₦airaland Forum

ShedrachU:
You be mumu.
Relying on shit.. market women are already cursing the generation of all IPOB BIGOTS, because the children and husband of most market women were their victims.

Sorry are you from southeast?
Ipob don rape your mama before or dem don kill any of your relatives?

od501:
What is needed in the Southern Nigeria is education like this. An undiluted truth about this abomination called Nigeria. But is a pity that even those we should be teaching these things are ignorant of it.

Thank you so much.
This is our generational fight;Our fathers tried ;they were baptized with genocide;We have to push back;or remain slaves forever; We are living in a slave camp;with no jobs (Over 100 million youths unemployed) No social amenities;Poverty capital of the world;third most terrorized place on earth;fraudulent caliphate 1999 constitution;unity for exploitation. Our future generations unborn need us.They are not building a nation but a Caliphate.

Yoruba, Ijaw, and other Nigerians should be thanking God for the Igbos, they are the reason Nigeria hasn’t been Islamised yet — OBASANJO.

Thank you comrade.

Skyfornia:
OP you obviously don't know anything about South East...forget what you read online, there's more peace in Igbo land than most part of Nigeria. I know this cause I'm Igbo, born and raised in Igbo land.

As at two days ago when I wanted to book air peace for easter (from Lagos to Onitsha), the ticket was sold out. Who are the ones buying the tickets, are they ghosts? Any Igbo abroad who is scared to come down home is hiding something...

The number of people who die daily in south west due to rituals, kidnapping etc are thrice more than the deaths in the east, same with northern part of the country, yet their people abroad are not scared to come home.

Igbos in the east are enjoying the holiday, it's only the guilty ones that are afraid.

you're born and brought up in igbo and you're travelling from Lagos to Onitsha how?



people in southeast are giving their experiences and you're defending these idiot terrorist in east, southwest is terrorise then you're still living there? why not live in your ritual free region then?



you igbo and pride, I just hope you call for help on time before these ipob terrorist consume you people

Ishilove:
Oh no!! IPOB, why??! Why are you eating your brothers and sisters? Why are you driving away your brethren in the diaspora? "Ndi IPOB bu ndi ohi.... Ndi IPOB na egbu mmadu.."

Why? IPOB WHYYYYYY??!!!!

Ndi IPOB bu ezigbote ndi ohi na ndi ogbu ara obara.

paramakina202:
Ndi IPOB bu ezigbote ndi ohi na ndi ogbu ara obara.

Very unfortunate.

The monsters you created

Skyfornia:
OP you obviously don't know anything about South East...forget what you read online, there's more peace in Igbo land than most part of Nigeria. I know this cause I'm Igbo, born and raised in Igbo land.

As at two days ago when I wanted to book air peace for easter (from Lagos to Onitsha), the ticket was sold out. Who are the ones buying the tickets, are they ghosts? Any Igbo abroad who is scared to come down home is hiding something...

The number of people who die daily in south west due to rituals, kidnapping etc are thrice more than the deaths in the east, same with northern part of the country, yet their people abroad are not scared to come home.

Igbos in the east are enjoying the holiday, it's only the guilty ones that are afraid.

I take it that you live in Lagos (from your flight)
Well I am Igbo and I live in the East. I am not enjoying the holidays and so are most people I know. We only stay at home because we don't want those guys to kill or harm us.

Oplomo:
Ewedu muslim NURTW buffoons painting lies on the social media against the East from under their ricketty brown roofs in oshogbo while perceiving the rotten odour from the decaying human skulls they are hiding under their dirty bug-infested beds.

I guess all of us here in the East are dead. Fake yoruba propaganda in the mud!

As far back as terrorism started in the north, is everyone living in the north dead?
Do we enjoy freedom of movement as much as we want here? No.

paramakina202:
Ndi IPOB bu ezigbote ndi ohi na ndi ogbu ara obara.

This was where Marley called on the people to 'Emancipate yourselves from mental slavery, none but our selves can free our minds. '

COMPLETION OF UTHMAN DAN FODIO’S JIHAD - CONQUERING THE MIDDLE BELT AND THE SOUTH.

Gaslighting any opposition with control media;
Solid propaganda filled with lies.
Divide and conquer;create dubious states spilt indigenous people;enslave them mentally.
Weaponize poverty
Weaponize education
Master/slave relationship.
Fuedalist.

A stranger from Futadjalon;driving your Porsche like a Danfo

Cowards everywhere;
Slavery they sweet una die
Bunch of monkeys; with no self pride;brainless .
Love there elite class; that sold them into slavery.

Tufiakwa.

VPN11:
This was where Marley called on the people to 'Emancipate yourselves from mental slavery, none but our selves can free our minds. '

COMPLETION OF UTHMAN DAN FODIO’S JIHAD - CONQUERING THE MIDDLE BELT AND THE SOUTH.

Gaslighting any opposition with control media;
Solid propaganda filled with lies.
Divide and conquer;create dubious states spilt indigenous people;enslave them mentally.
Weaponize poverty
Weaponize education
Master/slave relationship.
Fuedalist.

A stranger from Futadjalon;driving your Porsche like a Danfo

Cowards everywhere;
Slavery they sweet una die
Bunch of monkeys; with no self pride;brainless .
Love there elite class; that sold them into slavery.

Tufiakwa.

Emancipate yourselves by IPOB killing and kidnapping umu Igbo okwaya?
Fulani herdsmen kill other tribe and win territory for their ethnic group while IPOB buy gun and use it to kill their own people and destroy their properties.IPOB is the most useless terrorist group worldwide.

paramakina202:
Emancipate yourselves by IPOB killing and kidnapping umu Igbo okwaya?
Fulani herdsmen kill other tribe and win territory for their ethnic group while IPOB buy gun and use it to kill their own people and destroy their properties.IPOB is the most useless terrorist group worldwide.

Evidence please;admissible in a rational court;can you defend any of your allegations in any court?
Yoruba, Ijaw, and other Nigerians should be thanking God for the Igbos, they are the reason Nigeria hasn’t been Islamised yet — OBASANJO

The Most Brilliant Black African Race – Facts And Figures From The US Academic Report.
Igbo people of Nigeria were ranked as the most intelligent tribe of black Africa in a US academic report in 2015.Jan 26, 2021


Igbos; how did we end up here?

To surround ourselves; with the dumbest ethnic groups in Africa;bunch of cowards;unintelligent ;unwise that can be enslaved; by a bunch of nomadic uneducated;Fuedalistic;land grabbers;criminals;that can even manipulate indigenous people to commit genocide against another.

Brain dead.

See chart below
The Most Brilliant Black African Race – Facts And Figures From The US Academic Report.
Igbo people of Nigeria were ranked as the most intelligent tribe of black Africa in a US academic report in 2015.Jan 26, 2021

VPN11:
Evidence please;admissible in a rational court;can you defend any of your allegations in any court?
Yoruba, Ijaw, and other Nigerians should be thanking God for the Igbos, they are the reason Nigeria hasn’t been Islamised yet — OBASANJO

The Most Brilliant Black African Race – Facts And Figures From The US Academic Report.
Igbo people of Nigeria were ranked as the most intelligent tribe of black Africa in a US academic report in 2015.Jan 26, 2021


Igbos; how did we end up here?

