According to an important Igbo adage, if a child is crying and pointing at a particular direction, you can be sure that if his mother is not there his father is there. That action of the child is, therefore, a dependable indicator with which something invaluably valuable can be found for him. Nigerians are crying and pointing in the direction of Restructuring. Crying because we are badly hurting in a systemic bondage where aridity and ineffectuality greet our every hard effort, because all efforts are exerted in a system that is on a blighted template. Pointing, it seems we are doing, at the direction we believe our salvation dwells and waiting for us to arrive. But we have to diligently find our way, to get there. We require we appropriate knowledge, ardent desire and requisite diligence. Any of these should not be found missing.
The
Present Situation
We are presently in a quicksand we stepped into and
which has been steadily sinking beneath our feet portending mortal danger.
What is settled, and not negotiable, is Nigeria not
continuing as a quasi federation, being called “Federal Government of Nigeria”
whereas it is, practically, a “Unitary Government of Nigeria”. A unitary
government is defined as “characterized by or constituting a form of government
in which power is held by one central authority” (WordWeb). This is what
Nigeria is now and the greatest danger in this system is that all the units go
to the centre to share a common wealth. There has to be a formula for the
sharing and it can never be satisfactory to all in such a heterogeneously
constituted and configured country like Nigeria – different sizes, different
ethnicities different cultures, different religions, different attitudes
different needs – heavily bedeviled by unwholesome, systematically injected systemic sentiments. There will be unending
conflicts that will keep on creating animosity between the units, and
encouraging the deadly quest for the control of the unduly attractive centre
that cannot run away from nepotism.
The injustice in the Nigerian situation is that the
wealth being shared is generated virtually solely by the Niger Delta with a
little contribution by a few other viable states and virtually nil contribution
by majority of the states, as they are, incidentally, non-viable. No state can
be non-viable in a Nigeria that is a true federation because the states have no
choice but work hard to prosper, are motivated on discovering the great
potentials really available for them and are encouraged to do very much for
themselves and pay commensurate tax to the center for taking care of its fewer,
but essential and national, responsibilities.
Nobody quarrels as a result of central revenue-sharing
in a Federation because there is none, and the federating units get on well in
a healthy, strong competition as they work hard to create resources and have
the right to control and harness their units’ natural resources. Every part of
Nigeria is richly endowed with natural resources and strong hard-working people
who are, however, not empowered and not encouraged to be reasonably productive.
Today, natural resources are not tapped, agriculture and industry are badly
neglected as all units scramble for, and quarrel over, oil revenue derived from
the Niger Delta which, most unjustly, suffers terrible environmental
devastation and shameful infrastructure deprivation.
Marginalization seems to be unavoidable in the present
unitary system of government in Nigeria that is prone to foul manipulations,
nepotism and other forms of corruption.
There are other biting issues that make life difficult
for us in the present Nigerian set up and can be easily avoided if Nigeria is
restructured into a true federation where the federating units are developing
without being tied to the dependence on a Center, and so are not affected by
the demeanor of that Center, good or bad, towards any of them.
How
We Got Here
The
way we got into this situation is reflective of the nature of it. It happened
right from the inception of this country, way before Independence and even
before the time of amalgamation of Southern and Northern Protectorates, in
1914, to form a federation called Nigeria.
At
amalgamation, the Eastern part of Nigeria brought along their republican,
adventurous, progressive nature, their love for Western life and Western
education and aptitude for industry, commerce, community development and
communal self-help. The Western part brought with it zeal, organization,
creativity, love for Western education, selflessness, superb tradition and
culture with constructively-styled monarchy. The Northern Part brought with it
the predominantly “Far North” agenda of an advanced administrative system, zeal
for Islamic religion and Islamic education and the relegation of Western
education, great energy and productivity of the people in agriculture including
a gigantic animal industry, crafts and sundry artisanship, a highly developed
monarchical system that predominantly consists of Emirates and run by Emirs as
oligarchies that are essentially hegemonic. This hegemony is the source of the
mystery water that entered the flute of the pumpkin.
The
relegation of education drastically set the North back educationally and their
emphasis on Islamic education produced the Almajiri system that has produced
monumental deprivation that is the lot of the majority of citizens in the
North. The South advanced in all spheres of life and occupied most federally
available posts and even most of the regionally-available posts in the North
were occupied by Southerners, especially the Easterners, to the envy and
hostility of Northern leaders for a problem they created themselves by
relegating Western education and promoting Islamic education the wrong way: why
make it look as if Western education has innate evil or incompatible with
Islam? Who says one cannot be an ardent Moslem and be highly Western-educated?
