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Monday 19 June 2017

Agitations for regional autonomy is not unlawful



Nigeria's acting President, Professor Osibanjo has recently declared agitations for  independence in the country as unlawful. This is wrong especially in a democracy. Photo: Google Images


 In the United Kingdom, there is a constant agitation for independence by Scotland and others, despite great devolution arrangement to protect the union. Nobody has ever threatened these regions with brutality or declaring their actions unlawful.


 It's very glaring that there is urgent need for reforms in Nigeria.
There is a great disconnect., no national identity. Ordinary people live independent of the government, and sycophants everywhere to do the bidding of their paymasters using great violence and cruelty. There is a lot of questions to be answered.


A political system that concentrates power in the hands of few people and a particular place is a not a good fit for the 21st century . It's pointless and must be resisted.


  "Nigerian citizens inhabiting regional states outside their ancestral territories experience political and economic disenfranchisement".- Rotimi Suberu.


 The acting President must not claim ignorant of this or is it because he is now the next President , thus,  the custodian of the status-quo.. 


"the pace of change itself is accelerating, the same rapid change occurs in politics."- Prof Warburg

This is 21st century where we must do more , move away from the status-quo and embrace the real change to free ordinary from economic and political bondage.

We cannot continue to gamble with the future prosperity and changes that drive the 21st century.


According to Mr Jefferson; Founder of the University of Virginia; "all laws and constitutions ought to sunset once a generation...Expecting a country 100 or 200 years later to live by the exact same rules is as much a folly as expecting a full grown man of six foot to six to wear the clothes he sported as a child"

'Biafra' and other ethnic minority agitations is a constant reminder that change may be hard, change is inevitable. These are grassroot activists pressing for common sense solutions.

We must listen to them ! Now is the time.....


The Vice President should listen to the Senate's advice to revisit the 2014 national conference report to help facilitate the restructuring of the country to ensure true federalism that fosters greater economic and social liberation.


We must remember that APC manifesto promised us restructuring so why is the Vice-President now trying to adopt the authoritarian style instead of promoting human rights and freedom that comes with democracy.    We are watching.... !

  According to Professor Wole Soyinka: "We are mixing up the arguement. When people say, especially former leaders and especially those who bear enormous responsibility for the question of breaking up or not breaking up, our roles in the first place, it always sounds hypocritical, dogmatic and dictatorial and that statement is that the unity of Nigeria is non-negotiable. Now that for me is a falsity. Anything is negotiable. The right of people to determine their future is what is non-negotiable.Most nations come to be through negotiations".



Uche Okeke.

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