To surround ourselves; with the dumbest ethnic groups in Africa;bunch of cowards;unintelligent ;unwise that can be enslaved; by a bunch of nomadic uneducated;Fuedalistic;land grabbers;criminals;that can even manipulate indigenous people to commit genocide against another.

Brain dead.

See chart below
The Most Brilliant Black African Race – Facts And Figures From The US Academic Report.
Igbo people of Nigeria were ranked as the most intelligent tribe of black Africa in a US academic report in 2015.Jan 26, 2021

Bla bla bla bla Yet there is evidence of cannibalism in IPOB camps.
IPOB have become a thing of shame to ndi Igbo.

paramakina202:
Bla bla bla bla Yet there is evidence of cannibalism in IPOB camps.
IPOB have become a thing of shame to ndi Igbo.

Evidence admissible in court; please;not hear say; thats not admissible in any court;You are talking to an Igbo man ;the most intelligent black ethnic group in the world;your not talking your nomadic; slave masters; or any of our indigenous minions; in bed with them.

Prove with solid evidence; reason why your nomadic slave masters; are running away from there court rooms.

Follow the resistance
Or forever remain a slave.
Mr.liar Mohammed

Heroicvic:
Op sure took his time to dig out pictures from twitter and IG claiming ipob are murderers

I just hate the fact that they're killing security personnel coz they have families too
If you think they're not loved go south east go shout say dem be murderers na those market women go fess kill you before ipob

You don't need social media to tell people the set of killers we have in Nigeria
How many people has come out to accuse ipob of the death of their loved ones unlike bandit /bokoharam / iswap killing, maiming and raping people in the north

This is a sponsored post and paid propaganda by who knows
Make every body gettat abeg

Bro/sis I don't normally comment on this issue because how we react to it is totally different from how sensible person should

We are all human particularly blacks look at the rest of the world progressing and doing big things but here at home we're busy killing our ourselves in the name of freedom, tribe and religion

Bro killing is killing regardless of where is happening and who's responsible forget who's reporting
Stop comparing this is home land where we can boldly call our own
I don't know how true the accusation on ipob killing people of SE with guns but trust me with the amount of influence and power ipob has now if they true want to give SE that freedom humans deserve is achievable

In Nigeria 70-90% of what we use daily is imported
If any big project must be completed in Nigeria we must apply for loan
Even president get foreign assistant to handle to programs
The quality of living is not something to write home about
What's the true meaning of INDEPENDENCE

Development is not just about the big mansion and fine street but the quality of life which is most important

Ipob could do much in enhancing quality living to the people of SE
How?

Instead of the bad name they're giving to SE they should protect the name for investors to come in

Call on the followers to go invest in SE

You can imagine the amount of job that will be created in SE if they channel their energy in that direction

Bro I'm from imo state I have always dream of establishing something in my state but as it stands bro I'm scared
Imagine a foreigner


Bro i got alot to say but for now let's condemn every killing regardless of the location we're not comparing region but what's affecting our region

Peace bro
Hope grab

Skyfornia:
OP you obviously don't know anything about South East...forget what you read online, there's more peace in Igbo land than most part of Nigeria. I know this cause I'm Igbo, born and raised in Igbo land.

As at two days ago when I wanted to book air peace for easter (from Lagos to Onitsha), the ticket was sold out. Who are the ones buying the tickets, are they ghosts? Any Igbo abroad who is scared to come down home is hiding something...

The number of people who die daily in south west due to rituals, kidnapping etc are thrice more than the deaths in the east, same with northern part of the country, yet their people abroad are not scared to come home.

Igbos in the east are enjoying the holiday, it's only the guilty ones that are afraid.

This is what u don't understand about insurgency/insecurity/war. For all these years of Boko Haram insurgency in NE, nothing stops them from doing their usual businesses to survive. People outside the war ravaged zones are afraid of going there but the inhabitants of the places live and travel to their terrorized states just like u have asserted in the case of SE.
In the NW, Jigawa and KANO people know nothing about banditry. In other affected states of NW, those in cities and towns of the zone especially who do their businesses without traveling know nothing about insecurity also, they just see it in news.
However, this doesn't mean there is peace in those places.
You need to accept truth that SE is in serious security concern especially for travelers. It seems I so often go to SE than u and I very well know that there is no proper peace in that place.
Disregarding the insecurity in our places is a sign of zero empathy for the victims of insecurity, we need to recognize and appeal to Govt to do the needful.

ArewaNorth:
This is what u don't understand about insurgency/insecurity/war. For all these years of Boko Haram insurgency in NE, nothing stops them from doing their usual businesses to survive. People outside the war ravaged zones are afraid of going there but the inhabitants of the places live and travel to their terrorized states just like u have asserted in the case of SE.
In the NW, Jigawa and KANO people know nothing about banditry. In other affected states of NW, those in cities and towns of the zone especially who do their businesses without traveling know nothing about insecurity also, they just see it in news.
However, this doesn't mean there is peace in those places.
You need to accept truth that SE is in serious security concern especially for travelers. It seems I so often go to SE than u and I very well know that there is no proper peace in that place.
Disregarding the insecurity in our places is a sign of zero empathy for the victims of insecurity, we need to recognize and appeal to Govt to do the needful.

What most of you dont understand;
WE DO HAVE A GOVERNMENT in Nigeria;a government is formed by the people;they (People) relinquish there sovereignty to a state;( Social contract) the government ;in return provide security;and basic social amenities;

Nigerians never agreed; or sign to give away any social contract ;or sovereignty; to the state;The state created a constitution; without the people;the 1999 constitution is fraudulent;to protect the Caliphate; and the minions (warrant chiefs) politicians from every indigenous tribe;the caliphate select the chiefs;via a nollywood performance (election) ;They kill two birds with on stone;because your legitimizing your slavery by pretending you have a government via election.

Nigeria is a slave camp.
You dont have any legitimate civil rights.

SE = resistance
If indigenous people; all over the geographical areas of Nigeria ;How I wish they are wise; : I dont think they are; they should join the resistance; or be enslaved forever.
This people are building ;a Caliphate not a country.


"The new nation called Nigeria should be an estate of our great-grandfather, Uthman Dan Fodio. We must ruthlessly prevent a change of power. We use the minorities of the North as willing tools and the South as a conquered territory and never allow them to rule over us, and never allow them to have control over their future." ~ Ahmadu Bello

Skyfornia:
OP you obviously don't know anything about South East...forget what you read online, there's more peace in Igbo land than most part of Nigeria. I know this cause I'm Igbo, born and raised in Igbo land.