The
Northern leaders themselves acquired Western education and their elites mostly sent their children overseas
to acquire same Western education and come back to use this as a tool to further their drastic hegemony that made their
people look up to them as divinely ordained controllers whose words were law
unto their lives and whose commands must be obeyed without question, a frame of
mind they got into as a result of lack of education. They could easily be
programmed, indoctrinated and radicalized according to the whims of these
elites. A situation like this could not happen in the South where everything
was interrogated.
There exists a terribly evil cabal in
Nigeria which originated from the ranks of those Northern elites. They are
responsible for most of the atrocious activities happening in Nigeria. There
are succeeding generations of this Cabal and they have kept on transmitting
their legacy and agenda down these generations. Some of them are highly-placed
learned people, who were said to have met and got inducted at some exalted institutions
overseas, where they acquired very high quality education. They are in charge.
Ahmadu Bello was the champion of a Realistic Northern Wisdom. That wisdom was responsible for the
superb form of government Nigeria had at Independence in 1960 – True
Federalism. That wisdom was also responsible for breaking the power of the
Cabal that impoverished and educationally deprived northern people over the years.
Ahmadu Bello paid heavy attention to the education of Northerners and produced
lots of educated Northerners who took over the positions he created with the
Northernization Agenda he started and continued until he died. Then, the
faceless but powerful and evilly clever Cabal took over again and continued the
marginalization, impoverishment and educational deprivation of Northern youths
and children till today.
“- - - in 1952 when I came here, there weren’t 10
northerners in our civil service here…and I tried to have it northernized
and now all important posts are being held by northerners”. the Sardauna had said in an interview with a
white man1. Those posts were later being held, not by uneducated
Northerners but by suitably qualified educated ones.
That Realistic Northern wisdom was responsible for the
true federalism of the first republic. When Chief Anthony Enahoro moved a
motion in the House of Representatives in 1953 for Nigeria to become
Independent in 1956, and it was opposed by Northern members by a counter motion
from Ahmadu Bello, substituting “in 1956” with “as soon as practicable”, the
fall out was the Kano riots of 1953 when Akintola and his group came to Kano
for negotiations, a reprisal for the insults the Northern representatives
received from Lagos public after that meeting of the House of Representatives.
After this crisis that followed, Ahmadu Bello’s Northern Peoples’ Congress issued
an “Eight Point Programme” as a condition for the North not to secede from
Nigeria:
(1)
That each region shall have complete Legislative and Executive Autonomy with
respect to all matters except the following: External Affairs, Defense, Customs
and West African Research Institutions;
(2)
That there should be no Central Legislative body and no Central Executive or
policy making body for the whole of Nigeria;
(3)
That there shall be Central Agency for all regions which will be responsible
for matters mentioned in paragraph (1) and other matters delegated to it by a
Region;
(4)
That the Central Agency shall be a neutral place preferably Lagos;
(5)
That the composition and responsibility of the Central Agency shall be defined
by the Order-in-Council establishing the constitutional arrangements. The
agency shall be a non-political body.
(6)
That the services of railway, air, posts and telegraphs, electricity
and coal mining, shall be organized on an inter-regional basis and shall be
administered by public corporations. These corporations shall be independent and
covered by the statutes under which they are created by the board of experts
with a minority representation of the regional governments;
(7)
All the revenues shall be levied and collected by the regional government
except Customs revenue at the port of discharge by the Central Agency and paid
to its treasury;
(8)
The administration of the Customs shall be so organized so as to assure that
goods consigned to the region are separately cleared and charged to duty. Each region
shall have a separate public service.
These are the very tenets of True Federalism, the
other regions adopted all of it, and it worked very well. But it was jettisoned
when the Army took over in 1966.
The infamous Cabal, which had already entrenched
itself as a deadly Spoiler Virus, maneuvered itself to begin to call the shots
and would, subsequently, be responsible for Nigeria never getting it right in
governance in spite of her plethora of
exceptionally gifted first-class brains and a variety of very valuable
natural resources, Nigeria being perennially on edge, Nigerian citizens ever helplessly
going through the very disheartening disappointments due to the geometrically
progressing decadence in all spheres of life, and recurring decimals of
systemic failures, Nigerians finding it difficult to achieve at home but
shinning like a million stars in other climes and contributing enormously to
progress in their host lands. The Cabal and their cronies are not letting go,
in spite of the glaring evidence, for they (and only they) are benefitting from
the rot.
