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Didn't certain fools from southern Nigeria inform us that people from northern Nigeria are not corrupted?

logon599:
Why won't children get involved. They've observed the adults do it over time and now they've assumed it as normal. So how will he be punished now? Take away his phone?

The silliness points to the fact Africans have inferiority complex. It is mindboggling that most Africans arrogate the word "Black" to represent them. The idiotic phrase "Black and White" comes out of slavery. Why would Africans who had never been involved in slavery arrogate the black to themselves and then shout racism. There is no racism in the world because the earth has one race and it is human. If a dumbass fool uses a choice word to describe you, I suggest you do the same to the fool and stop these silly shouts of racism which seem to embolden idiotic Europeans and others. Nobody can belittle you unless you allow them.

Openbusiness3:
This was the time Nigeria Police don't go about carrying gun. They carried baton that was popularly called "Kondo Olopa". In fact, the Yoruba derivative word "OLOPA" for Police actually stemmed from the fact that Police was known to carry batons, not guns. "Olo+opa" meaning "the holder of stick or staff, which actually was their way of saying Baton. Indomie generation won't know this . Check my signature to buy intelligent dispenser. Best quality North America product with warranty

They also carried guns especially MK3 and MK4 when on special duties. .

nokatakata:
yen yen yen...you wanted war and you got it. It is not too late to start another one. maybe you will get your revenge and be able to kill yorubas as you always wish. I really don't know what you mean by a genocidal opponent. Do you understand what war is? Did biafra.ud airheads like your forefathers not kill other tribes? you lost and changed it from war to genocide. Now you are yapping trash about genocidal opponent...akpu don block your brain. you think war is inter house sport or tele match?

Have you ever fought in one even in your dreams? Not all wars are fought with the zeal of genocide. There were Zoogerian airheads like your forefathers who were confused too.

overall90:
Victor Banjo didn't fight for Biafra.
he was imprisoned in Enugu for his involvement in the January coup.
Ojukwu released him and put him in command to liberate the west and Lagos and clear it of the activities of northern troops.
he had almost succeeded before the expedition was sabotaged by the British(who wanted the crisis to continue for their own selfish interest) and some yoruba elements.
when I read here on how yorubas fought Biafrans at Ore,I just laugh because one can see from the post that that is far from the truth.

Sometimes one has to let the Yari.ba peeps swim in their bags of lies. The same Yoruba which could not afford a single officer to standby Ogundipe to claim what was rightfully his suddenly became braves and warmongers.

IJOBA2:
JOY NUNU SEF


YOU SLAPPED HIM WHEN HE WANTED TO CARESS THE FLAT TIRE.

AFTER 4 NA ORIGINAL TRAMADOL EXTRA O

Nigerians are very funny indeed.

SocialJustice:
Akpabio should have used more diplomatic means to touch her breast. The woman is fine and her fucke go sweet.

Do you mean the flat tire as suggested by a previous poster?

seunmsg:
Stop lying. The result of the election is available online and in several books and government archives. AG won majority of seats without the defection. Even those that defected to AG were members elected as independent candidates, Ibadan People’s party, Ondo improvement league and Otu Edo. No single NCNC member defected to AG.

Adegoke Adelabu was a member of NCNC, why should we believe his personal account over official records? If NCNC won the election, bring out the evidence and let’s see it. If you can’t provide the records it is better you stop deceiving young Igbos with false history. Poisoning the younger generation with lies that your parents poisoned you with will not help them. It’s time to stop the lies once and for all.

Lies from Yari.ba land as usual. Adegoke Adelabu was a member of IPP, whose party was in alliance with NCNC. It is unfortunate many peeps do not even remotely understand alliance and coalition, the political terms of yesteryears.

seunmsg:
Stop lying. The result of the election is available online and in several books and government archives. AG won majority of seats without the defection. Even those that defected to AG were members elected as independent candidates, Ibadan People’s party, Ondo improvement league and Otu Edo. No single NCNC member defected to AG.