As at two days ago when I wanted to book air peace for easter (from Lagos to Onitsha), the ticket was sold out. Who are the ones buying the tickets, are they ghosts? Any Igbo abroad who is scared to come down home is hiding something...

The number of people who die daily in south west due to rituals, kidnapping etc are thrice more than the deaths in the east, same with northern part of the country, yet their people abroad are not scared to come home.

Igbos in the east are enjoying the holiday, it's only the guilty ones that are afraid.

onye nzuzu na oge n'adighi Anya oga eru gi. Kwadoghe ihe ojuo maka ubiam ji gi, onweghi ihe ha ji gi eme.

infohenry:
onye nzuzu na oge n'adighi Anya oga eru gi. Kwadoghe ihe ojuo maka ubiam ji gi, onweghi ihe ha ji gi eme.

I dont think your Igbo;you dont sound intelligent enough;your like the Biafrans ;in the Nigerian army committing; genocide against your own people.

In nature; every specie protects its own;so they dont go extinct;

Very narcissistic ;egocentric; selfish mindset.
The Fulanis are smart;enjoy your slave paradise; in the poverty capital of world.third most terrorized place on earth.

Na them Sabi ..... If you tell them to stop violent they will start insulting you.Dome stupid bastard ones will come here it is fake news but it will not be fake again when their region turn to Ghost Town .

adekolaelect:
Na them Sabi ..... If you tell them to stop violent they will start insulting you.Dome stupid bastard ones will come here it is fake news but it will not be fake again when their region turn to Ghost Town .

This breakfast;go reach everybody;na turn by turn;even If takes 1000 years;this people are on a mission to conquer and enslave indigenous people.

Oyo massacre: Buhari govt backs Fulani terrorists, war declared against Yoruba – Akintoye

Yall have done that before nah
The thing yall call *Civil War* was a genocide.
They have started beating the same drums once again; They use gaslighting with lies and propaganda's to tarnish any resistance.

COMPLETION OF UTHMAN DAN FODIO’S JIHAD - CONQUERING THE MIDDLE BELT AND THE SOUTH.

The West African Pilot of December 20, 1964 reported that Mallam Bala Garuba had proclaimed: “The conquest to the sea is now in sight. When our God-sent Ahmadu Bello said some years ago that our conquest will reach the sea shores of Nigeria some idiots in the South were doubting its possibility. Today have we not reached the sea? Lagos is reached. It remains Port Harcourt. It must be conquered and taken.”



In 1966 after orchestrating and participating in the slaughter of 100,000 Igbo and other Easterners all over Northern Nigeria and anointing himself Head of State and Supreme Commander of Nigeria, Yakubu Gowon in his first radio address to the country actually stated as follows: “Taking everything into consideration, the basis of unity (in Nigeria ) is not there.”

In a terribly unguarded moment of brazen buffoonery, Aliyu Gwarzo, former head of the Nigeria State Security Service blurted out the following: ''When I say that the Presidency must come to the north next year I am referring to the Hausa-Fulani core north and not any northern Christian or Muslim minority tribe. The Christians in the north such as the Berom, the Tiv, the Kataf, the Jaba, the Zuru, the Sayyawa, the Bachama, the Jukun, the Idoma, the Burra, the Kilba, the Mbula, and all the others are nothing and the Muslim minorities in the north, including the Kanuri, the Nupe, the Igbira, the Babur, the Shuwa Arabs, the Marghur, the Bade, the Bura, the Igalla, the Zerma, the Bariba, the Gwari and all the others know that when we are talking about leadership in the north and in Nigeria, Allah has given it to us, the Hausa-Fulani. They can grumble, moan and groan as much as they want but each time they go into their bedrooms to meet their wives and each time they get on their prayer mats to begin their prayers, it is we the Fulani that they think of, that they fear, that they bow to and that they pray for. Some of them are even ready to give us their wives and daughters for one nights sport and pleasure. They owe us everything. This is because we gave them Islam through the great Jihad waged by Sheik Uthman Dan Fodio. We also captured Ilorin, killed their local King and installed our Fulani Emir. We took that ancient town away from the barbarian Yoruba and their filthy pagan gods. We liberated all these places and all these people by imposing Islam on them by force. It was either the Koran or the sword and most of them chose the Koran. In return for the good works of our forefathers Allah, through the British, gave us Nigeria to rule and to do with as we please. Since 1960 we have been doing that and we intend to continue. The Igbo tried to stop us in 1966 and between 1967 and 1969 they paid a terrible price. They were brought to heel and since then they have been broken. No Goodluck or anyone else will stop us from taking back our power next year. We will kill, maim, destroy and turn this country into Africa's biggest war zone and refugee camp if they try it. Many say we are behind Boko Haram. My answer is what do you expect? We do not have economic power or intellectual power. All we have is political power and they want to take even that from us. We must fight and we will fight back in order to keep it. They have brought in the infidels from America and the pigs from Israel to help them but they will fail. The war has just begun, the Mujahadeen are more than ready and by Allah we shall win. If they don't want an ISIS in Nigeria then they must give us back the Presidency and our political power. Their soldiers are killing our warriors and our people every day but mark this: even if it takes one hundred years we will have our revenge. Every Fulani man that they kill is a debt that will be repaid even if it takes 100 years. The Fulani have very long memories.'' Aliyu Ismaila Gwarzo is a former Head of Nigerian State Security Service.


Yoruba, Ijaw, and other Nigerians should be thanking God for the Igbos, they are the reason Nigeria hasn’t been Islamised yet — OBASANJO

"The new nation called Nigeria should be an estate of our great-grandfather, Uthman Dan Fodio. We must ruthlessly prevent a change of power. We use the minorities of the North as willing tools and the South as a conquered territory and never allow them to rule over us, and never allow them to have control over their future." ~ Ahmadu Bello

"Nigeria is not a nation. It is a mere geographical expression. There are no 'Nigerians' in the same sense as there are 'English,' 'Welsh,' or 'French.' The word 'Nigerian' is merely a distinctive appellation to distinguish those who live within the boundaries of Nigeria and those who do not." ~ Obafemi Awolowo

"After rain comes sunshine; After darkness comes the glorious dawn. There is no sorrow without its alloy of joy; there is no joy without its admixture of sorrow. Behind the ugly terrible mask of misfortune lies the beautiful soothing countenance of prosperity. So, tear the mask!" ~ Obafemi Awolowo

VPN11:
What most of you dont understand;
WE DO HAVE A GOVERNMENT in Nigeria;a government is formed by the people;they (People) relinquish there sovereignty to a state;( Social contract) the government ;in return provide security;and basic social amenities;

Nigerians never agreed; or sign to give away any social contract ;or sovereignty; to the state;The state created a constitution; without the people;the 1999 constitution is fraudulent;to protect the Caliphate; and the minions (warrant chiefs) politicians from every indigenous tribe;the caliphate select the chiefs;via a nollywood performance (election) ;They kill two birds with on stone;because your legitimizing your slavery by pretending you have a government via election.

Nigeria is a slave camp.
You dont have any legitimate civil rights.

