process which will either involve regionalism or total
disintegration.
On the topic, Sagir Aliyu said: Yes, I'm in support of
BREAK UP. Because most Nigerian minds are full of
hatred, sentiments, ethnicity, religious differences
and tribalism. Some are calling for revolution, but
instead of loosing lives and property; let the romance
end. Also if the 2015 election will result to loss of
lives and property, the romance should end before
then, Please!
Idris Musa also commented on the subject: Break up
is long overdue. Why can some have freedom to
perform their religious rites while some are deprived?
I can't remain at home on Fridays like Christians do
Sundays, Marital dossiers is only emphasized for only
one wife & four children. Economically, we are
considered parasites because they refused to revamp
agriculture. They refused to explore oil deposits in
more than five places in my region. Let us break so
that we have fresh air.
Musa Maiunguwa: I beg it's long overdue! Let's break
up anyhow regardless of the consequences. I want to
be governed by ISLAMIC LAW not this Infidel system
of government. I hate to be governed by
DRUNKARDS.
These comments were the prevalent type of response
from Northerners on facebook to my earlier article on
the subject, "Nigeria: Do We Need To Break This Up?"
A majority of northern masses are now making this
call as situations keep deteriorating in the nation and
undeserved ethnic insults and ethnic torment has
become the order of the day from certain quarters in
Nigeria.
Additionally, it appears that Nigeria as formatted and
the perceived disenfranchisement of certain aspects
of the South, justify and subject us and Nigeria as a
whole to a most terrible regime that is unable to
secure life in the north and yield for us the social,
economic and developmental dividends of
democracy; as poverty reigns at its highest level in
the north which is unfairly economically
disadvantaged.
Today, Nigeria has 100 million poor, however there is
an uneven distribution of the poverty with the South
doing more favorably, whereas the north suffers the
most with its level of poor as high as 80% living
under a dollar a day in many states, this compares to
the south that has levels from 20-50%. This level of
poverty in the north exceeds the level in neighboring
Mali, Chad and Niger, all sharing the northern
ecological and cultural demographics.
Trading blame as to who and what military and
civilian dictatorial and usurpist regime caused this
high level of poverty is puerile, meaningless and
disingenuous; and it contributes nothing towards
addressing the real and present epic crisis. Also,
asserting that because northern dictators have ruled
the nation for 60% of its independent life over 40%
Southern rule is meaningless and does not solve the
deadly poverty situation.
The ordinary masses are suffering. We gain
absolutely nothing from Nigeria's oil, apart from what
we buy of it at the pumps at a price above the global
mean, and rather we suffer from oppression and
terror as a consequence of, and thanks to bloody oil
money. Only the cabal enjoy from the current state of
Nigeria. Let it be known that the voices of many so-
called northern leaders, which are obviously the
loudest, do not represent the sentiments of us
suffering masses, wrecked with poverty and lack of
opportunity. These 'northern elders' are part of a
national cabal that exploits and extorts the nation.
These cabal obviously have no honest interest in our
region as can clearly be seen by their lack of
investment in the north, building all their factories in
the South. We the real people of the north are eager
for autonomy of our region. This is our position.
The landlocked north is clearly disadvantaged. None
of the regimes provided the transportation networks
to link the north to Nigeria's ports as would have
been the basic and smallest requirement to re-
establish a northern economy.
Our agriculture industry has been left to decay. Our
textile industry has been completely abandoned, as
we suffer from the 'curse' of oil and the illusion of
Nigeria's wealth from a mono-economy, which has
satisfied and favored only a set of greedy cabal
without regional distinction, north, east, west or
south.
We see regionalism with the plan of possible
disintegration as an urgent next best step towards a
northern cultural and economic awakening.
Many of us across Nigeria now agree that military
dictator; Aguiyi Ironsi made an error on 24 May 1966,
when he released Decree No. 34 which dissolved the
regions. Excerpt: "The provisions of the Decree are
intended to remove the last vestiges of the intense
regionalism of the recent past, and to produce that
cohesion in the governmental structure which is so
necessary in achieving, and maintaining the
paramount objective of the National Military
government, and indeed of every true Nigerian,
namely, national unity.
The highlights of this Decree are as follows: The
former regions are abolished, and Nigeria grouped
into a number of territorial areas called provinces. . . .
Nigeria ceases to be what has been described as a
federation. It now becomes simply the Republic of
Nigeria."
We hope Nigerians in South territories share our
sentiments and will be happy to peacefully and
respectfully discuss modalities of separation into
economically independent regions which will test and
pave a path for emotional, marital, economical,
military and other national related changes and
challenges necessary for possible separation in the
future.
Sent From David Aniemeka
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