Adegoke Adelabu was a member of NCNC, why should we believe his personal account over official records? If NCNC won the election, bring out the evidence and let’s see it. If you can’t provide the records it is better you stop deceiving young Igbos with false history. Poisoning the younger generation with lies that your parents poisoned you with will not help them. It’s time to stop the lies once and for all.

"On the 1st of December, 1951, Adegoke Adelabu, who had described himself as-”A strong man and the political voice of the west”, suffered a political master stroke. Five of the elected members- 1. Chief A.M.A Akinloye. 2. Chief D.T Akinbiyi. 3. Chief S. Owoola Lanlehin. 4. Chief Moyosore Aboderin 5. Chief S.A Akinyemi, all of the Ibadan People’s Party- NCNC Alliance, attended an Action Group rally. Adegoke commented acidly- “the long awaited proof of treachery has arrived”

Adegoke resented this, by opening up a salvo in the Southern Nigeria Defender Newspaper, with a serialized, devastating and documented attack, titled-"A Stab On The Back"

LegendHero:
You are probably infested with the spirit of lies like Ojuku.

Below is there election result and you can clearly see Awolowo AG won more seats than Azikwe NCNC.

The Ind are the independent candidates who aligned with both AG and NCNC. Also, you can clearly see that Awo’s AG had more independent candidates on their side than NCNC.

https://www.nairaland.com/attachments/11916301_9af6ce9534174aeda4674f1e831fa792_jpeg_jpeg905e347e5aec905557a15ead2e7daf20

CC:Seunmsg

Mr. Actions, what do you take me to represent? NCNC did not field any candidate for Ibadan. IPP was in alliance with NCNC. I had been a fool to accept cooked figures from western region of Nigeria. Oluwole does not exist for nothing. The poster released the grievances expressed by the man who was marked to lead the government of western region of Nigeria yet you post craps as facts. Do you want to read the headlines carried by newspapers based in western region of Nigeria stating the Fajuiyi offered to die with Ironsi?

sesan85:
Yorubas staged slave revolts in Cuba and Brazil, ignoramus. They ended your Biafla too. Cry more!

The lily-livered Yari.ba who could not muster soldiers from Oduduwa to support Ogundipe who was relegated to background by a junior officer or even raise an eyebrow when the son of the soil was murdered cold-bloodedly in Ibadan the capital of Oduduwa. Afonja was to Ilorin what Fajuiyi was to Ibadan. Two strikes, you are shamefully out. Braves are not born when masses are willing to fight.

nokatakata:
I'm happy you are now accepting that you fought a war and it was not genocide like your forefathers and fathers claim just to cover up for their foolis.hness and failure.
You do not have shingbain and all you air heads do is brag on the internet. Potopoto biafra.ud...e pain am

Are you a basement learner? Ndigbo and Biafrans fought a war against a genocidal opponents from Nigeria. Most humans will always be the first to call others names when, in fact, the callers are the main subject of such indiscretion. You have loudly called someone airhead yet cannot discern the difference between a war and genocidal tendencies.

selemempe:
I won't mention any tribe but a certain tribe in Nigeria paused all economic, political, social and academic activities for 3 years.
During those 3 years, they witnessed massive bombing and killings in their region still not witnessed and never witnessed anywhere in Africa.
But this tribe is still doing great. Topping JAMB and WAEC excellence lists. Still having powerful companies and top CEOs.
You may think it's nothing until you witness what they witnessed

Bros I heard you clearly. Ordinary one week of Wuhan virus lockdown in Nigeria, some folks headed to suicidal house.

Osaze007:
- He lost Western house of assembly elections to Zik
- He introduced Tribalism to Nigeria
- He agreed to Ojukwu to have yorubas lead the war
- Ojukwu released Awolowo
- He committed Suicide


Those are the list of iPob lies championed against the great sage

Please go read the write up about Adegoke Adelabu. It was not a personal contest, Action Group lost to NCNC. Stop reading narratives from western Nigeria regional gazettes .

https://www.nairaland.com/5970842/adegoke-adelabu-penkelemesi-dazzling-politician#91399860

cocolacec:
Let’s break Nigeria into six regions – Balarabe Musa

Former Kaduna State governor, Balarabe Musa has made case for restructuring of the country and return to regional government, as a panacea for the multifarious problems confronting Nigeria.