They started by introducing a unitary of system of
government to help them rule through the Army. They floated a blame that
persists today, that the unitary government was introduced by Aguiyi Ironsi,
the first military head of state; but the fact is that Ironsi left the autonomy
of the regions and the other aspects of federalism the way they were only that
the regions were governed, in the interim, by appointed Military Governors and
the center by the Supreme Military Council. The unitary system of government
started when Yakubu Gowon through whom they were running the country, created
12 dependent states from the 4 autonomous regions. .
They continue to work against return to true
federalism till today, frustrating this beautiful product of a Realistic
Northern wisdom which Ahmadu Bello championed, which is at variance with the
present Cabal-controlled invalid Northern wisdom of senseless solidarity that
profits no part, not even the North.
It seems, however, that the Cabal was able to
positively manipulate Ahmadu Bello into a jihadist stance on top of his
hegemonic character, probably by playing on his ego and on the fact of the
nature of his ancestry which is the connection to a great successful jihadist
Uthman dan Fodio. They are so powerful and clever that they easily get even
very educated and highly respectable northerners to fall in line with their
views and go on to propagate and defend those views as their own. The magic
seems to lie in linking such views to a “defense of the North” attitude in the
“defending the maligned and derided North” mentality which many of these
enlightened Northerners buy into, in the spirit of an unalloyed Northern
solidarity they believe they are called to.
Anyone in Nigeria who is not supportive of Restructuring
is, probably, linked to the Cabal either directly or remotely or inadvertently,
perhaps. A proof of this assertion of successful manipulation of the Northern
intelligentsia by this Cabal is found in the following facts:
Many distinguished Northerners who participated very
articulately in the 2014 National Conference and were party to all the
decisions taken were evidently made to turn back 180 degrees to oppose their
own marvelous handiwork, perhaps unknown to them that they were being led by
the nose by the Cabal.
APC manifesto
was also supportive of these decisions, but when APC won the Presidential
elections in 2015 and took over the government, the elite cabal took over the
control of governance to the chagrin of even the First Lady, Aisha Buhari, who
spoke out publicly and the unsavory drama followed in which the President said
her place was “in the kitchen, the living room and the other room”. APC also
turned 180 degrees against its own manifesto thanks to the Cabal-controlled
Presidency.
Other Northern elites and leaders quickly joined the
Presidency to campaign against Restructuring without knowing why they did so
except, perhaps, that the opposition to Restructuring had been made a Northern
agenda by the Cabal and Northern solidarity must be observed. Why do they not
know they are stabbing themselves on the feet by backing this view that
benefits only a very minute number of Northerners to the disadvantage of
millions of other Northerners?
No tangible argument was heard from them. Their
tutored response to the question of Restructuring back into True Federalism is
that “Restructuring means different things to different people” and this is
usually followed by a rigmarole discourse from them.
There was an argument which seems to have been put
into their mouth by some other Nigerians, which is that they felt the North was
not ready. The north is even readier than other parts, having more untapped
resources and having benefitted more than other parts in the location of
requisite infrastructure such as dams and irrigation facilities, and would
develop a great economy in many spheres, in a restructured Nigeria, even more
than it was in the 1960’s.
Happily, increasing number of Northern elites are
recognizing and condemning the activities of the Cabal and increasingly
Northern elites are supporting, and even championing, the Restructuring agenda.
Who
Benefits from a Unitary Government?
The Cabal rejected the 2014 National Conference and
the Call for Restructuring, without ever saying what it had against any of the
principles in Restructuring.
The only persons who benefit from a unitary system of
government where wealth, power and authority are in one source, are the
self-centered and selfish, despotic, evil men who do not have the interest of
anybody at heart. Being very powerful, they easily position themselves at the
door of the store of the common wealth, help themselves to their fill and
manipulate the flow the way they please, which often sees wealth, power and
authority distributed in a provocatively inequitable manner, causing chaos and
conflicts in which environment they thrive in their art. True federalism
bye-passes such persons as wealth, power and authority thus reside in the units
on which The Center rather depends. The Centre is significantly rendered
unattractive, stemming the murderous desires and moves to acquire and control
power at the center and the attendant serious consequences.