SE = resistance
If indigenous people; all over the geographical areas of Nigeria ;How I wish they are wise; : I dont think they are; they should join the resistance; or be enslaved forever.
This people are building ;a Caliphate not a country.


"The new nation called Nigeria should be an estate of our great-grandfather, Uthman Dan Fodio. We must ruthlessly prevent a change of power. We use the minorities of the North as willing tools and the South as a conquered territory and never allow them to rule over us, and never allow them to have control over their future." ~ Ahmadu Bello

Stop spreading falsehood created by authors of evil with no link to the accused.


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.


Those who believed that the constitution was imposed or dictated by military are just insulting the wisdom and character of their forefathers for accepting what is imposed on them by chairing the committee and drafting what they reject!

ArewaNorth:
Stop spreading falsehood created by authors of evil with no link to the accused.


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.


Those who believed that the constitution was imposed or dictated by military are just insulting the wisdom and character of their forefathers for accepting what is imposed on them by chairing the committee and drafting what they reject!

You have a long way to go.
Sorry I cant help you.

I use quatations from renowned personalities;I do my research very thoroughly.

If you can read;then counter ;my factual research ;with facts;you sound educationally lazy;may be a *D* or E*
student.
We can agree to disagree amicably.I like to exercise my thinking faculty;Im not a nomad; like your slave masters from Futadjalon.

Biggerbrocom:
Bro/sis I don't normally comment on this issue because how we react to it is totally different from how sensible person should

We are all human particularly blacks look at the rest of the world progressing and doing big things but here at home we're busy killing our ourselves in the name of freedom, tribe and religion

Bro killing is killing regardless of where is happening and who's responsible forget who's reporting
Stop comparing this is home land where we can boldly call our own
I don't know how true the accusation on ipob killing people of SE with guns but trust me with the amount of influence and power ipob has now if they true want to give SE that freedom humans deserve is achievable

In Nigeria 70-90% of what we use daily is imported
If any big project must be completed in Nigeria we must apply for loan
Even president get foreign assistant to handle to programs
The quality of living is not something to write home about
What's the true meaning of INDEPENDENCE

Development is not just about the big mansion and fine street but the quality of life which is most important

Ipob could do much in enhancing quality living to the people of SE
How?

Instead of the bad name they're giving to SE they should protect the name for investors to come in

Call on the followers to go invest in SE

You can imagine the amount of job that will be created in SE if they channel their energy in that direction

Bro I'm from imo state I have always dream of establishing something in my state but as it stands bro I'm scared
Imagine a foreigner


Bro i got alot to say but for now let's condemn every killing regardless of the location we're not comparing region but what's affecting our region

Peace bro
Hope grab

I understand you bro but we ain't talking about economy now
Is ipob killing people as being painted here?

You're telling them to make SE a palatable Haven for investment that will benefit the federal government and the allocation been sent to northeast at last

We all need peace and freedom bruh

I believe those painting them black on social media are either the security personnel killed or paid propagandist

MAKE EVERYBODY GETTAT ABEG

This article is laughable

The same Igbo groups in diaspora donated foreign cash to Ipob to buy arms to fight Fulanis, Now Ipob made a reverse instead of killing Fulani herdsmen they are killing Igbos who donated the money

paramakina202:
Emancipate yourselves by IPOB killing and kidnapping umu Igbo okwaya?
Fulani herdsmen kill other tribe and win territory for their ethnic group while IPOB buy gun and use it to kill their own people and destroy their properties.IPOB is the most useless terrorist group worldwide.

If you let them do it to Biafrans;for asking for a referendum;gaslighting them with propaganda's and lies for fighting for a just cause;Remember this whenever they done with the Biafrans;they will come for your people too;The quest is to conquer the entire geographical region;killing Biafrans wont create jobs for you;killing Biafrans wont give you electricity.

The West African Pilot of December 20, 1964 reported that Mallam Bala Garuba had proclaimed: “The conquest to the sea is now in sight. When our God-sent Ahmadu Bello said some years ago that our conquest will reach the sea shores of Nigeria some idiots in the South were doubting its possibility. Today have we not reached the sea? Lagos is reached. It remains Port Harcourt. It must be conquered and taken.”



In 1966 after orchestrating and participating in the slaughter of 100,000 Igbo and other Easterners all over Northern Nigeria and anointing himself Head of State and Supreme Commander of Nigeria, Yakubu Gowon in his first radio address to the country actually stated as follows: “Taking everything into consideration, the basis of unity (in Nigeria ) is not there.”

In a terribly unguarded moment of brazen buffoonery, Aliyu Gwarzo, former head of the Nigeria State Security Service blurted out the following: ''When I say that the Presidency must come to the north next year I am referring to the Hausa-Fulani core north and not any northern Christian or Muslim minority tribe. The Christians in the north such as the Berom, the Tiv, the Kataf, the Jaba, the Zuru, the Sayyawa, the Bachama, the Jukun, the Idoma, the Burra, the Kilba, the Mbula, and all the others are nothing and the Muslim minorities in the north, including the Kanuri, the Nupe, the Igbira, the Babur, the Shuwa Arabs, the Marghur, the Bade, the Bura, the Igalla, the Zerma, the Bariba, the Gwari and all the others know that when we are talking about leadership in the north and in Nigeria, Allah has given it to us, the Hausa-Fulani. They can grumble, moan and groan as much as they want but each time they go into their bedrooms to meet their wives and each time they get on their prayer mats to begin their prayers, it is we the Fulani that they think of, that they fear, that they bow to and that they pray for. Some of them are even ready to give us their wives and daughters for one nights sport and pleasure. They owe us everything. This is because we gave them Islam through the great Jihad waged by Sheik Uthman Dan Fodio. We also captured Ilorin, killed their local King and installed our Fulani Emir. We took that ancient town away from the barbarian Yoruba and their filthy pagan gods. We liberated all these places and all these people by imposing Islam on them by force. It was either the Koran or the sword and most of them chose the Koran. In return for the good works of our forefathers Allah, through the British, gave us Nigeria to rule and to do with as we please. Since 1960 we have been doing that and we intend to continue. The Igbo tried to stop us in 1966 and between 1967 and 1969 they paid a terrible price. They were brought to heel and since then they have been broken. Nobody will stop us from taking back our power next year. We will kill, maim, destroy and turn this country into Africa's biggest war zone and refugee camp if they try it. Many say we are behind Boko Haram. My answer is what do you expect? We do not have economic power or intellectual power. All we have is political power and they want to take even that from us. We must fight and we will fight back in order to keep it. They have brought in the infidels from America and the pigs from Israel to help them but they will fail. The war has just begun, the Mujahadeen are more than ready and by Allah we shall win. If they don't want an ISIS in Nigeria then they must give us back the Presidency and our political power. Their soldiers are killing our warriors and our people every day but mark this: even if it takes one hundred years we will have our revenge. Every Fulani man that they kill is a debt that will be repaid even if it takes 100 years. The Fulani have very long memories.'' Aliyu Ismaila Gwarzo is a former Head of Nigerian State Security Service.
Those who have ears; should hear this ;once they done with the Biafrans ;they will come for you too;this breakfast go reach everybody las las

ArewaNorth:
Stop spreading falsehood created by authors of evil with no link to the accused.