In this interview with VINCENT KALU, the elder statesman, belching fire, called on Nigerians to rise up for a revolution that will get rid of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) and the main opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) for taking the nation to the abyss of underdevelopment.

What is your view on the current state of the nation?

It is very negative, very dangerous and it could lead to anything tomorrow.

How do you think the problem of insecurity especially in the North can be addressed?

The insecurity is throughout the country, but is it more alarming in the North; unfortunately, the president of the country is from the North. The state of insecurity is as a result of other aspects of the negative state of the nation.

For instance, the level of poverty, unemployment, the level of corruption, stealing and waste of resources, which apply to the whole country, particularly in the North. The president and his party are clearly incompetent, and the governors throughout the country, except very few of them are either ignorant or grossly irresponsible. Both the APC, the PDP, and their governors are insisting on continuing in power, they should be stopped because the continuation of the two parties will lead to a worse situation.

Against the insecurity in the North, Kano governor, Dr. Abdullahi Ganduje called on the federal government to halt the movement of herdsmen from other countries into Nigeria, what is your position on this?

Herdsmen are not the source of the problem we have in the country. The source of the problem is the incompetence of the federal government and irrelevance of the state governors. How can herdsmen or those bringing them into Nigeria come freely without the indifference of the federal government and the state government, particularly, the federal government?

You said the APC and PDP should not be allowed to continue, how can this be made possible?

Either another party, which is patriotic and credible and concerned with the future of Nigeria and Nigerians should come to power, or a coalition of parties that are capable and united and credible. The thing is either a capable political party or a coalition of a number of credible parties.

When it happens, you find out that politicians from APC and PDP will move into the new party you are talking about and possibly hijack it

We will make sure that it doesn’t happen because we know the danger of that. The leaders of the parties must be responsible. In 2002, many political parties came together and formed the Conference of Nigerian Political Parties (CNPP), when we realised that President Obasanjo and his party, PDP were planning one party system, but because of their problem with the North, they conceded and started thinking of a two party system, whereby, one controls the government, while the other, a cooperating opposition.

We saw their plan and when INEC called for a consultative meeting for all the political parties, the electoral body refused to listen to the submission of all the other political parties, and we then concluded that INEC and the federal government were planning for one party system, but if necessary because of the character of Nigeria nationalism, a two party system was necessary, but we fought against it by forming the CNPP under the support of one of the party leaders, the late Gani Fawehinmi. He spearheaded the move for a multi party system in this country, instead of the one party system or two party system, and we succeeded through the CNPP.

However, when money politics took a greater measure, undermining the state of the nation, the political parties that were united, fought for multi party system began to disorganise themselves; instead of fighting for freedom, they fought for money, and CNPP was weakened, and as a result, INEC and government formed what was called, Inter Party Advisory Council (IPAC), which didn’t succeed because it failed to do what they wanted it to do, which was to undermine political parties.

The solution is to go back and re-strengthen the CNPP under the leadership of one of the most credible party chairmen; if we get that, the political parties under credible leadership will unit and protect the interest of the country and bring about a better state of the nation; better still, bring about social reconstruction of Nigeria, starting with the role of the state in the economy to ensure peace, equality, justice to the majority of the human person, and progress, as well as even development of the country.

The CNPP has not died, but it has been weakened. I’m still its national chairman. It has been weakened by money power. It still exists, we have credible party leaders among them, for instance, there is Adeniran, and there is Sasado and others, who are dependable and can replace Gani Fawehinmi, and bring about the relevance of CNPP in other to bring about a better state of the nation.

