Udoma. This is what Akande, himself an elected member, calls “military mentality”. Is this not hypocrisy criticising 1999 constitution without looking back to the sins of these people in the past, since they know most youths are not interested in history or they didn't read history are now trying to change the narration of the mayhem they put us in!
Under the cloned constitution, Akande was elected governor of Osun state in 1999. Under the same constitution that “promotes corruption”, Akande ruled Osun state for 4yrs. He lost his re-election bid in 2003 partly because he refused to be corrupt under he constitution he claimed is corrupt. He refused to pillage state resources for electoral gain and I'm very much sure he was guided by the same constitution. He did not buy a private jet or houses in Dubai and America. Yet he believes that the 1999 constitution “breeds and protects corrupt practices and criminal impunities in governance”. This is very sad!
In conclusion, I would like to emphasise one point: I have by no means suggested that the 1999 constitution is perfect. I am not that daft. My point is that there are too many statements being made by those against the constitution that are not based on facts. The 1999 constitution was NOT written by the military. I also hasten to say that nobody can write a perfect constitution. Even if Prof. Ben Nwabueze, a well-respected constitutional expert, writes a new constitution today, loopholes will surface in a matter of time. That is why laws are dynamic. As loopholes appear, you plug them. Meanwhile, is the 1999 constitution that horrible?
The same people that are amending God's commandments are expecting perfection from fellow human!

If you were to discuss among intelligent individuals about the reasonableness or otherwise of a military constitution in a democracy, you'd provide them with this copy and paste hogwash to defend the criminality and fraud of the 1999 constitution?
It's very difficult defending a fraud.

Coronabirus:
Please stop advertising your ignorance, try to receive information from authentic sources than dwelling on ethno-religious platforms for information.
The military did not write any constitution — apart from promulgating the enabling decrees.
On November 11, 1998, Abdulsalami inaugurated the Constitution Debate Co-ordinating Committee (CDCC) to “pilot the debate, co-ordinate and collate views and recommendations canvassed by individuals and groups and submit report not later than 31 December 1998”. It was not headed by a soldier but by Justice Niki Tobi, with Dr. Suleiman Kurmo as deputy chairman. There was no single military man on the committee. They went round the country to collect memoranda from the public through town hall meetings in Benin, Enugu, Jos, Port Harcourt, Kaduna, Kano, Ibadan, Lagos and Sokoto. They excluded military formations.

After all the frenetic debates — up and down, north and south, east and west — the Tobi committee submitted its report to the military government. Tobi said: “In the light of the memoranda and the oral presentation on the 1995 Draft Constitution, it is clear that Nigerians basically opt for the 1979 Constitution with relevant amendments. They want it, and they have copiously given their reasons for their choice in the different memoranda and oral presentations.
So they recommended to the Provisional Ruling Council the adoption of the 1979 Constitution with relevant amendments from the 1995 Draft Constitution.” Abdulsalami accepted the recommendation.
When the 1999 constitution was finally published, three of them sat down and placed it side by side with the 1979 constitution. They then did a clause-by-clause analysis. The trio were: Mr. Victor Ifijeh (the current MD of The Nation newspaper who was THISDAY editor then), Alhaji Yusuph Olaniyonu (SA to Senate President Bukola Saraki who was THISDAY politics editor at the time) and THISDAY features editor. They did a word-for-word reading and laughed themselves to stupor: this is pure plagiarism of the 1979 constitution!
There were only a few notable differences in the two documents, such as the 13% derivation for oil-producing states and the number of states in the federation. While the 1979 constitution spoke about 19 states, 1999 said 36 states, logically. They were only reflecting the realities on ground. FEDECO in the 1979 document changed to INEC in 1999 constitution therefore it can be concluded that the 1999 constitution is a replica of the 1979 constitution.
The biggest irony abt the contentious nature of our constitution is the vicious condemnation of the 1999 constitution by some prominent Nigerians who mostly took part in the previous constitution starting committees or got favour & protection by the system.
LET ME USE BISI AKANDE AS AN EXAMPLE
Recently, Chief Bisi Akande, former national chairman of the APC, recently summarised the discontent with the 1999 constitution thus: “The 1999 Constitution is Nigeria’s greatest misadventure since Lugard’s amalgamation of 1914.
However, with due respect I've for AKANDE I found him so hypocritical for making such statement that ridicule his past. Akande was a member of the 1977 Constituent Assembly that debated and produced the 1979 constitution — which, as you would find out, is 99% what we have as the 1999 constitution today! In 1977, Akande was elected to represent Ila and Odo-otin local governments in the Constituent Assembly. The same 1999 constitution which is a photocopy of the 1979 constitution. Factually and logically, Akande has described the document he helped produced as “a bad relic of military mentality”. This isn't the issue with only Akande but with all the sociocultural groups making noise here and there, mostly their people or themselves took part in producing previous constitutions which were used to produce 1999 constitution.
Military mentality? Again, let us look at that closely. The constitution drafting committee set up by Gen. Murtala Muhammed in 1975 was headed by Chief FRA Williams. He was not a major general, in my records. (Awo declined to serve on the committee because he wanted to run for president.) The report of the committee formed the basis for discussions at the 1977 Constituent Assembly. Notable CA members were Chief MKO Abiola and core Awoists such as Chief Bola Ige, Chief Abraham Adesanya and Chief Bisi Onabanjo. It was chaired by eminent jurist, Justice Udo Udoma. This is what Akande, himself an elected member, calls “military mentality”. Is this not hypocrisy criticising 1999 constitution without looking back to the sins of these people in the past, since they know most youths are not interested in history or they didn't read history are now trying to change the narration of the mayhem they put us in!
Under the cloned constitution, Akande was elected governor of Osun state in 1999. Under the same constitution that “promotes corruption”, Akande ruled Osun state for 4yrs. He lost his re-election bid in 2003 partly because he refused to be corrupt under he constitution he claimed is corrupt. He refused to pillage state resources for electoral gain and I'm very much sure he was guided by the same constitution. He did not buy a private jet or houses in Dubai and America. Yet he believes that the 1999 constitution “breeds and protects corrupt practices and criminal impunities in governance”. This is very sad!
In conclusion, I would like to emphasise one point: I have by no means suggested that the 1999 constitution is perfect. I am not that daft. My point is that there are too many statements being made by those against the constitution that are not based on facts. The 1999 constitution was NOT written by the military. I also hasten to say that nobody can write a perfect constitution. Even if Prof. Ben Nwabueze, a well-respected constitutional expert, writes a new constitution today, loopholes will surface in a matter of time. That is why laws are dynamic. As loopholes appear, you plug them. Meanwhile, is the 1999 constitution that horrible?
The same people that are amending God's commandments are expecting perfection from fellow human!

you need to take a good look at the 1999 constitution and others again but this time read and compare them slowly.

KILLTHECOWS:
you need to take a good look at the 1999 constitution and others again but this time read and compare them slowly.

I dnt need to do that again. 1999 constitution is a replica of 1979 constitution and the fact is military has never written constitution, they always set panel of civilian technocrats to lead the job by going round the nation, holding conferences, public hearings and congresses. However, because they know we're so used to fake news we won't be able to trace their past sins and they're now accusing military for the mayhem they put us in.