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.


Those who believed that the constitution was imposed or dictated by military are just insulting the wisdom and character of their forefathers for accepting what is imposed on them by chairing the committee and drafting what they reject!

The 1999 constitution is a fraud, Nigeria needs brand-new constitution – Ayo Adebanjo

The leader of Afenifere, a pan-Yoruba group, Chief Ayo Adebanjo, at the ‘Nigeria’s 2023 presidential transition inter-ethnic peace dialogue which held at Transcorp Hilton Hotel, Abuja, on Monday, declared that Nigeria’s 1999 Constitution is a fraud, adding that the constitution was arbitrarily imposed on Nigerians by the military and has been the major source of threats of disintegration of the country. The Afenifere leader, therefore, advocated that the only thing that can save Nigeria from a second civil war and disintegration is to change the Nigerian constitution to a federal system.

Adebanjo in his keynote address at the Dialogue, pointed out that majority of the things causing tension, disharmony, instability in Nigeria, namely revenue allocation, security, ethnicity, devolution of powers etc., have been taken care of by the founding fathers in the Pre-Independence Federal Constitution. He decried that “unfortunately, however, the military (dominated by Northern Muslims) incursion into the political arena in 1966 scuttled the constitution and introduced a military unitary system. Since then, we have not got our bearing.”



Adebanjo commended the sponsors and organizers of the dialogue titled: “Nigeria’s 2023 Presidential Transition Inter-Ethnic Peace Dialogue.” for their concern and love for the continued existence of the country in peace and unity.

He emphasized that the organizers of the programme acknowledge the fact that Nigeria is presently faced with ‘critical threats’ capable of engendering another civil war and ‘forceful political break-up’. He cited that the organisers in the invitation letters to participants indicated inter alia: “Nigeria is on the brink of a second civil war and certainly will not survive it. The political atmosphere is already over-saturated with tensions and getting more combustive and volatile.

“This is the reason we must act now, in order to prevent the ethnic cleansing, bloodbath, mass murder, genocide and forceful disintegration waiting to happen. The damaging consequences will be grievous if these critical warnings are taken for granted. We are sitting on a ticking time bomb, and it is about to explode.”

Adebanjo maintained that there is no doubt whatsoever that Nigeria is presently faced with critical threats of imminent second civil war and forceful political break-up and perhaps even more. The Afenifere leader stated that indicators of these could be seen in part in the scale of banditry going on in the country, in the unprecedented level of kidnapping and destruction of government properties as being witnessed presently in the southeast and, of course, the strident voices for secession.
When the foregoing and many others that we have not mentioned are put into consideration, there could not be any controversy that Nigeria is indeed on the precipice.

“To us in Afenifere, it is possible to reverse this trend and prevent Nigeria from falling into the dungeon and perhaps break into pieces that cannot even be sewn together ever again.

“Although we are at the precipice now, to us, the solution is simple. Change the constitution to a federal system,” Adebanjo declared.

The Afenifere leader argued that the present 1999 constitution is tilted in favour of the North against the South. “It arbitrarily creates more states and local governments in the North than the South, and based on this fraud, prescribes sumptuous monthly financial allocations to the states that produce very little, if at all, while those which produce more get only a bit.

“For emphasis and clarity, the creation of states and local government areas was not based on the principle of equity, justice and fair play. For example, against all known demographic norms, the North with enormous areas of unoccupied arid land is said to be more in population than the South.

“It is only in Nigeria that the known rule in geography all over the world that the nearer the desert the fewer the population is obeyed in reverse with the North claiming a population that cannot be physically verified except you are going to count the cows and the cattle in the area.

“This false population is used to give more political representation in the Legislative chambers where decisions affecting the whole country are taken. Also, and in a manner suffused with impunity, Kano State which was created in 1967 and with an identical population with Lagos State created on the same date and time now has 77 local governments with Lagos State still paddle with 20 local government areas,” Adebanjo further declared.

The Afenifere leader also pointed out that “under this obnoxious constitution, the governors are described as the Chief Security officers of their respective states, but all the apparatus of security are vested in the federal government, this makes it impossible for the governors described as chief security officer to be able to deploy the personnel of any of the security agencies.”

He maintained that “it is a firm contention of Afenifere that the 1999 constitution is a fraud. Its preamble says, ‘we the people of the Federal Republic.’ The question is, did we make the constitution? Are we Federal?”

He decried that the President Buhari government now tells Nigerians to amend a constitution they never made; and to make logic stand on its head, the amendment is to be made by the National Assembly which is a beneficiary of the fraudulent constitution.

He expressed that the Afenifere believes the country needs a brand new constitution agreed to by all the nationalities in the country.

“If a new constitution is made on the basis of true federalism, there will be no more agitations for Oduduwa Republic, and other self-determination groups. Because what gave birth to their agitations would have been taken care of.

“So, we are calling on all those who are supporting President Muhammadu Buhari to persuade him to let us change the constitution to what we can call our Constitution, a constitution that prescribes genuine and true federalism that heralds a restructured Nigeria,” Adebanjo said.

He assured that if this is done, Buhari’s name would be written in gold. According to Adebanjo, “having such a constitution that restructured Nigeria to federalism will prevent the country from going under.”

Adebanjo clarified that Afenifere does not believe or support secession; declaring: “we owe no apology for being the chief advocate for restructuring Nigeria to Federalism. Let the opponents of restructuring and cohort of the Federal Government stop the blackmail or labelling advocates of restructuring as secessionists, for advocates of restructuring are “Federalists not Secessionist.”

He asserted that the irreducible minimum condition of Yorubaland of being part of Nigeria is a restructured Nigeria to Federalism. The Afenifere leader insisted that “Yorubaland will not be in Nigeria under the present military imposed constitution.”

He highlighted: “It is on record that we are the only organization that has fought relentlessly for the unity of this country.

“When the North led by Saudana of Sokoto, Sir Ahmadu Bello, wanted to separate in 1953 when it declared the nine-point program of separation, it was our leader, Chief Obafemi Awolowo, that persuaded the North from so doing as the fears of the North under a Unitary form of government will be taken care of under a federal system.

“This action gave Chief Awolowo the pseudonym ‘Father of Federalism in Nigeria.’

“It is worth recalling – for those who either did not know or for those who might have forgotten – that Afenifere party (Action Group), was the only party that had elected members in all the parliament in every part of the Nigerian federation during the First Republic.

“It is the opposition party led by Alhaji Sule Maito in the Northern House of Assembly, opposition party in Eastern House of Assembly led by S.G Ikoku, and opposition party in the Federal House led by Chief S.L. Akintola, and of course, formed the government in the Western Region, under Chief Obafemi Awolowo. No other political party had that distinction.