If for instance, Adeniran, who has political experience, and Sasado, who also has political experience, can come together, study the objective of the CNPP, and revive it, we will see a way forward to get rid of the nonsense of APC and PDP peacefully. We are talking of peaceful revolution, we are not talking of revolution by any means, we hope it will not resort to that, but the moment the revolution is by peaceful means; a revolution in which the electorate have the power to decide the fate of a political party and the fate of a candidate in an election.

You can ensure peaceful revolution, but if you can make this thing possible or either the alterative becomes necessarily inevitable because Nigeria has to move forward; Nigeria has to be equal with any other nation in the world. America, China, Russia, Germany and so on, fought and became what they are today; they just didn’t sit down there, deceiving themselves and hoping for the best.

Considering our diversity, the elites divide the people along ethnic and religious lines, don’t you think it will be difficult for the people to come together and push for revolution, as you recommended?

The same people were they not able to get rid of feudalism, the same people were they not able to get rid of colonialism, and the same people were they not able to get rid of military dictatorship? The same people who have done these, even though it is not enough, but still, it is something; it is two steps forward, one step backward.

Nigeria, in spite of its diversity has achieved two steps forward, one step backward by getting rid of feudalism, colonialism, military dictatorship, and now, even civilian dictatorship. Look at APC and PDP. Let Nigerians continue, but qualitatively, and they will get rid of these parties and bring about the desirable state of the nation, peace and progress and make the country equal with any nation in the world.

What type of leadership do you expect to emerge after Buhari?

A worse leadership has been the trend, and that trend will continue unless something decisively is done by the Nigerian people, we will not see a better situation when Buhari goes in 2023; we will see a situation worse than during Buhari.

After all Buhari himself became the president because he constituted the least risk, we knew; we knew him. When he came into power and up till now he is not behaving as we had thought him to be a better risk. We should continue taking the risk until we do what other countries do gradually to get rid of our problems and establish a nation, which everybody can be proud of.

Based on what you have said, people are talking about rotation, zoning, what is your stand on this , and which zone do you think should produce the next president of Nigeria?

Let us think of what will unite Nigerians; what will make Nigerians proud of themselves and of their country. In practical terms, we have seen experiences of governance in this country over a long period of time. The request for restructuring is valid, but those people who are supporting it should then make it clear to Nigerians what restructuring constitutes; is it ethnic nationalities problems because some of the people are thinking that it is about creation of more states. As far as we are concerned, our restructuring idea is that, we have now seen the problem of weakening our regional government.

When we had regional government, we had more responsible leadership and we had more progress. Let us go back to the regional arrangement, where we had Eastern Region, Northern Region, Western Region and later, Mid Western Region, and we saw more sense of responsibility in the leadership and we also saw coordinated progress, so, let us go back to that arrangement.

Let us restructure the country and go back to the regional arrangement, and so, should abolish the states and go back to regions; instead of the 36 states, we should have six or seven regions. Let each regional government decide how many states and local governments it wants to have and finance. The federating units should be the regions, and resources should be allocated to the regions, and each region can create as many states and local governments it wants based on allocations it has and resources available to it.

We will make the centre not as strong as it is, and make the regions and local governments stronger, but the federal government will also be strong enough to coordinate and protect the interest of Nigerians who don’t want to identify themselves with regions, but Nigeria. We can do that only if we have a relevant central government that is not too strong, but certainly not too weak to be able to coordinate and bring about national unity.


https://www.sunnewsonline.com/lets-break-nigeria-into-six-regions-balarabe-musa/

This is arrant nonsense. The first sentence of any silly restructure of Nigeria must start with the use of commonwealth expanded on Lagos and Abuja to be expanded on the same magititude in the defunct eastern and mid-western regions. If this simple task cannot be achieved, I suggest total and unconditional disintegration of Nigeria. I do not want whatever resources from my area to be used to maintain Lagos and Abuja or resources from other domains to service my area. I stand committed to the actualization of Republic of Igbo land.

