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Biafra: Allow referendum, 2014 Confab delegates, groups tell Buhari
Published December 3, 2016
President Muhammadu Buhari

Our correspondents

Some delegates of the 2014 National Conference, groups and human rights activists on Friday countered President Muhammadu Buhari’s stance on calls for the independence of Biafra and other secession agitations. They asked him to allow a referendum that would give agitators the chance to decide their fate on the matter.

There have been agitations by the Indigenous People of Biafra and some other groups to secede from Nigeria but the President has repeatedly described Nigeria’s unity as non-negotiable.

Also on Thursday, during a meeting with the South-East Council of Traditional Rulers at the Presidential Villa, the President reiterated his stance that Nigeria should remain united.

However, a delegate to the 2014 Confab and National Publicity Secretary of Afenifere, a pan-Yoruba group, Yinka Odumakin, berated the President’s stance on the issue, saying “there is basically nothing that is non-negotiable about Nigeria.”

Odumakin said, “At this stage, there must be a referendum in the South-East in line with the United Nations’ instrument on self-determination to determine if the people want a separate country or if they want to stay within Nigeria and on what terms. It is only a poor student of history that cannot see where all this will end if we fail to deal with it in a civilised manner.

“Soviet Union, with all its might, broke up in days without a gunshot being fired. Various countries sprouted from its ruins and are now fulfilling their manifest destiny. You cannot keep people in a forced marriage in this age of self-determination.”

Likewise, another 2014 Confab delegate, Prof. A.B.C. Nwosu, who said Nigeria was practising “fake federalism”, also called for a “referendum throughout Nigeria for us to decide on the decisions we took at the 2014 National Conference.”

“If there is a thorny issue that is likely to pull at the basic fabric of the nation and we want to determine it with a referendum, it is alright with me, that is democracy. I have nothing against referendum. And nobody is good enough to preside over a people without their consent,” Nwosu said.

In his view, one of the delegates at the last Confab, Dr. Junaid Mohammed, who called on Nigerians to learn to build the nation and not marginalise any region in the process, however, added that “in modern political life, everything is negotiable.”

Mohammed, who is also the Convener of the Coalition of Northern Politicians, Academics, Professionals and Businessmen, added, “So, I don’t believe in Buhari telling us that anything is not negotiable. You do not make a nation by enforcing your world view on the nation. There are over 186 million Nigerians today and it is a very bold or reckless man who will imagine that Nigerians can agree on a single concept of nationhood.”

According to the Publicity Secretary, Osun State Civil Society Coalition, Mr. Ismaeel Uthman, negotiating the unity of Nigeria will bring the needed peace in the country.

Uthman said, “Constitutionally, Nigeria’s unity is not negotiable. But by convention, Nigeria’s unity can be negotiated to create room for understandable cohabitation and peaceful coexistence to strengthen the country’s unity.

“Referendum is a globally recognised mechanism for secession, but our constitution does not support secession. But if a zone or region in Nigeria feels cheated or is not comfortable with the treatment it is receiving from the Federal Government, it is morally right to get the government and the international community to listen to it through a referendum.”

The National Secretary of Anioma Youth Forum, Mr. Bath Ozah, who spoke with one of our correspondents in Asaba, Delta State, said, “If the President wants the youth to stop the agitation for Biafra, he should treat all religions, social groups and states equally. But if he continues with his old method, there is no reason the unity of this country called Nigeria is not negotiable.”

The spokesman for the Edo State Civil Society Organisations, Osazee Edigin, said, “A referendum should be carried out as it has been done in Sudan and other countries of the world.”

A human rights activist based in Minna, Niger State, Chijoke Ike, said, “You cannot force a person or group of persons to belong where they don’t want to belong; they have the right of choice, according to the UN charter.”

According to Mohammed Dalami, another activist, the constitution of Nigeria gives every citizen the right to associate.

“The fight for sovereignty is through referendum. Referendum is the only tool in a civilised society to get sovereignty.

“Just recently, Britain pulled out of the European Union after a referendum. The same thing happened in South Sudan, so Nigeria cannot be an exception,” he said.

Also, human rights activists, Dagana Haske and Mr. Inibehe Effiong, said they did not believe in Nigeria breaking up, but faulted the approach being used by the President to deal with agitators.

“The Federal Government lacks the requisite constitutional enablement to convoke a referendum. The 1999 Constitution does not provide for a framework for holding a referendum. It will take a constitutional amendment for such a referendum to hold. But there is nothing wrong in holding a referendum,” Effiong said.