“So, for anyone to underrate the contributions that we, the Yoruba, have made to the unity of this country, it means that the person is either not conversant with contemporary Nigeria history or is being mischievous.”

Adebanjo, thereafter, revealed what the Afenifere members are bringing to the table for consideration.

According to him: “we believe strongly that the proposal below will bring us back from the precipice and salvage the country.”

He narrated that at independence, Nigeria was being run on a federal structure with three near-autonomous regions. This was later increased to four with the creation of Mid-Western Region. But the military junta that seized power in 1966 dismantled the regional structure and instead imposed a unitary system of government on the country. “The damage this caused was devastating and we are still writhing under its debilitating effects even now!”

He said that it is a universal axiom that power resides with the people.
“For this reason, we are hereby proposing that ethnic nationalities and peoples of Nigeria be allowed to exercise their mandate and sovereignty on how they want to live together under mutually beneficial terms.

“Flowing from the above, something like the United Regions of Nigeria (URN) is hereby proposed.

“The structure can take the following form:

But before talking about the form, let me emphasize that there should be no artificially prescribed number of regions in a manner that may foreclose the rights of the people that desire to organize themselves as a semi- autonomous regional member of the Nigerian State so long as the territory desiring such regional status can guarantee its self-sustenance and viability as an entity.

“In this proposal, powers, mandate and authority to formulate the articles of association to form the Central Government of Nigeria shall in effect lie jointly and severally with the ethnic nationalities occupying their respective territories and not with law makers who were randomly picked.

“Nigeria shall be subsequently organized into a Union or Federation of voluntarily associating and cooperative Regional entities like we had up till 1966.

“Unlike what we have presently, each region may have a Constitution of its own which would spell out how it is to be governed. There would be a National Constitution binding all the regions in the country together.

“In this latter constitution would be spelt out mutually agreed terms under which the peoples of the country agree to cohabit together as citizens of the same country,” he advocated.

He further declared that “Afenifere is hereby proposing as one of the resolutions of this Summit, a template that would make it possible for – indeed, encourage – every ethnic nationality to organize themselves and prepare terms that would guide their relationship with other ethnic nationalities in the country in a harmonious and mutually respecting manner. “From such collation of terms would emerge Regional Constitutions out of which National Constitution would be forged.

“The Constitution, be it at Regional or National level, must accord unqualified respect to democratic norms and the rights of the people to actively participate in matters that have to do with their lives. The constitutions must also emphasize true federalism in such a way that no region or area would have power to lord it over another region or area.”

According to Adebanjo, among the expected contents of the envisaged Constitutions are unreserved powers of the Regions over natural resources in their respective areas, agriculture, education, health, electricity, security, and economy etc.

He maintained: “It is hereby further proposed that each region furnish 10 per cent of what it generates to the national purse. The region retains 30 per cent; the states take 35 per cent while the local governments take 25 per cent.”

He stated that in order to ensure that this proposal does not go the way of various Reports that have come from various panels or assemblages constituted by governments, timeline is hereby suggested in the following manner:

Ethnic nationalities in the country be encouraged to prepare their document on Terms of Engagement between now and December 2021. The documents from the nationalities in which they propose the kind of regional government they want to form be collated and considered between January and March 2022.

The product of this process should then produce the document that will become the Constitution of the United Regions of Nigeria or Federal Republic of Nigeria.

He reiterated that the issue of true federalism must be central in every of the Constitution or Article of Engagement so produced.

True Federalism that emphasizes Self-Determination.

A National Referendum can be conducted on the adoption of the final Constitution for the Restructured Nigeria around the middle of 2022.

The said Constitution can then become effective from October 01, 2022.

Adebanjo advocated also that a Committee can be set up to work out the details of the proposal hereby suggested.

“We are ready to present the details as we conceive it to the said Committee if formed.

“It is the belief of Afenifere that it will be unrealistic and unpatriotic in our present precarious disintegrating tendencies that Buhari government should contemplate holding any election before the proposed harmonious constitution becomes operative. “We believe there should be a country before an election is contemplated.

“Afenifere presents this proposal for the consideration of this dialogue; in the hope that its faithful implementation will save the country from disintegration and its citizen will henceforth live in peace and unity,” Adebanjo declared.

VPN11:
If you let them do it to Biafrans;for asking for a referendum;gaslighting them with propaganda's and lies for fighting for a just cause;Remember this whenever they done with the Biafrans;they will come for your people too;The quest is to conquer the entire geographical region;killing Biafrans wont create jobs for you;killing Biafrans wont give you electricity.

The West African Pilot of December 20, 1964 reported that Mallam Bala Garuba had proclaimed: “The conquest to the sea is now in sight. When our God-sent Ahmadu Bello said some years ago that our conquest will reach the sea shores of Nigeria some idiots in the South were doubting its possibility. Today have we not reached the sea? Lagos is reached. It remains Port Harcourt. It must be conquered and taken.”



In 1966 after orchestrating and participating in the slaughter of 100,000 Igbo and other Easterners all over Northern Nigeria and anointing himself Head of State and Supreme Commander of Nigeria, Yakubu Gowon in his first radio address to the country actually stated as follows: “Taking everything into consideration, the basis of unity (in Nigeria ) is not there.”

In a terribly unguarded moment of brazen buffoonery, Aliyu Gwarzo, former head of the Nigeria State Security Service blurted out the following: ''When I say that the Presidency must come to the north next year I am referring to the Hausa-Fulani core north and not any northern Christian or Muslim minority tribe. The Christians in the north such as the Berom, the Tiv, the Kataf, the Jaba, the Zuru, the Sayyawa, the Bachama, the Jukun, the Idoma, the Burra, the Kilba, the Mbula, and all the others are nothing and the Muslim minorities in the north, including the Kanuri, the Nupe, the Igbira, the Babur, the Shuwa Arabs, the Marghur, the Bade, the Bura, the Igalla, the Zerma, the Bariba, the Gwari and all the others know that when we are talking about leadership in the north and in Nigeria, Allah has given it to us, the Hausa-Fulani. They can grumble, moan and groan as much as they want but each time they go into their bedrooms to meet their wives and each time they get on their prayer mats to begin their prayers, it is we the Fulani that they think of, that they fear, that they bow to and that they pray for. Some of them are even ready to give us their wives and daughters for one nights sport and pleasure. They owe us everything. This is because we gave them Islam through the great Jihad waged by Sheik Uthman Dan Fodio. We also captured Ilorin, killed their local King and installed our Fulani Emir. We took that ancient town away from the barbarian Yoruba and their filthy pagan gods. We liberated all these places and all these people by imposing Islam on them by force. It was either the Koran or the sword and most of them chose the Koran. In return for the good works of our forefathers Allah, through the British, gave us Nigeria to rule and to do with as we please. Since 1960 we have been doing that and we intend to continue. The Igbo tried to stop us in 1966 and between 1967 and 1969 they paid a terrible price. They were brought to heel and since then they have been broken. Nobody will stop us from taking back our power next year. We will kill, maim, destroy and turn this country into Africa's biggest war zone and refugee camp if they try it. Many say we are behind Boko Haram. My answer is what do you expect? We do not have economic power or intellectual power. All we have is political power and they want to take even that from us. We must fight and we will fight back in order to keep it. They have brought in the infidels from America and the pigs from Israel to help them but they will fail. The war has just begun, the Mujahadeen are more than ready and by Allah we shall win. If they don't want an ISIS in Nigeria then they must give us back the Presidency and our political power. Their soldiers are killing our warriors and our people every day but mark this: even if it takes one hundred years we will have our revenge. Every Fulani man that they kill is a debt that will be repaid even if it takes 100 years. The Fulani have very long memories.'' Aliyu Ismaila Gwarzo is a former Head of Nigerian State Security Service.
Those who have ears; should hear this ;once they done with the Biafrans ;they will come for you too;this breakfast go reach everybody las las

