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The Federalism of
the First Republic ,
of the 1963 Constitution, is being demanded by some as the solution to Nigeria ’s
problems. The proponents of this view seem to think that once Nigeria returns
to that constitution, with possibly some slight modifications, they and their
interests will be protected, and their cherished “One Nigeria” can go on.
*Chinweizu |
But they are
mistaken, I think.
They haven’t
considered why that constitution failed them. If it failed them before, can’t
it fail them again?
Like the 1963
constitution, the 1960 Constitution limited the powers of the Federal
Government to Defence, Foreign Affairs, and a few other items.
But it failed
woefully to protect the federating units—the regions—from a federal government
that was in the hands of a hegemonist Northern region with an expansionist
Caliphate colonialist agenda. Within 5 years, the Caliphate had, using the
Federal might it exercised through the judiciary, parliament, the police and
the military, plunged the Western region into a crisis that spread to engulf
the other regions in a civil war that ended in 1970 with the Caliphate’s
conquest of all of
Why You Can’t Get Aburi-Type Confederation
To appreciate why
confederation isn’t at all in the cards, we must understand how and why Aburi
was not implemented. Aburi was unacceptable to the Caliphate, therefore its
agents in Federal power in Lagos
refused to implement it. Why was it unacceptable to the Caliphate? The
Caliphate’s Nigeria project
is to dominate, conquer and forever exploit the rest of Nigeria . As the
Sardauna of Sokoto, the political leader of the Caliphate in the 1950s
and1960s, told his people in October 1960, as the other Nigerians were
celebrating what they thought was independence:
“The new nation called Nigeria
should be an estate of our great-grandfather,
Uthman Dan Fodio. We must ruthlessly prevent a change of power. We use the
minorities of the North as willing tools and the South as a conquered territory
and never allow them to rule over us, and never allow them to have control over
their future.”
–Sir Ahmadu Bello, Leader of the
Northern People’s Congress (NPC), and Premier of Northern Nigeria, (Parrot Newspaper, 12th
Oct. 1960; republished on November 13, 2002, by the Tribune Newspaper, Ibadan.)
Confederation
Aburi-type, or of any type whatever, would have allowed the other regions to
control their future. And that was what the Caliphate was totally opposed to.
And because they were holding Federal power in Lagos , they prevented its implementation.
That’s how and why Aburi was not implemented. That is also how
and why any confederation is not possible today. The Caliphate is in total
charge of the Abuja
government. And confederation is still not in their permanent interest that was
announced long ago by the Sardauna.
This impossibility of federation or
confederation applies also to the restructuring that some are hoping can keep Nigeria going.
However, and for the above reasons, any restructuring that would protect the
autonomy and interests of Non-Caliphate Nigerians will not be acceptable to,
and will be thwarted, by a Caliphate which is in power in Nigeria .
Why Restructuring Won’t Happen
Ohaneze at Awka
has just pinned its hopes on restructuring just because every zone, including
the Caliphate Arewa zone, is now singing restructuring.
Ohaneze don’t be
fooled!
When Atiku and
other Caliphate politicians talk Restructuring, isn’t it just a ruse to buy
time by keeping everybody preoccupied and distracted while the Caliphate
finishes it new amendments to its plans for perpetual domination?
Didn’t they go to
Aburi? Didn’t they kill the Aburi Accord afterwards? Didn’t they go to
Jonathan’s Confab? Haven’t they pocket vetoed its report and refused to
implement it? The Chinese say: Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame
on me. Ohaneze, don’t be fooled! Afenifere, don’t be fooled! South and Middle
Belt Forum, don’t be fooled! Any restructuring that can protect Non-Caliphate
peoples and give them control over their future will never happen as long as
the Caliphate has the power in Abuja
to prevent it.
If
federalism and con-federalism are both impossible in a Nigeria that
includes the Caliphate, then what?
I
suggest that no form of political linkage with a colonialist can protect his
intended victims, just as nothing will stop a cat from hunting any mice that
cohabit a house with it. Fences and
cages will not be sufficient barriers. If the claws of the cat are clipped, it
will return to catching mice when the clipped claws grow back. For the mice to
be safe, the cat must be removed from the house and left with no access to
them. So, Araba/partition is the only
answer to the problem of Caliphate hegemonism in Nigeria . Regional autonomy won’t do
the job now, just as it failed in the past. Confederalism won’t do it either.
Only partition with the erection of some version of an iron curtain will do it.
Because
of what the Federal Government can do even when its powers are explicitly
limited by constitution and the federating units have reserve powers,
Federalism or confederalism may be capable of many things. But the one thing it
cannot do is solve the insecurity problem of Ndi-Igbo and the other
Non-Caliphate Nigerians, in the Middle Belt and the entire South, who are being
targeted for ethnic cleansing so the cattle of the Fulani rulers can be grazed
on their land, all the way down to Lagos ,
Forcados, Bonny and Calabar. This insecurity is intrinsic in a Nigeria POW camp
in which their Caliphate Colonialist enemy is included. To read more exposés on the Fulani Jihadist
Caliphate Colonialism that is plaguing Nigerians, please follow this link to http://thenslm.com/home/
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