The Chairman, Ohaneze Ndigbo in Delta Central and South area of Delta State, Mr. Jude Chiedozie, said dissolution was not the answer to the many challenges confronting Nigeria as a country.

The Igbo leader, however, said “referendum is not a bad idea if our leaders are sincere. There is nothing wrong if we decide to discuss as a people.”

A member of the Ohana-Eze Ndigbo in Adamawa State, Chief Ofor Nwachukwu, who is the immediate past President of the Igbo Cultural Association in Adamawa, said the clamour for secession by some “people will continue until the Nigerian state is willing to be more accommodating.”

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junnyjake:
You inclusive.

YES NOW HE INCLUSIVE

GavelSlam:
How biafra by the way?

aND YOUR ZOO?? NKO

What a funny post.. by Afonja manipulators

All hail Biafrans

progress69:
Fellow Nairalanders,

I will love an honest person from the Igbo race to explain the sudden love and rooting for Hausa-Fulani candidate on the social media, in person of Alhaji Atiku.

I need this answer because the Yorubas were largely insulted and called derogatory names like Hausa Fulani slaves for supporting and rooting for the best candidate and corrupt free Buhari in 2015.

Many south easterners on the social media have also been trying to map out Edo state where i am from, away from the Niger Delta simply for supporting President's Buhari's ambition. They go as far as calling Edo state Yoruba extention.

Having said this, is it safe to say that politicians easilty play on emotions of Igbos on social media as we can see FFK, Reno, Fayose and the likes do on the social media. Non of them have actively sort the whereabouts of the outlawed joker Nnamdi Kanu the way they actively did when he was in detention.

In conclusion,

Contrary to the notion that Buhari hates the Igbos I think the case is the other way. Compound hatred was displayed both on the social media and on ground by a high percentage of Igbos during the runup and after the elections in 2015. Buhari is human and can give in to emotions too, knowing he is just being hated for no reason. This is evident in the not suprising Atikulate charlatans from the Eastern region who once abused others for suporting an Hausa Fulani President.

My candid advice to Igbos on the social media and the ones on ground being influeced by the lies and hate on the social media is that politics of hate and bitterness as well as ethnoreligious politics should be totally shunned for the future of the South East in Nigeria. The pipe dream of Biafra is not a reality for now, hence the need to tie hands with others for a brighter and better future for the south east.

sinkhole:
Pope is a Christian and he does not support Trump/Israel this time around, but African Muslims will soon start killing African Christians on what African Christians know next to nothing about

When Did Pope Francis tell you that he is not in support??

Jerusalem is Naturally the Capital of the Bible

A city surrounded by 7 hills

WHich IGBO ipob??

You must be joking

NO Election in Biafraland

Period

NO ELECTION IN BIAFRALAND

The Federal Government has said that the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, has written petition letters to many government outside Nigeria, telling them that Nigeria is a country where there is genocide and that Nigeria is a country where Muslims persecute Christians.
The Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, disclosed this on Tuesday when he appeared on a live TV programme “Good Morning Nigeria” on the Nigeria Television Authority (NTA).
The Minister also said that those countries IPOB has written to are known to the Federal Government of Nigeria and that some of them are the ones supporting and funding IPOB’s activities in Nigeria.
Alhaji Mohammed however said that most of the countries supporting the group were doing so based on ignorance.
He said the countries had been hoodwinked by IPOB into believing that “Nigeria is a country where Muslims persecute Christians” and a country where there is genocide.
“As we speak today, IPOB has written letters to many Governments outside Nigeria, international parliaments sending fake and cloned videos claiming there is genocide in Nigeria.
The minister charged the international community not to adopt double standard in dealing with IPOB and to be more diligent before making any pronouncements.
He said what the countries would never accept in their territories, should not be encouraged in Nigeria.
He said the federal government is equally taking steps to block all avenues through which IPOB gets its funding.
“Terrorists do not publish where their funding are coming from. But we know the countries that are supporting IPOB.
“We know the sources of their funding though I am not at liberty to disclose them here.
“We are taking steps to block them and we are also taking a lot of diplomatic actions in respect of the countries that are supporting them”
ME: IPOB zuru ka emee! We are resolute. They thought IPOB will just fold their hands and watch them kill all the Igbos? This is just the tip of the iceberg....There's no peace for the wicked. Lai, as your name is and sounds continue to lie to those helpless Nigerians who are listening to your lies.

where are the anti Biafrans in nairaland?