You think I will read that epistle of lies and deceit?
Until IPOB stop killing their own people they have nothing to offer.

VPN11:
The 1999 constitution is a fraud, Nigeria needs brand-new constitution – Ayo Adebanjo

The leader of Afenifere, a pan-Yoruba group, Chief Ayo Adebanjo, at the ‘Nigeria’s 2023 presidential transition inter-ethnic peace dialogue which held at Transcorp Hilton Hotel, Abuja, on Monday, declared that Nigeria’s 1999 Constitution is a fraud, adding that the constitution was arbitrarily imposed on Nigerians by the military and has been the major source of threats of disintegration of the country. The Afenifere leader, therefore, advocated that the only thing that can save Nigeria from a second civil war and disintegration is to change the Nigerian constitution to a federal system.

Adebanjo in his keynote address at the Dialogue, pointed out that majority of the things causing tension, disharmony, instability in Nigeria, namely revenue allocation, security, ethnicity, devolution of powers etc., have been taken care of by the founding fathers in the Pre-Independence Federal Constitution. He decried that “unfortunately, however, the military (dominated by Northern Muslims) incursion into the political arena in 1966 scuttled the constitution and introduced a military unitary system. Since then, we have not got our bearing.”



Adebanjo commended the sponsors and organizers of the dialogue titled: “Nigeria’s 2023 Presidential Transition Inter-Ethnic Peace Dialogue.” for their concern and love for the continued existence of the country in peace and unity.

He emphasized that the organizers of the programme acknowledge the fact that Nigeria is presently faced with ‘critical threats’ capable of engendering another civil war and ‘forceful political break-up’. He cited that the organisers in the invitation letters to participants indicated inter alia: “Nigeria is on the brink of a second civil war and certainly will not survive it. The political atmosphere is already over-saturated with tensions and getting more combustive and volatile.

“This is the reason we must act now, in order to prevent the ethnic cleansing, bloodbath, mass murder, genocide and forceful disintegration waiting to happen. The damaging consequences will be grievous if these critical warnings are taken for granted. We are sitting on a ticking time bomb, and it is about to explode.”

Adebanjo maintained that there is no doubt whatsoever that Nigeria is presently faced with critical threats of imminent second civil war and forceful political break-up and perhaps even more. The Afenifere leader stated that indicators of these could be seen in part in the scale of banditry going on in the country, in the unprecedented level of kidnapping and destruction of government properties as being witnessed presently in the southeast and, of course, the strident voices for secession.
When the foregoing and many others that we have not mentioned are put into consideration, there could not be any controversy that Nigeria is indeed on the precipice.

“To us in Afenifere, it is possible to reverse this trend and prevent Nigeria from falling into the dungeon and perhaps break into pieces that cannot even be sewn together ever again.

“Although we are at the precipice now, to us, the solution is simple. Change the constitution to a federal system,” Adebanjo declared.

The Afenifere leader argued that the present 1999 constitution is tilted in favour of the North against the South. “It arbitrarily creates more states and local governments in the North than the South, and based on this fraud, prescribes sumptuous monthly financial allocations to the states that produce very little, if at all, while those which produce more get only a bit.

“For emphasis and clarity, the creation of states and local government areas was not based on the principle of equity, justice and fair play. For example, against all known demographic norms, the North with enormous areas of unoccupied arid land is said to be more in population than the South.

“It is only in Nigeria that the known rule in geography all over the world that the nearer the desert the fewer the population is obeyed in reverse with the North claiming a population that cannot be physically verified except you are going to count the cows and the cattle in the area.

“This false population is used to give more political representation in the Legislative chambers where decisions affecting the whole country are taken. Also, and in a manner suffused with impunity, Kano State which was created in 1967 and with an identical population with Lagos State created on the same date and time now has 77 local governments with Lagos State still paddle with 20 local government areas,” Adebanjo further declared.

The Afenifere leader also pointed out that “under this obnoxious constitution, the governors are described as the Chief Security officers of their respective states, but all the apparatus of security are vested in the federal government, this makes it impossible for the governors described as chief security officer to be able to deploy the personnel of any of the security agencies.”

He maintained that “it is a firm contention of Afenifere that the 1999 constitution is a fraud. Its preamble says, ‘we the people of the Federal Republic.’ The question is, did we make the constitution? Are we Federal?”

He decried that the President Buhari government now tells Nigerians to amend a constitution they never made; and to make logic stand on its head, the amendment is to be made by the National Assembly which is a beneficiary of the fraudulent constitution.

He expressed that the Afenifere believes the country needs a brand new constitution agreed to by all the nationalities in the country.

“If a new constitution is made on the basis of true federalism, there will be no more agitations for Oduduwa Republic, and other self-determination groups. Because what gave birth to their agitations would have been taken care of.

“So, we are calling on all those who are supporting President Muhammadu Buhari to persuade him to let us change the constitution to what we can call our Constitution, a constitution that prescribes genuine and true federalism that heralds a restructured Nigeria,” Adebanjo said.

He assured that if this is done, Buhari’s name would be written in gold. According to Adebanjo, “having such a constitution that restructured Nigeria to federalism will prevent the country from going under.”

Adebanjo clarified that Afenifere does not believe or support secession; declaring: “we owe no apology for being the chief advocate for restructuring Nigeria to Federalism. Let the opponents of restructuring and cohort of the Federal Government stop the blackmail or labelling advocates of restructuring as secessionists, for advocates of restructuring are “Federalists not Secessionist.”

He asserted that the irreducible minimum condition of Yorubaland of being part of Nigeria is a restructured Nigeria to Federalism. The Afenifere leader insisted that “Yorubaland will not be in Nigeria under the present military imposed constitution.”

He highlighted: “It is on record that we are the only organization that has fought relentlessly for the unity of this country.

“When the North led by Saudana of Sokoto, Sir Ahmadu Bello, wanted to separate in 1953 when it declared the nine-point program of separation, it was our leader, Chief Obafemi Awolowo, that persuaded the North from so doing as the fears of the North under a Unitary form of government will be taken care of under a federal system.