SmartPolician:
Dedetwo, he is veryyyyyyyy right

Government must be total with its development stride, ensuring that no part of the state is left to decay.

Allocation assigned to local government areas should be used to better the lots of the locals. I hope they return to the issue of local government autonomy again.

When local communities receive well-deserved government attention, we will stem the rural-to-urban migration tide. In the end, we won't have overcrowded cities.

As regards population explosion, skewed development has made Lagos a mess today, and Imo State government must not replicate that in the state

Bros I have already told the dude that there exist some kind of critical path method or even template governments employ when they embark on infrastructural development. Sometime, potential for return of capital fund is considered. The issue with dude remains lack of factual facts. He claimed Evens Enwerem established IMSU. However IMSU was established in 1981 while Even Enwerem became governor in 1992 and stayed only six months before he was booted out. Now if the dude cannot get the factual facts correctly one wonders where he pulls his facts.

LegendAnselm:
Stop this nonsense. We dnt need the president now. As an igbo man from nnewi I prefer awusa as a president Instead of afonja or igbo. reasons it gives us ways to our destination. land of d risen sun. all hail republic of biafra, all hail ojukwu all hail NNAMDI KANU. all hail biafrans again and again.

LegendHero: when will this deceitfulness stop?

osinbanjoisaliar:
Chieftains of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) from the South-East on Saturday met in Owerri, Imo State capital, where they debunked claims of marginalisation of Igbo people in Nigeria.

The key leaders of the APC from the region, also at the meeting claimed that the Igbo people were currently more united than ever.

Many people from that part of Nigeria have often cried out that the region is marginalised in the country.

Some have even attributed the agitation for Biafra by some groups in the South-East as resulting from the marginalisation the people continue to allegedly suffer in Nigeria.

However, the APC chieftains maintained that there was nothing like the marginalisation of the Igbo people, adding the claim remained a mere speculation and the figment of the imagination of those who are not well informed.

The delegation was led by a former President of the Senate, Chief Ken Nnamani with the Minister of Science and Technology Dr Ogbonnaya Onu, Minister of Labour and Productivity Dr Chris Ngige, Minister of Foreign Affairs Mr Geoffrey Onyema, Minister of State, Mines and Steel Development, Dr Uche Ogah, Minister of State, Education, Dr Emeka Nwajiuba, and Sir Frank Ibezim all in attendance.

After the meeting held behind closed doors, Nnamani, who is currently representing the South-East in the National Caretaker Committee of the APC , told newsmen that he led the delegation to pay a solidarity visit to the governor of Imo State, Senator Hope Uzodinma.

According to him, the delegation did not only come to wish Uzodinma, who is the only APC governor in the South-East well, but to also let him know they were impressed with what they have seen on the ground.

He said they believe “strongly that there is a lot of hope in the person Hope as the Governor of Imo State.’

Speaking, Uzodinma told newsmen that the APC government in Imo State remained the gateway to integrating Igbos into the national political and socio-economic grid as well as the policy framework of the Federal Republic of Nigeria.

On whether the region has any chance of occupying the office of the Nigerian President in 2023, Uzodinma said that what should bother the Igbo is ‘Nigerian President of Igbo extraction’ and not Igbo President of Nigeria.

“The South-East is part of Nigeria, South-East leaders exhibit all qualities and capabilities for good governance and as such believe that the APC as the ruling party in Nigeria will make the right decision at the appropriate time,” he said.

Ngige, in his address, said South-East ministers at the Federal Executive Council (FEC) had been given the region effective representation, ‘getting what is the due share for the South-East.’

He listed projects in the region both completed and ongoing as well as other benefits the South-East has been enjoying under the APC-led federal government to include: the credit empowerment Scheme, the N-power project, Home School Feeding programme, East Coast Rail project running from Lagos-Benin-Onitsha-Nnewi to Owerri.


https://www.ripplesnigeria.com/nnamani-onu-ngige-other-ndigbo-apc-chieftains-say-south-east-not-marginalised-in-nigeria/

Above post is a delusional rant from silly agent.

kikake:
Chief Evan Enwerem was Governor of Imo state for 20 months between 1991 to 1993.

