--A backroom view of the state of the struggle for a True
Federalism Constitution.
By Chinweizu
10 January 2015
Why rebrand as the New South
Liberation Movement, NSLM?
Another issue that the CSC session should take up is the
rebranding of the struggle and turning it into the Nigerian Liberation Movement,
NLM, or better still into the New South
Liberation Movement, NSLM? So, why rebrand? Why NLM or NSLM?
A crucial step in
ending our “mumu” is for us to recognize that the issue for us all in the New
South is liberty or slavery.
One consequence of our “mumu” has been our comparatively
laid back approach to the struggle. Instead of meeting the militancy of Arewa
with our own counter militancy, we have been making gentleman, negotiating
rather than fighting. In December 2013, on the way to the National Conference,
one of the Caliphate militants, Junaid Mohammed, even warned us “‘Supporters of SNC
asking for civil war’”
and that “‘There’ll be
bloodshed, if Jonathan runs’”.
And, like mumu, we failed to take the hint, failed to realize that they were
already in war mode going into the National Conference. And we went to the same
conference in gentlemanly negotiations mode. The other side has been fighting
with the vigilance and courage of desperation, the desperation of a hungry lion
who won’t let his prey escape and deny him his dinner.