“This action gave Chief Awolowo the pseudonym ‘Father of Federalism in Nigeria.’

“It is worth recalling – for those who either did not know or for those who might have forgotten – that Afenifere party (Action Group), was the only party that had elected members in all the parliament in every part of the Nigerian federation during the First Republic.

“It is the opposition party led by Alhaji Sule Maito in the Northern House of Assembly, opposition party in Eastern House of Assembly led by S.G Ikoku, and opposition party in the Federal House led by Chief S.L. Akintola, and of course, formed the government in the Western Region, under Chief Obafemi Awolowo. No other political party had that distinction.

“So, for anyone to underrate the contributions that we, the Yoruba, have made to the unity of this country, it means that the person is either not conversant with contemporary Nigeria history or is being mischievous.”

Adebanjo, thereafter, revealed what the Afenifere members are bringing to the table for consideration.

According to him: “we believe strongly that the proposal below will bring us back from the precipice and salvage the country.”

He narrated that at independence, Nigeria was being run on a federal structure with three near-autonomous regions. This was later increased to four with the creation of Mid-Western Region. But the military junta that seized power in 1966 dismantled the regional structure and instead imposed a unitary system of government on the country. “The damage this caused was devastating and we are still writhing under its debilitating effects even now!”

He said that it is a universal axiom that power resides with the people.
“For this reason, we are hereby proposing that ethnic nationalities and peoples of Nigeria be allowed to exercise their mandate and sovereignty on how they want to live together under mutually beneficial terms.

“Flowing from the above, something like the United Regions of Nigeria (URN) is hereby proposed.

“The structure can take the following form:

But before talking about the form, let me emphasize that there should be no artificially prescribed number of regions in a manner that may foreclose the rights of the people that desire to organize themselves as a semi- autonomous regional member of the Nigerian State so long as the territory desiring such regional status can guarantee its self-sustenance and viability as an entity.

“In this proposal, powers, mandate and authority to formulate the articles of association to form the Central Government of Nigeria shall in effect lie jointly and severally with the ethnic nationalities occupying their respective territories and not with law makers who were randomly picked.

“Nigeria shall be subsequently organized into a Union or Federation of voluntarily associating and cooperative Regional entities like we had up till 1966.

“Unlike what we have presently, each region may have a Constitution of its own which would spell out how it is to be governed. There would be a National Constitution binding all the regions in the country together.

“In this latter constitution would be spelt out mutually agreed terms under which the peoples of the country agree to cohabit together as citizens of the same country,” he advocated.

He further declared that “Afenifere is hereby proposing as one of the resolutions of this Summit, a template that would make it possible for – indeed, encourage – every ethnic nationality to organize themselves and prepare terms that would guide their relationship with other ethnic nationalities in the country in a harmonious and mutually respecting manner. “From such collation of terms would emerge Regional Constitutions out of which National Constitution would be forged.

“The Constitution, be it at Regional or National level, must accord unqualified respect to democratic norms and the rights of the people to actively participate in matters that have to do with their lives. The constitutions must also emphasize true federalism in such a way that no region or area would have power to lord it over another region or area.”

According to Adebanjo, among the expected contents of the envisaged Constitutions are unreserved powers of the Regions over natural resources in their respective areas, agriculture, education, health, electricity, security, and economy etc.

He maintained: “It is hereby further proposed that each region furnish 10 per cent of what it generates to the national purse. The region retains 30 per cent; the states take 35 per cent while the local governments take 25 per cent.”

He stated that in order to ensure that this proposal does not go the way of various Reports that have come from various panels or assemblages constituted by governments, timeline is hereby suggested in the following manner:

Ethnic nationalities in the country be encouraged to prepare their document on Terms of Engagement between now and December 2021. The documents from the nationalities in which they propose the kind of regional government they want to form be collated and considered between January and March 2022.

The product of this process should then produce the document that will become the Constitution of the United Regions of Nigeria or Federal Republic of Nigeria.

He reiterated that the issue of true federalism must be central in every of the Constitution or Article of Engagement so produced.

True Federalism that emphasizes Self-Determination.

A National Referendum can be conducted on the adoption of the final Constitution for the Restructured Nigeria around the middle of 2022.

The said Constitution can then become effective from October 01, 2022.

Adebanjo advocated also that a Committee can be set up to work out the details of the proposal hereby suggested.

“We are ready to present the details as we conceive it to the said Committee if formed.

“It is the belief of Afenifere that it will be unrealistic and unpatriotic in our present precarious disintegrating tendencies that Buhari government should contemplate holding any election before the proposed harmonious constitution becomes operative. “We believe there should be a country before an election is contemplated.

“Afenifere presents this proposal for the consideration of this dialogue; in the hope that its faithful implementation will save the country from disintegration and its citizen will henceforth live in peace and unity,” Adebanjo declared.

Adebanjo is just an ethnic bigot making baseless noise. He just gave his verdict but not fact, facts are what I quoted in my previous comments.
We know the so called group of people bragging of having large number of eee experts legal practitioners who always find their way to make laws that suit them.

In 1979, Obasanjo was head of state and he pioneered that constitution and it is very clear that the same constitution is a replica of 1999 constitution with 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.
Adebanjo should descend his energy on his kinsman rather than using ethno-religious excuses to display his bigotry.

paramakina202:
You think I will read that epistle of lies and deceit?
Until IPOB stop killing their own people they have nothing to offer.

“If you want to hide something from a Black person, put it in a book.


Malcolm X
If you're afraid of black nationalism, you're afraid of revolution. And if you love revolution, you love black nationalism. To understand this, you have to go back to what the young brother here referred to as the house Negro and the field Negro back during slavery. There were two kinds of slaves, the house Negro and the field Negro. The house Negroes — they lived in the house with master, they dressed pretty good, they ate good because they ate his food — what he left. They lived in the attic or the basement, but still they lived near the master; and they loved the master more than the master loved himself. They would give their life to save the master's house — quicker than the master would. If the master said, "We got a good house here," the house Negro would say, "Yeah, we got a good house here." Whenever the master said "we," he said "we." That's how you can tell a house Negro.
If the master's house caught on fire, the house Negro would fight harder to put the blaze out than the master would. If the master got sick, the house Negro would say, "What's the matter, boss, we sick?" We sick! He identified himself with his master, more than his master identified with himself. And if you came to the house Negro and said, "Let's run away, let's escape, let's separate," the house Negro would look at you and say, "Man, you crazy. What you mean, separate? Where is there a better house than this? Where can I wear better clothes than this? Where can I eat better food than this?" That was that house Negro. In those days he was called a "house nigger." And that's what we call them today, because we've still got some house niggers running around here.

LeoDeKing:
Simon Ekpa is greater than Nnamdi Kanu, Ikemba ojukwu, Nnamdi Azikiwe, Charles Soludo and Peter Obi combined.

Lol... Una don com again.