Chief Evan Enwerem established IMSU in Owerri temporarily, he saw FUTO, AICE and Imopoly in Owerri then.

Since then, selfish or lily livered politicians from Orlu zone have not been able to remove IMSU from Owerri. Ohakim who called IMSU a pigsty could have removed IMSU from Owerri if he had 2nd term.

The level of intellect you display on this forum does not qualify you to engage in this type of discussion.

Is this Ogun State with IGR greater than entire northern states of Nigeria?

If Nigeria is not basket of fools, why would this jackass who was in the team of PDP politician that started the decay of Abia State in 2003? As a senator, she became chairlady of Senate Committee on Banking. She jumped party to avoid probe by APC led government.

Yampotatocarrot:
I don't know about Abia, but if you follow the logic of Anambra, you'll understand the fixation.

How many things are located in the state capital? Go through all the N-local governments and see development there

Do you know how many factories/Industries are located in Nnewi alone? What of the fact that the government made that possible by passing gas line through the area?

The whole idea is that there should be something in those "rural" areas to attract investors, be it roads, electricity, population, just something.

Mainly by the sons and daughters of Nnewi. People who usually fight over government handouts are losers.

Aflix:
Same Kiki wey post full Instagram say na she build the house by her self based on say she be "hardworking woman" Shay Nigerians wey De struggle to survive lazy ni

Bro leave these falsehood peddlers to their silly world. The Kiki of a woman had posted her hardworking skillset on her instagram while the building was under construction.

Openbusiness3:
Nawa for some Nigerians and comprehension. @glamdafrica is the empire she struggled to build, not the building. If the building was her own, will she confidently mention the complete full name of her Landlord? Some people just like being mischievous for nothing. Abeg abeg, make i carry this nonsense dirty news comot from my front this early Saturday morning [img]https://media1./images/bf9875a752b0cd55f739e463c8394d83/tenor.gif?itemid=8538444[/img]

She has posted pictures showing her workaholic state of mind when the building was under construction. I guess her so-called landlord owns the plot of land while kiki Osinbajo owns the structure because she stated how she worked day and night to erect the structure. The blunt lies cannot make her the hardest worker on earth when she has nothing to show for it before her father became the VP of the shithole called Nigeria.

helinues:
Are you people internally displaced from your region hence the mass flocking to Lagos?

When certain loudmouthed goons in Nigeria shout restructure! restructure!!, I have always stated that Lagos and Abuja must be recreated in the defunct eastern and mid-western regions respectively as the initial step of silly restructure. If Nigerians cannot beckon to this reality, I say total disintegration of the Nigeria is the sure bet.

The southwestern region joined the northern region in a war against eastern region with hope that government shall provide everything. Most people from southwestern Nigeria have been acculturated as political panhandlers.

Sammy07:
Well, Onisha throne is Benin throne

https://www.nairaland.com/attachments/11905116_11595434screenshot20200524133505jpeg871f860ac7bf6d4b695b15488d3cb6e9_jpeg4ac10c5f7d265875e14ed2bd019da975

Please stop making fool out of yourself by posting junks. The clowns you claimed they founded Onicha do not even know the connotation of the word, Onicha.

EzeCanada:
The Edo's migrated from a place known as Igodo within the the Ancient Eri Kingdom - Also known as the The Iduu Eri Kingdom. The Iduu Ezeora dynasty is the the oldest civilization in Africa with the seat of power located at Enugwu Aguleri.

Learn more from the links below:

https://www.erikingdom.com/

https://books.google.ca/books?id=DDDZAwAAQBAJ&pg=PA50&lpg=PA50&dq=iduu&source=bl&ots=ccuNXite4B&sig=ACfU3U1eODKVZoCsQ9BEreuKA_olq90N4g&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwiK_KrxwMTqAhVNnOAKHVNfA40Q6AEwDHoECAgQAQ#v=onepage&q=iduu&f=false

Edo is the corruption of the word iduu. Till date, the edo royal house use the term iduu in their nomenclature ( example are the edo camps in Lagos such as Idu-mota, Idu-magbo e.t.c).
The Edo royal house still visits Igodo a place in Enugwu aguleri for traditional rites till date

You have a solid historic pointer in the above post.

