… Want PMB to consider 2014 Confab report
By Olakunle Olafioye
Senators of southern extraction have added their voices to the call for the restructuring of Nigeria.
The call was contained in a communiqué released at the end of a three- day retreat organized by Southern Senators Forum in Calabar, capital of Cross Rivers State.
The lawmakers also called on President Muhammed Buahri to convey a conference of stakeholders in the country with a view to consider the report of the 2014 National Conference.
The communiqué, which was read by the chairman of the forum, senator Hope Uzodinma, also charged lawmakers in the National Assembly to initiate a full scale debate on the 2014 National Conference report.
The forum noted that the stakeholders meeting would help to look at the recommendations of the committee and offer direction to the federal government on the way forward for the country.
Senate President, Bukola Saraki had during his remark at the opening of the retreat said that if Nigeria must allow peace and unity thrives, she must achieve the expected development, stability and greatness.
According to him, “we must always put Nigeria first” in the ongoing debate about restructuring of the country and other similar agitations.
“As a nation, unity is a prerequisite for development, stability and greatness. Unity is the first focus. Without unity, we can achieve nothing. And yet we know that, since the end of the Nigerian Civil War, our unity has never been more challenged than at the present time.
“There are agitations across the length and breadth of this country that threaten our unity. And this time around, the threats are multi-faceted, and the vegaries of modern times have made the issues even more challenging than in the early post-independence era.”
“In seeking to carry out any reform or restructuring, it is worth bearing in mind that the founders of our country, in their wisdom, had laid down some guidelines, making clear that it cannot be done by a simple majority, but rather by a two-thirds majority.
“To this end, we must all be on the same page. We cannot bully or browbeat others into accepting our point of view or positioning. Whatever we do must be by consensus, with the buy-in of all critical stakeholders in the debate.”
In a keynote address, Deputy Senate President, Ike Ekweremadu said that there was an urgent need for restructuring, stressing that if the call for restructuring of Nigeria must be achieved in all its ramifications, there must be patience, more enlightenment and dialogue, just as he blamed misconception and ethno-sectional suspicions for the opposition to the idea.
Ekweremadu called on proponents of restructuring to leverage on the influence of prominent northerners, such as former military President, General Ibrahim Babangida (rtd); former Vice President, Alhaji Atiku Abubabar; and President of the Senate, Senator Bukola Saraki, who believe in restructuring, to win more converts in the north.
The Deputy Senate President who suggested a piecemeal approach to restructuring, said that people would gradually drop their fear and crave for more restructuring as they begin to reap the gains of each successful restructuring effort.
Other speakers at the retreat including the Bishop of Sokoto, Mathew Hassan Kukah, a former Minister of Foreign Affairs, Senator Ike Nwachukwu, and the Publicity Secretary of Afenifere, Yoruba apex socio cultural body, Yinka Odumakin said that those opposed to such change are the real enemies of the country.
While the Bishop of Sokoto insisted that efforts must be made to restore our value system, make every Nigerian subordinate to the constitution, Senator Nwachukwu said that “ events have shown that those things that hitherto keep us together can no longer work based on the present realities .
According to him “military did what they did to keep Nigeria together , but that has taken a long time now . The 2014 National conference produced a fantastic report and government for whatever reasons refused to implement it and it will be unjust if the report is jettisoned”
Both speakers also asked the president to consider a review of the report of the 2014 National conference which according to them attempted to answer most of the National questions today.
On his part, Bishop Kukah said it was wrong for any body or group of persons to see the call for restructuring as an attempt to dismember Nigeria, just as he stressed that there must be openness and fairness in such debate to dispel such fears in some regions. In his contribution, the Publicity Secretary of Afenifere insisted on a radical shift to productive economy , where revenue sharing formula will be based on unit contributions to the National economy.
Any who think Disintegration base on backgrounds of the natives- which is the only scientific answer, will not be defended with whatever it takes, is ignorant and naive. It is Biafra Republic of south east, Niger Delta Republic of south south, Oduduwa Republic of south west, North East, North West, North Central, with economic cooperation and assistance etc. Fulani criminals who are not natives in this territory, do not have native land in this territory, by so doing, do not have stake in this territory- lands of the natives, must vacate this territory now with their criminal caliphate, politicians, military circle etc. hidden under the fraudulent political name Nigeria or will be annihilated in the ongoing Revolution War of the natives- South East, South South, South West, North East, North West, North Central. The days of fulani criminals in this territory- lands of the natives, with their criminal caliphate, politicians, military circle etc. hidden under the fraudulent political name Nigeria, are over- they are behind the mess, atrocities, conflicts etc. in this territory- lands of the natives- it is over. Liberation of the natives has come, Freedom of the natives has come- it is irreversible. This is 21st century world. God Is With Us!!!
Nigeria as a country has all that it takes to be a great and a rich country amongst the greastest and richest
country in the polity of nations.
But we are a failed state with a dearth of all the things which are taken for granted in this 21st century; potable water, power supply (electricity),affordable healthcare for all,motorable roads, you name them,because Nigerians are irredeemably corrupt to run a Democratic Government.
Ours is but a Kleptocracy not a Democracy.All that the ruling elites of Nigeria do is to loot and share amongst
themselves and their cronies,our vast Niger Delta Gas and Oil Revenues,leaving absolutely nothing for the down-trodden masses.