The reason this restructuring to true federalism will
not be allowed by the elite cabal is their firm resolve to run Nigeria as a
hegemonic oligarchy to further their born-to-rule doctrine and their
determination to prevent the Resource Control component of federalism from
dispossessing them of whatever they improperly acquired through direct central
control of every part of the Nigeria they are in charge of running in their own
way. They seem to be irreversibly committed to that agenda voiced out by Ahmadu
Bello, that “Nigeria is a plantation bequeathed to the Fulani by Allah and that
the Fulani will milk it until it dies”2. The plantation will not be
in their direct control, for them to continue milking, if Nigeria is
restructured into a true federation.
There is a very loud desire in many parts of Nigeria
for self-realization and self-determination. Unfortunately this consciousness
is being awakened and fueled by the badly frustrating years of misrule sadly
occasioned by ineptitude, nepotism, manipulative marginalization of parts and
oligarchic hegemony that seems to be benefitting the dubious few.
True
Federalism
Very many people innocently champion the error that Nigeria would fare better as one nation where ethnic, tribal, religious, regional and other differences should never be acknowledged or recognized. They envision a Nigeria that is a homogenous nation in every sense. You may begin to be able to figure out the error in this envisioning when you pit it against wisdom derivable from some quotes of three founding fathers of Nigeria frequently used over many years. This Day newspaper brought them together in a statement saying that sometime in colonial Nigeria, Dr. Nnamdi Azikiwe said to Sir Ahmadu Bello: “Let us forget our differences…” and Ahmadu Bello replied: “No, let us understand our differences. I am a Muslim and a Northerner. You are a Christian, an Easterner. By understanding our differences, we can build unity in our country.” Chief Obafemi Awolowo wrote that: “…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 fact is that Nigeria is a very diverse, multi-nation, multi-ethnic, multi-tribal, multi-lingual, multi-religious, multi-cultural country and a unitary government, which is best suited for a country that is a true nation, is in force in Nigeria. The type of government that is suitable for Nigeria, supportive of the nature of Nigeria, is True Federalism. True Federalism recognizes the individuality and the uniqueness of each federating unit and forges a unity in diversity that is always renegotiable, always open to progressive interrogation and more stable than any other type of government for our own type of amalgamated conglomeration. This special conglomeration has created a unique authentic identity that is amazing. It is graphically narrated in one of my books3:
The authentic Nigerian Identity is like a stunning image availed through the instrumentality of a superb, properly functioning kaleidoscope. Colourful entities link with each other, sharing their individual colours in their different layers of interaction as they move towards the center to make vital contributions to it.
Kaleidoscope
http://kaleidoscope.love/
The
co-operating spheres maintain their splendor, in shape and colour, link up with
each other and enter into a network of relationships with each other, sharing
colours and shapes, producing more different colours and more different shapes
as they happily converge to contribute commensurate percentages of their
properties to the center which equitably radiates gratitude to the federating
units at the periphery.
The properties of each unit are unique to it but
interactions produce a complex mix that is a beautiful eye-catching whole
pattern. The more you look, the less you see differences and the more you
discover beauty.
https://www.britannica.com/technology/kaleidoscope
The
splendor converges to the central focus and is regularly and radially reflected
back to the sources.
You are actually seeing goodness moving round and
round in a broadening gyre that shall have no end.
http://www.nebhe.org/wcontent/uploads/colorkaleidoscope.jpg
Who would not want to be part of this exquisite beauty,
and who would not want to identify with this unity in diversity? There is this
esthetic dazzle that, though easy to behold, is really not easily explicable.
The endowments are unique, severally and also jointly in the mosaic. Shouting
out glaringly are the charming colours but together they do not run riot.
Principalities and powers ponder and wonder – not many dominions possess such
natural attractiveness and obvious prosperity. There is a palpable display of
great might, perhaps vigour, and potency, all in an unfathomable resplendency
also encompassed in a kaleidoscopic complexity that is a simple beauty.
The more diligently it is dispassionately studied, the
more is exposed, greater diversity, yet much greater unity, more beauty,
visible strength and stability:
https://011art.deviantart.com/art/Psychedelia-38755188
The
fact, however, is that this ideal can only be as depicted if the kaleidoscopic
view is not from a faulty instrument or a sick eye, in which cases the image is
still the same but the viewer’s perception is distorted due either to the false
image served him by a spoilt instrument or by what he sees with his faulty eyes.
Faulty instrument and sick eye: what can become responsible for any of such
situations?
All the diverse ethnic nationalities beamed in their
real identities on a Nigeria screen would surely present a breath-taking
kaleidoscopic beauty, all things being equal. How this would look like can
begin to be appreciated by recalling any of the national Art and Culture
festivals and noticing the endless run of assorted captivating displays showing
a country blessed with a rich diversity that happens to be the source of beauty
and strength.