PeachtreeReside:
*THE NORTH AND RESTRUCTURING*

This is The most interesting PIECE I have read on The Nigerian Social Media on Restructuring. It is Copied from "IKOYI CLUB BUDDIES FORUM" Posted by Deji Ibeh, a Lawyer.
I commend The author.

Tunde Oduwole,I-QS.
08.07.2020.

New Telegraph 

*Restructuring: The North, The South And Nigeria’s Future.*

Posted on
July 7, 2020 AuthorCLEM AGUIYI Comment(0)

CLEM AGUIYI July 7, 2020.

Give it to the North, they get what they want at every turn while the South do the talking. Most radical ideas that had shaped Nigeria’s political landscape often originated from the South only to be perfected to advantage by the North.

For instance, while the South championed the struggle for independence, the North acted like she wasn’t ready and would rather remain under British domination. But from when the British lowered the Union Jack, it was the North that had dominated the South and still do.

Another is the idea of military coup. It was actually Southern officers that executed Nigeria’s first military coup before the North perfected the art of coup plotting and used it to entrench Northern domination.

Almost all successful coups in Nigeria were hatched and executed by Northern officers from 1966 to date. Again, Nigeria started well on federalism until some group of Southerners introduce unitary government.

The North shouted ‘Araba’ the Hausa translation for ‘separation’ and insisted on true federalism. But as soon as it seized power in the counter coup of 1966, it jettisoned true federalism and perfected unitarianism to her advantage.

Today, it is the South who destroyed federalism that is shouting true federalism. Take again the question of constitutional democracy. This is a concept alien to both Islam and the oligarchy.

While the South talks plenty of democracy, the North which only reluctantly embraced democracy perfected the act of shaping democracy to its own advantage. Because the North understands that democracy is a game of numbers they made sure they have the numbers and a population they can easily manipulate and control.

They control their population with illiteracy and religion and make no apology for it. One can go on and on to list how the North beat the South at all times in its game.

Whether as a friend or a foe you must understand your opponent so as to engage properly. The inability of the South to read the North is one of her biggest albatrosses. Fast track to the current issue of restructuring, another idea currently advanced by the South as a remedy to save Nigeria from disintegration.

The Southern proponents of restructuring believe that Nigeria is not functioning properly because the centre is saddled with too many responsibilities and powers. Restructuring means devolving more powers to the states.

Despite the clarity of this concept, somehow the North pretends it does not understand what restructuring is all about. To get the South busy with talking, they pretend that restructuring will put her at a disadvantage or to say the least that it is an agenda to dismember Nigeria. For these reasons, many Southerners have wrongly convinced themselves that the North will never give in to restructuring whereas the North in actual fact is getting ready for restructuring and once again intends to perfect it to their advantage.

The import of this article is to warn the South to get ready and prepare for restructuring. The British who merged the North and South together has not abandoned the reason for the merger.

They remain very sympathetic to the North hence western leaders like Gordon Brown, Tony Blair and John Kerry had at various times tutored the Northern leaders on how to reorganize the region for a post oil economy.

Between 2015 and 2016, the US Institute for Peace had held series of strategy sessions strictly for Northern leaders on how best to prepare and re-energize the region for a post oil economy.

The sessions agreed that restructuring is inevitable without which even the North will not survive.

The sessions harped on what the vulnerabilities of the northern region would be when restructuring occurs and more importantly how to ensure that such vulnerabilities are dealt with well before restructuring. One major vulnerability is the fact that the North is landlocked hence they were advised that the region would need alternative international trade access routes that do not depend on the South.