For example, our Federal Government spends ten times what rich and developed countries like the,Germans, Japanese or the US,spend in order to maintain the Legislative Branches of their Governments.
Nigeria is currently running the most corrupt and expensive government in the entire world and yet,the down trodden masses are abandoned to wallow in abject poverty and deprivation.
The streets of cities and towns in the North are teeming with beggars, street urchins ,gutter and under-bridge
dwellers.Their Southern counterparts,who have no future prospects, leave the country yearly in their thousands in search of greener pastures abroad, only to end up as slaves in Libya or in semi-concentration camps through out the Maghrebs.
Scores of young Nigerians are drowning in the Mediterranean Sea every week in their desperate attempt to make it to Europe.
About 90% of black prostitutes in the Balkans,Italy and Spain are Nigerians (85% of them are Edo young women) ,and most of them are High School Graduates.What a crying shame indeed!
Hundreds of thousands of Nigerian asylum seekers through out Europe have no right whatsoever to be recognised as political refugees because their problem is economic not political.They are therefore,economic asylum seekers.
Why can’t that huge amount of money currently earmarked by the Federal Government for our Presidential
Fleet and for the maintenance, be used to cater for those Almajiris of the North and to bring our stranded Youths in North Africa and Europe home? Why must that son of an undocument cattle driver alien,Buhari be allowed the
privilege of private jets,while millions of native Nigerians go hungry to bed every night?
Why can’t we Nigerians swallow our undeserved pride and be bold enough and unabashed about it by asking our former Colonial Masters to come back and recolonize us,because we are incapable of governing ourselves?
I am 100% sure that Her Majesty Queen of England and of our Commonwealth of Nations will be very happy
to grant us such a humble request.She will certainly be going to appoint a Governor,who will be going to oversee,a harmonious and a properous running of a functional and a Democratic Nigeria with equity,fairness and justice.
Aporpos,on unity:How dare the President of the Senate,Mallam Bukola Saraki talk about our unity as a united
country,when at the same time,the Fulanis and their Hausa/Kanuri muslim mongrels are currently running their parallel Islamic Republic,so called Caliphate/Sultanate of Sokoto, within our supposedly Secular Republic?
The Hausa/Fulani neo-colonialist Caliphate of Sokoto unilaterally declared our Fatherland an Islamic State (OIC),imposed their Sharia-jurisprudence upon us Christians and handed down to us their own brand of Islamic cooked up Constitution,which with the Federal Character cum Quota System therein,by de facto make our Fatherland an Usman Dan Fodio Estate for the Hausa/Fulani/Kanuri muslims.
That the Hausa/Fulani/Kanuri muslims are hell-bent to Islamise and subjugate us Indigenous Nigerians, is indeed a brazen threat to our very unity as a country.
One might be tempted to ask why muslims like Mallam Bukola Saraki,his muslim cohorts and cahoots always
talk about our unity,whereas it is only the muslims in this country,who brazenly indulge in acts that are inimical to our unity as a country.
Come to think about that, apart from their parallel Islamic Republic,imposition of Sharia,our forced OIC,G8,G15 memberships,we have also had for years their Jihadist Killer Squads,aka,Boko Haram waging a war against us in an attempt,like President Buhari would have it,to have Sharia implemented and enforced all over the country.
Currently Buhari’s MACBAN and its Fulani herdsmen and Militias,who are openly being aided by our Arewa Janjawee Jihadist dominated Army of Vandals,commanded and dominated by Hausa/Fulani/ Kanuri Jihadists are rampaging all over the country.
In the North Buhari’s Fulani cattle drivers slaughter and cleanse ethnic minority Christians from their ancestral lands with genocidal intents.
In the South,the Fulani herdsmen and Militias sack and pillage our towns,villages,farmsteads and hamlets,
destroy our farms and crops,rape our women folks and daughters and they have been killing those who dare stand on their way everyday.
Come on Mallam Bukola Saraki,without equity, fairnes justice and security, a united ”One Indivisible Nigeria ”
becomes a mere pipe dream, and indeed a metaphore for the maintenance of the current status quo of
Hausa/Fulani Islamic Hegemony in the polity.
Without a restructuring of this moribund failed country of ours, the basis for our continued cohabitaion with those barbaric, bellicose and murderous Hausa/Fulani /Kanuri muslim savages no longer exist.
The ultima ratio for us all, will be for us to go our fucking separate ways now.
For sure ,we Indigenous Christians gonna be singing Nunc Dimittis like the Soviets and Yugoslavs,come 2019.
No to the status quo ante bellum!
Down with Hausa/Fulani Islamic Hegemony!!
All Hail Biafra,the Land of the Rising Sun!!!
The only scientific restructuring in this territory- the lands of the natives, is Disintegration base on backgrounds of the natives- South East, South South, South West, North East, North West, North Central, with economic cooperation and assistance etc. in which the fulani criminals must vacate this territory now- dead or alive, with their criminal caliphate, politicians, military circle etc. hidden under the fraudulent political name Nigeria. Liberation of the natives, Freedom of the natives in the ongoing Revolution War of the natives- is irreversible- South East, South South, South West, North East, North West, North Central. This is 21st century world. God Is With Us!!!