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Dear Amaka,

Thank you for your feedback. You have two people to blame for Nigeria's indissolubility.

Chief Obafemi Awolowo mooted the idea of a secession clause in 1954 during the Lagos Constitutional Conference, but Nnamdi Azikiwe rejected it, galvanising a majority of the conference attendees to kill the idea.

After this was rejected, Chief Awolowo again wrote to the then Governor General of Nigeria, who rejected the clause because the majority, led by Nnamdi Azikiwe, did not support it.

A year before Awolowo tried to get a secession clause into the Constitution, Nnamdi Azikiwe had threatened Northern Nigeria with war if they tried to secede from Nigeria at a speech he gave on Monday, May 12, 1953. Please find below a quote from that speech:

"It may lead to economic nationalism in the Eastern Region, which can pursue a policy of blockade of the North, by refusing it access to the sea, over and under the River Niger, except upon payment of tolls."

Because of Nnamdi Azikiwe, section 86 was inserted into our constitution with the proviso that if any region should secede, it would be an act of treason.

Just a year before Biafra tried to break away from Nigeria on Tuesday, May 30, 1967, Isaac Boro tried secession by declaring the Niger Delta Republic on February 23, 1966.

Please fact-check me: Colonel Ojukwu first sent troops to quash Boro's rebellion. When he could not overwhelm Boro's Niger Delta Volunteer Force, he requested for federal troops, and Major General Aguiyi-Ironsi granted his request and sent soldiers to Ijaw land on February 27, 1966, following which Boro was captured and sentenced.

The then Head of State, Major General Johnson Aguiyi-Ironsi, quashed what he called the Isaac Boro mutiny using primarily troops of Eastern Nigeria origin.

So if Ojukwu and Ironsi did that to the Ijaws, how then would you want the Gowon administration and future governments to let Eastern/Southeast Nigeria secede?

That set the precedent for indissolubility under the military.

Therefore, Amaka, if you are looking for anyone to blame, please turn your attention to Azikiwe and Ironsi.

Thanks again, and may God bless you.

Reno Omokri

Goodvibes007:
Reno Omokri is a walking encyclopedia. The man knows Nigerian history like the back of his palm.

Skeyskey:
Reno this is September and schools has resumed. Please try and pay your children's school fees and look after them. Thank you.

Goodvibes007:
Reno Omokri is a walking encyclopedia. The man knows Nigerian history like the back of his palm.

Goodvibes007:
Reno Omokri is a walking encyclopedia. The man knows Nigerian history like the back of his palm.

madridguy:
Chief Obafemi Awolowo mooted the idea of a secession clause in 1954 during the Lagos Constitutional Conference, but Nnamdi Azikiwe rejected it, galvanising a majority of the conference attendees to kill the idea.

madridguy:
Chief Obafemi Awolowo mooted the idea of a secession clause in 1954 during the Lagos Constitutional Conference, but Nnamdi Azikiwe rejected it, galvanising a majority of the conference attendees to kill the idea.

phorget:
Constitutions could be amended if need be, Nigeria has always amended her constitution from time immemorial but somehow this succession constitution seems unamendable.
But when Tilumbu wanted to change the national anthem it took him less than 2weeks to get the anthem changed...

Reno is just a lost cow.

YoshiMaster:
I never knew a day would come where this guy would become so irritating to me, like mucus

Pompoma:
Reno Omokri abandoned his legally married wife and children, including twin boys, for another woman whom he impregnated out of wedlock.

YoshiMaster:
I wonder who would want to associate with him in real life.

Ewuoooo:
This man should leave social media and attend to his son in need. My prayer goes to his abandoned family.

Softmirror:
Like Peter Obi and his supporters are like Reno 's Ex wife both were once embraced by Reno until he dumped them. And the usual reaction of 'EX' which is of BITTERNESS and HATRED for being dumbed must manifest after a broken relationship. Lol 😂.

YoshiMaster:
Changed the anthem in like 24 hours ooo, bruv

They keep acting like systems can't be changed.

That's why they hate to hear anything BVAS or IREV

phorget:
Constitutions could be amended if need be, Nigeria has always amended her constitution from time immemorial but somehow this succession constitution seems unamendable.
But when Tilumbu wanted to change the national anthem it took him less than 2weeks to get the anthem changed...

Reno is just a lost cow.

Skeyskey:
Reno this is September and schools has resumed. Please try and pay your children's school fees and look after them. Thank you.

WizardOfNG:
Reno is a "lost Cow" ba? This is the innate irresponsibility and penchant for playing victim of you guys, that makes you incapable of confronting the truth and then lands you in trouble always.

If you argue the constitution be changed to facilitate secession clause, why not start by charging your legislators to push the effort from the NASS and HOR? Why talk as if Yorubas or others should be arrowheads of your secession attempts rather than you own political and legislative leaders?

If you people respect facts and Nigerian reality you'd know the composition of our lawmakers to understand the North, that will never support secession, has the majority and will naturally thwart any attempt to amend the constitution to grant balkanisation of Nigeria.

You lot know the above yet you will continue barking "they won't let us go" at Yorubas daily when they do not care whether you leave Nigeria or not.

Comical how non of you ever wonder why IPOB Senator Abaribe never moved the secession motion publicly at the NASS yet, privately and in your town hall meetings, he gingers you all about Biafra regularly.

Yet I don't expect incisive reasoning or different talk, from what you submit here insulting Omokri, from a people too emotional to deal with facts and reality of Nigeria as normal folks can.

helinues:
Bro imagine that guy derailing this thread deliberately. He has made use of nothing less than 4 monikers on this thread alone . That's how they do whenever any history story is not favouring them

Ewuoooo
Pompoma
Skeyskey
Desazubu

Pompoma:
Reno Omokri is a well known liar. Don't believe anything he says.

Softmirror:
Like Peter Obi and his supporters are like Reno 's Ex wife both were once embraced by Reno until he dumped them. And the usual reaction of 'EX' which is of BITTERNESS and HATRED for being dumbed must manifest after a broken relationship. Lol 😂.