There is a great effect on the population, by their
football team of highly-skilled footballers meritoriously selected, as in our
national team, and containing diverse names such as Ekong, Obi, Etebor,
Abdulahi, Balogun, Musa, Iheanacho, Onazi, Idowu, Simon, Ighalo, Agu, Sadiq,
Iwobi, Akpeyi, etc., instead of being given nameless identities such as A6, C4,
Y9 K5, etc., perhaps in a bid to play down their ethnic identities. When Musa
scores a goal, Emeka, Kayode, Asuquo, Efosa, Onoja and the rest of Nigerians
rejoice from the heart. What they do is work very hard individually, then
collectively, to win for Nigeria.
The Senate of Nigeria can portray this Kaleidoscopic
splendor, most accurately, having equal representations from every state.
Imagine a senate meeting where all senators are present, all adorned with the
regalia native to their respective ethnic origins, speaking with their native
accents and mannerisms but speaking in the same English language and with one
purpose of ensuring equity, probity and good governance in Nigeria although
they might be coming from different angles, their views having different
personal, regional and ideological colourations.
Modified from “Global Culture a Case Study of Nigeria”
https://www.slideshare.net/Raufu/global-culture-a-case-study-of-nigeria
True Federalism
has such a flavour and even better. Naming of the federating units must be
given the most intelligent consideration. The units should be encouraged to choose
names they are proud of, and to which they have sentimental attachment to, such
as the famous ancient names of their famous homelands that are now involved in
this Nigeria federation. Some of these names are involved in agitations for
self-determination and may not seem suitable to the undiscerning many. The
truth is that this is actually going to be rather a panacea because they
participate as autonomous units in a true federation where the conditions that
prompted their agitations cannot exist. In a truly federal Nigeria they are
practically countries of their own and still part of a big country, Nigeria,
instead of much smaller standalone countries they had envisaged to get with
secession – double advantage for everyone. I daresay that what most of our
people want is to be part of the kaleidoscopic beauty that is the diverse but
united, strong, equitable Nigeria Federation as autonomous federating units.
Let the federating units
in a true federalism in Nigeria be identified by West Biafra, Edo, Oduduwa,
Kebbi, Zamfara, Bornu, and the like, which are reminiscent of our past
great States worth being identified with, and related to rich histories which
must be preserved. A standard set-up would be a four or five
regional outcome. Already decided are West Biafra and Oodua, Arewa could be
ready too and middle Belt will duly follow. Edo and Delta may become part of
Oodua, Edo alone may become, Delta may want to join West Biafra or Oodua that
includes Edo, Edo and Delta may stay together under a good name such as Bendel,
which we all love the sound of and which a lot of sentiment is still attached
by people of the area. The states, as we have them now, are better retained in
the various regions as federating units of the regions which are the direct
federating units of Nigeria. West Biafra,
for instance, contains nine federating units.
Modified from connectnigeria.com. Delta & Edo for a later decision. .
I am from West Biafra. We are Biafrans of
Nigeria. Our geopolitical region is, specifically, West Biafra. It is like naming
some of the autonomous regions (states) in the USA, as North Dakota, West
Virginia, North Carolina and South Carolina, and the reason some countries are
known as EastTimor and South Sudan. All these names are full of history. I
believe the country we founded in 1967 and lost in 1970 should have been more
correctly named West Biafra as we share the Biafra name with three other
countries - Cameroon (Central Biafra), Gabon (South Biafra) and Equatorial
Guinea (Equatorial Biafra).
What Nigeria needs is a True Comprehensive Federalism.
True Comprehensive Federalism means that each of the regions shall remain
autonomous and federate to form a union as a platform for greater economic
growth, socio-cultural advancement and political positioning that will give Nigeria
a most enviable place in the comity of nations. It is the most workable form of
government and the easiest to run, with the least of conflicts, in such a
complex diversity like ours and is also recommended for the individual states
in the regions and their components, the Local Governments, down to the least
unit – the communities.
For example, West Biafra will be a true federation
consisting of several states therein as federating units. These are Abia,
Akwa-Ibom, Anambra, Bayelsa, Cross-River, Ebonyi, Enugu, Imo and Rivers. Each
state in West Biafra, big or small, will control its resources, work hard,
blossom and contribute proportionately according to size and according to
resources controlled and harnessed beneficially (in other words, according to
the size of their internally generated revenue), to West Biafra, which will in
turn contribute commensurately to the Nigeria Federation. This model is what is expected to be put in
place in all the constituent states in the regions all over Nigeria. The states
in each of the federating geopolitical regions will also have their constituent
units, the Local Government Areas also federating into such a state, and
communities federating into the Local Government Areas in a similar fashion.