stop deceiving yourself afonja

long live biafra

WHY ASK JUST A QUESTION?/

IS BIAFRA FOR LIVE

BIAFRA CAN NEVER DIED

ALL HAIL BIAFRA

iJAW IS IN BIGHT OF BIAFRA NOT BIGHT OF BENIN

Jaideyone:
keep deluding yourself. I work with facts. Ibadan is bigger than awka, Onitsha and Owerri out togethee

YES , BUT IT 99% BROWN ROOF AND MUD HOUSES PLASTERED WITH CEMENT

And Buharia who reinstated Thief Maina is referred to by financial rogue Time as MR. INTEGRITY

zoedew:
Probably the reason why the Financial Times referred to Goodluck Jonathan as The Ineffectual Buffoon!

And Buharia who reinstated Thief Maina is referred to by financial rogue Time as MR. INTEGRITY

Ayoemrys:
Real Fraut, I Fear That Man,integrity My Foot,

Oil is at $63 p/b
What if our oil money is being moved to Arab Islamic bank without our knowledge./

NOBODY WILL BUY THOSE WORTHLESS

WHITE ELEPHANT things

Secession is not the problem but the solution to freedom

No freedom

No Prosperity

No Growth

No Advancement

How many Govts Outside SE & SS are patronizing INNOSON MOTORS

Ans: NONE

They are not the problem but the solution to freedom

No freedom

No Prosperity

No Growth

No Advancement

How many Govts Outside SE & SS are patronizing INNOSON MOTORS

Ans: NONE

So Be Wise

dreaming inexperience ill-informed youths

how can people Outside SE & SS vote for//

Better fight for Biafra

yes

all we want is a Biafran President

in Biafraland

divide the country you people wont hear until oil becomes useless

u people wont hear. that


the contraption cant work

there is hatred everywhere

nobody Govt outside SE & SS buys INNOSON vechicles

419 move

Biafra all the way

All hail biafrans

Exposed:FG is disappointed that despite agreeing to pay $800million to biafrans, they still boycotted election

The Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) Community Court sitting in Abuja has been asked by the Federal Government to sack an $800 million fundamental human rights enforcement suit instituted by the leader of the outlawed Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) Nnamdi Kanu.
The Federal Government argued that since Kanu had deserted his ongoing trial after he was granted bail by the Federal High Court in Abuja, any judgment by the ECOWAS Court on Kanu’s suit before it will no longer serve any purpose.
The IPOB leader had in his suit which was filed on March 3, 2016 before the ECOWAS court, demanded that the Federal Government pay him $800 million as compensation for his alleged unlawful arrest in 2015 and subsequent detention.

However, in an objection to the suit filed by the counsel to the Federal Government, Mrs. Maimuna Shiru, she contended that it was now purposeless for the ECOWAS Court to adjudicate on Kanu’s suit since the IPOB leader has allegedly jumped bail granted him on charges of treasonable felony along others before the Federal High Court in Abuja.
According to Mrs Shiru, Kanu’s alleged jumping of bail means that events had overtaken his $800 million suit.

“Having regards to Article 88(2) of the Rules of the Community Court of Justice, ECOWAS, this suit has become devoid of purpose and unnecessary to adjudicate upon.
“The result of a judicial decision in this suit will serve no purpose. There are no live issues in controversy between the parties for the court to determine,” the three grounds of the application noted.
In an affidavit filed in support of the Federal Government’s motion and deposed to by Mr. Thomas Etah, it stated that Kanu filed his notice of registration before the ECOWAS Court on March 3, 2016, while the plaintiff was granted bail by the Federal High Court on April 25.
“That the plaintiff/respondent has now jumped bail and his whereabouts are unknown.
“That further to paragraph 8 above, it is public knowledge that the Federal High Court of Nigeria has ordered Senator Eyinnaya Abaribe and two other sureties to produce the plaintiff/respondent or forfeit their bail bonds.
“That the plaintiff/respondent and the group he represents, the Indigenous People of Biafra have been proscribed as a terrorist organisation by the defendant/applicant (Federal Government).

SAHARA REPORTERS

ATIKU 26%

bUHARI 49%

NONE OF THE ABOVE(IPOB) 25%

SINCE BIAFRAN MAKE UP 30% OF THE POPULATION..

THEY STILL INSIST ON NO REFERENDUM NO ELECTION

sarrki:
Leave them they will be shocked to the Bone

No politician ,I repeat No politician can win Pmb right now

YOUR IGNORANCE WILL ALSO CONTINUE