Presidnt Muhammadu Buhari’s latest attempt to ridicule and abort the idea of a restructured Nigeria came last week when a delegation of the Urhobo Traditional Rulers and Delta State leaders paid him a courtesy visit. The President, it appears, seizes every opportunity to lambast and denigrate the advocates of the political restructuring of the country. In January, in his New Year message to Nigerians, he dismissed the calls for restructuring as a distraction. Last week, he went even further and imputed selfish motives to the advocates. In his reply to the Urhobo and Delta leaders he stated: “you mentioned something which is typical these days, the issue of restructuring Nigeria. For every group asking for restructuring has got their own agenda and I hope it can be accommodated by the Constitution.”
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Supporters of political restructuring were quick to take umbrage at the President’s comments and they included the Yoruba socio-cultural group, the Afenifere, which has been an advocate for 25 years. Other groups included the Pan Niger Delta Forum, the Ijaw Professional Association, the Peoples Democratic Party, the OgbakoIkwerre Worldwide, the Civil Liberties Organisation Bayelsa State, Ijaw Youth Council and others.
The most potent argument was the President’s volte face for which the Afenifere leader, Chief Olu Adebanjo, characterised the President’s remarks as hypocritical and insulting for imputing selfish agenda to restructuring advocates. He recalled that when in 2007 Buhari was running for President and sought the endorsement of the Afenifere, he (Buhari) did not then question the motive of those clamouring for restructuring. Again, in 2011 when he was running alongside Mr. Tunde Bakare, he never questioned the intentions of those advocating restructuring. “Did Bakare (Buhari’s running mate) have a hidden agenda in 2011? Restructuring was also one of the promises of the All Progressives Congress in 2015,” under whose banner Buhari eventually won the presidency. Buhari’s utterances, Chief Adebanjo said, “are not consistent with the integrity he claims to possess.”
Chief Adebanjo’s observations are consistent with those of a vast majority of Nigerians who are disappointed with the President’s views. Advocates of restructuring fear that the country is in danger of disintegrating under the weight of its current structure. The President’s attitude of ‘après moi la deluge’ is not only short-sighted, it is dangerous. The views of many Nigerians on the need for restructuring have reached a critical mass.
In 2014, a National Conference sat for four months and was comprised of 492 eminent Nigerians selected to represent every conceivable segment of the Nigerian society ranging from women’s groups to youth organisations, retired generals and statesmen across generations. The resolutions were based on unanimous consent and are contained in a 22-volume compendium of at least 600 draft proposals ranging from the devolution of powers within the Federation to the accommodation of independent candidates in Nigeria’s elections.
Even the All Progressives Congress, the ruling party led by the President, after years of playing deaf to the nationwide agitation for restructuring, set up a committee which concurred with reasonable opinion of most Nigerians that the country must be restructured. Is the President saying that the 10-man ‘APC True Federalism’ committee had a hidden agenda? Is he now vindicating the skeptics who said the committee’s work was typical APC vote-catching bait? Indeed, while we commended the APC committee for its work on our editorial of February 4 2018, we cautiously observed that much as we appreciated its submissions on issues such as state police, resource control, the railways and fiscal federalism, we noted that “these are just words on paper. Nigerians are skeptical…The true test of the party’s good intentions and seriousness can only be ascertained by the expedited passing of the requisite bills to incorporate the changes into our constitution. The APC should have no excuse whatsoever, given its commanding majority in both chambers of the NationalAssembly. If in the next few months the necessary legislative work is not done to make the recommended restructuring a reality, Nigerians will come to the conclusion that the submissions of this committee are nothing but a vote-catching exercise.” It is sad we seem vindicated both by the President’s words and the inaction of the APC.
Nigeria was founded to be a federation. This is one issue on which there was a consensus among the founding fathers at independence. The 1960 Independence Constitution and the 1963 Republican Constitution are testimonies. The military intervention of 1966 shattered that consensus. The transformation from a federal into a unitary state always had its problems. The assumption that the unitary state is a normal state is pregnant with consequences now that it seems to be crystallizing into a political orthodoxy for the permanent control of power by a section of the country.