This explains why President Buhari commenced building the ongoing high-speed railway lines designed to connect with the Niger Republic’s supply and logistics systems.

They were also advised that they needed to be independent of the South for petroleum products hence they went ahead with the project of building a completely new modern refinery in Daura, Katsina State.

The Daura refinery is purposely built to refine crude oil coming in from Niger Republic. The choice of Daura as a location is to reduce the cost of pipelines, as piping to the Kaduna refinery would have been very expensive. Daura shares a common border with Niger Republic.

Another major vulnerability is the fact that a significant proportion of Nigeria’s power generation and infrastructure is located in the South. It was suggested that the North would need to rebalance power generation, if it was to industrialize.

It is therefore not surprising that contracts have been awarded to pipe gas from the South to pass through Ajaokuta to Abuja, Kaduna, and Kano (AKK) where three thermal stations will be built in each of the three cities with capacity to generate 4,500MW of electricity.

While at the face value this project may appear good for Nigeria which can now export excess electricity to other African countries, the main objective however is to make the North electricity sufficient, and under restructuring will make the South to pay charges for passing power from  any of the thermal stations.

The North is also investing heavily in agriculture with a view to be in a position to not just feed her population but to export food to the South and other African countries. Only the South can solve its problem with regards to food. A lot can be learnt from Israel if it must readdress the food imbalance.

To boost agriculture, President Buhari did what no other government in Nigeria has been able to do.

He closed the land borders, and presented farmers with a great windfall. Massive incentives were provided to motivate Northern farmers. Northern farmers, who work through cooperatives, were provided with machinery and low interest loans through the CBN and the Bank of Agriculture to help stabilize the level of growth in agriculture.

I have taken time to reel out these few examples to debunk the laughable notion held by the South that the North will not give in to structuring. That is far from the truth. The North understands restructuring perfectly well and their vulnerabilities in case of restructuring.

The North is light years ahead of the South in their proactive preparations. I support restructuring for the singular reason that it will make Nigeria better than its current form. It will bring government closer to the people, enhance development and ensure efficient and effective governance.

Rather than being emotional and wasting valuable time on empty rhetoric, the best legacy Southern leaders can leave behind is to put on their thinking caps and get to work. They must use the opportunity of the current time to map out strategies that will rave and drive the economic and social development of the South post oil revenue.

The youth who are the future of tomorrow must understand that the future they symbolize and represent is now.

The only practical way they can be part of that future is to hold her elected political leaders accountable by making every single one of them and their families uncomfortable until the right things are done.

https://www.newtelegraphng.com.

The north are not great political chess players as the author post would want us to believe. However the north have immensely benefited from the political naiveté of the south and British's skewed plan for Nigeria. Nothing turned the political landscape of the shithole called Nigeria more than the Nigeria\Biafra war. The south showed the silly side of itself during era. I have no business in the idiotic restructure crap being floated by certain goons in Nigeria. Anything short of total disintegration of Nigeria is a half bread scenario.

BeLookingIDIOT:
You're trying so hard to sound smart right
Have you seen the debt profile of countries like the US ...I guess the SE is better than them.

Economic 101, bro. Are you intellectually in order? The issue is IGR of the state in Nigeria not the country such as USA. You can bring in the states in USA. By the way, what does Ogun state produce from farm land to grocery? If you ever know your stuff, which country does USA borrow its money? A fool can easily list two countries where Nigeria borrow fund.

kurupt1:
The emasculation of the African man has reached a new level.Watch out how men will suffer for this hastily crafted bill

The fools in Africa and Nigeria in particular will copy the wrong things from North America and Europe. Sexual harassment crap is a slogan of lesbian movement.

Osaze007:
Since igbos have decided they don’t have confidence to present themselves

VP should got to SW or SS as they produced the highest numbers of vote

SE is inconsequential

Popular vote is not a factor in electoral college process. One wonders why the PDP did not clear all the states in SW since more votes were accrued from the region. Today, SE has more PDP governors than SW. What is the essence of silly more votes from SW than SE?