A
Word on Resource Control
It is an open secret that the Resource Control
component of Restructuring is the major cause of difficulty. Those who own the
goose that lays the golden eggs want to own the golden eggs as well. That is
right and just. The controllers of the goose, the golden eggs and the owner, having
enjoyed the exploitation for these many years, cannot stomach the idea of relinquishing
their stranglehold and manipulation especially as that would amount to losing
unhindered access to very huge, practically unlimited, source of wealth which
they had cornered to themselves. That is wrong and unjust.
Another reality is that some people who do not really
understand true federalism believe that Resource Control by a federating unit
will result in federal government receiving just a small percentage of the derived
wealth which may not be enough for its enormous duties. The assumption here is
that the “the bigger federal government has bigger duties” and would also need
enough money to share among the states, and therefore needs a larger share, if
not all, of the resource-derived revenue. In federalism states give to the
Center instead and the states do most of the works now being handled by the
Center. These are supposed to be done more efficiently by the federating units
as they are closer to the people and understand their needs better in nature,
extent and location. The greater percentage of the internally generated revenue
(IGR) is therefore retained in the states for greater works and so no one loses.
It is simple: if a federating unit, for instance,
keeps 70% of its IGR of N1000 and it is derived mainly from petroleum, which it
is controlling, the total amount left for it for works is N700 because there is
no allocation from the Center which gets N300 for its works that are now 30% of
all the works while the state does 70% of all the works. In the present unitary
government The Center keeps 70% and does 70% of the works – inefficiently, because
it is very far from the people. In actual fact, this federating unit which now
retains 70% of its IGR does not have that much excess to keep, as people
imagine, because it now keeps 70% of the works to match. The beauty of this
arrangement is that both government and the resources now reside very close to
the people, to readily and more accurately touch their lives.
Simple
and True
Federalism has been classified in numerous ways and
discussed under a variety of headings but a careful analysis justifies a
classification into only two aspects – geopolitical
federalism and fiscal federalism. All other descriptions are so associated
with these two that they can all fit into either of them. For instance, many of
the canvassed items such as State Police, autonomous State Judicial System with
a state Supreme Court, state constitutions, Devolution of Power and similar
items, predicate their relevance and success on geopolitical federalism where
the federating units are autonomous and are like bona fide nations or countries
although linked to a federation. Fiscal federalism follows geopolitical
federalism because such a true federal arrangement necessarily requires a
corresponding fiscal architecture.
Restructuring into True Federalism is not complicated at all as some people would want us to think. If a well-crafted executive bill is sent to the national assembly for a constitutional amendment in line with these thoughts and passed to enable the institutionalization of these ideals, machinery can be set in motion for their immediate realization. Some executive orders can be issued to facilitate the process, as already hinted by Atiku Abubakar in his presidential campaigns.
Many insist that a new constitution needs to be put in place before the process can take place. This is not necessarily true. What is needed is amendment of the present constitution as is currently being done and including expunging of the first part of the First Schedule which enumerates the states of the federation and the Local Government Areas in each of them, and replacing it with a provision for five regions that retain the states and LGAs in them, with the proviso that each of the regions reserves the authority to create and manage states and LGAs, since any number of them will no more count as a leverage for getting a bigger federal allocation, as central revenue sharing will no more exist. A sovereign constitutional conference can then be called to replace the fraudulent 1999 constitution.
It only requires political will with which it can fully materialize in a matter of a few months since Restructuring is actually widely desired, settled and non-negotiable – YES, A FEW MONTHS.
REFERENCES
1. Brimah P., Surprising Truth: Ahmadu Bello Sardauna Was Correct In Northernisation Agenda, Every Nigerian Do Something [ENDS], http://ends.ng/surprising-truth-ahmadu-bello-sardauna-was-correct-in-northernisation-agenda/
2. Lower Niger Congress USA, Continuation of UthmanDan Fodio’s Jihad: Conquering the Middle Belt & the South, http://www.lnc-usa.org/blog/separate-from-nigeria-now-or-die-as-slaves-in-it-biafra-foundation/
3. Nweze C. C., BIafra Our Default Homeland, Lulu Publishing Company. https://baifraourdefaulthomeland.blogspot.com/2021/04/biafra-our-default-homeland-book-blog.html?m=1 pageSize
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