Fulani fraudulent criminal sultanate political government with its emirates controlled by British bandits and fraudulent criminal America with their fraudulent criminal UN of 20th century world international order opposition to the natives Disintegrated Republics- Biafra Republic of south east, Niger Delta Republic of south south, Oduduwa Republic of south west, North East Republic, North West Republic, North Central Republic, has meet the Sword of God- the owner of the world and everything in it. The Sword of God on Sokoto has begun. Sokoto- the last bastion of fulani fraudulent criminal sultanate political government with its emirates under the dead fraudulent political name Nigeria controlled by British bandits and fraudulent criminal America with their fraudulent criminal UN of 20th century world international order. No stone will be left unturned in Sokoto. No enemy will survive in Sokoto. The wind of Sahara will blow off the ashes of the palace of the criminal tout nickname sultan in Sokoto. The Vultures of blessed heaven will feed on the criminal call sultan in Sokoto. It is Revolutionary Militant Groups- RMG etc. formation which its members are the new military, police etc. under the natives Disintegrated Republics. God has put the enemy in the hands of this territory natives of this generation to crush. Freedom of northern natives from fulani bondage has come. Freedom of this territory natives from the bondage of the fraudulent political name Nigeria has come. God given Victory is the natives. Only the Sword decides. God Is With Us!!!
The fundamental merits regarding the restructuring of the country is that, it will once and for all
end the existing and current status quo of Fulani Islamic Hegemony in the country.
Come to think about that,those Hausa/Fulani muslim bandits,despots and rogue usurpers of power,who ran a relay governing this country from the 1980s through 1990s,used our land mass
as a criterion to carve up the country into surplus States and LGAs (Local Government Areas ) for
their Islamic North.
Thus,they created more Constituent Units for the North and thereby gave the North, a permanent
qourum in our two Houses of Assemblies.
That was indeed a fraud because the creation of Constituencies are usually based upon demographies not on fucking empty, arid and barren lands.
For example,our British Colonial Masters used our demography as a criterion to carve the former Eastern, Northern and Western Region into 12,14 and 9 Provincies respectively.
Furthermore,their fucking hand-down Constitution to the nation, with the gobble-dy-gook Federal Character and Quota System therein, by de facto made our country an Usman Dan Fodio Estate
for the Fulanis and their Hausa/Kanuri muslim hangers-on and mongrels.
At this juncture therefore,the ultima ratio is for us, the oppressed Indigenous Nigerians to insist on
”Retructuring of the Country before any further Elections”, in this shithole of a country of ours.
Wake up folks! Enough is enough. No Restructuring no Election jare!
No to the status quo ante bellum!
Down with Hausa/Fulani/Kanuri Islamic Hegemony!!
It is laughable for Buhari to accuse those clamouring for restructuring of Nigeria as having a hidden. He saw the previous government as under performing and came with promises to improve on the economy and governance under the present system and he has woefully failed. He cannot pretend not to hear the shrieking cry of Nigerians that point accusing fingers at some of his actions and inactions that smelled of hidden agenda. For a president supervising imminent collapse of the country under his watch to laugh at any suggestions for restructuring smirks of insensitivity and marks him as a champion of hidden agenda that is antithetical to good governance and corporate existence of the country. He slammed the IPOB who felt there is no future in this country and asked for a referendum to achieve a state of Biafra as terrorists and banned them with the hammer of the military force. Many patriotic Nigerians who still believe that the country can be saved through restructuring and the president again was said to be accusing them of having hidden agenda. Is there no hidden agenda in having wheel of this government spin on nepotism and blind corruption? Is there no hidden agenda when we are told that Boko Haram scourge has been contained to be replaced by murderous fulani herdsmen that have left trails of death unchallenged, curiously by the country’s agile military? Their silence and inaction bespoke of government with a hidden agenda pointing an accusing finger behind at patriotic citizens said to be having a hidden agenda through restructuring clarion calls believe to provide solution to this caricature of governance.
The sad truth is that once more the Yorubas have mortgaged the South to the evil plans of Buhari and his Fulani hegemony by handing over Ekiti to him. No doubt Fayemi’s victory will be seen by APC as an endorsement of Buhari’s despotic rule. These people have a fatal attraction to all things evil and despite the administration’s collusion with Fulanis Jihad these Yorubas believe they are shielded from their attacks.
Nigerians never learn, Benue is APC led and so is Plateau State but they have not been protected from the onslaught of Fulanis’ ultimate agenda which is to literally own Nigeria.
If anybody’s has a hidden and selfish plan for Nigeria, it Buhari and his Fulani hegemony. It is a shame most Nigerians fail to see this even though this is staring in their face.
President Buhari is against restructuring because it will end the fulanisation agenda. It’s unfortunate that some southern politicians are not supporting the call for restructuring.