Can the Aburi accord which Gowon and the northern elites denied to execute by reneging on the words reached out in Ghana still be used to forge a way forward for the New State of Biafra ? or is there going to be another accord that will be reached at with whom and where ?

Now that the people of Biafra want their voices to be heard . Is that document still valid after this 40years ? What are the prospect out there for those willing to join the struggle ? Mature opinions needed only.

Mods no suppression or oppression here o. The New State of Biafra is a like a movement .It has been slowed down for too long . But the waves blowing on it right now is spreading it fast like wildfire . I look forward to see biafrans realize this age long dream .


By failing to implement the Aburi decisions, Nigeria missed a golden opportunity to find a constitutional arrangement acceptable to all of its constituent parts. Had even half of the Aburi accords being ratified, Nigeria may have saved itself a substantial amount of the subsequent bloodshed that ensued over the next four decades.

It is a sad commentary on the lack of progress that Nigeria has made since Aburi that the issues discussed then (over 40 years ago years ago) are still being argued over today. Back in 1967, the Aburi decisions were not implemented for one primary reason: oil.

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Can the Aburi accord which Gowon and the northern elites denied by renegaging on the words reached out in Ghana still be used to forge a way forward for the New State of Biafra or is there going to be another accord that will be reached at? Is that document still valid ? Now that the people of Biafra want their voices to be heard .

only time will tell.

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Can the Aburi accord which Gowon and the northern elites denied by renegaging on the words reached out in Ghana still be used to forge a way forward for the New State of Biafra or is there going to be another accord that will be reached at? Is that document still valid ?

Mods no suppression or oppression here o. Please Mature opinions needed only please. Biafra is a like a movement .it has been slowed down for too long. But the waves blowing on it right now is spreading it fast like wildfire . Now that the people of Biafra want their voices to be heard I look forward to see my people realise this age long dream .[/quote]


A CONSTITUTION IN WAITING

By failing to implement the Aburi decisions, Nigeria missed a golden opportunity to find a constitutional arrangement acceptable to all of its constituent parts. Had even half of the Aburi accords being ratified, Nigeria may have saved itself a substantial amount of the subsequent bloodshed that ensued over the next four decades.

It is a sad commentary on the lack of progress that Nigeria has made since Aburi that the issues discussed then (over 40 years ago years ago) are still being argued over today. Back in 1967, the Aburi decisions were not implemented for one primary reason: oil.

Nigeria's greedy power brokers did not want a loose constitutional arrangement that would deprive them of the vast revenues which Nigeria earns from its crude oil exports. Hence Nigeria is glued together under a powerful central government of a type more suitable to a country with contiguous ethnicity.

Nigeria is quite simply too large, too diverse, and too fractious a country to have an all powerful central government of the type it has today. Across Nigeria, there are groups agitating for greater devolvement of federal power to the regions. Although the mantra of these groups is "restructuring" of the Nigerian federation - what they really intend is what Ojukwu wanted to achieve at the Aburi conference in 1967: a constitutional arrangement that would devolve so much power to the regions that the entity known as Nigeria would exist in name only.

Rather than engaging in another constitutional drafting/conference exercise at which will waste more taxpayers' money, and serve as a means for corrupt "big men" to get even richer, Nigeria would do well to dip into its archives and review the transcript of the debate at Aburi which is gathering dust in the national archives.

The debate transcript is sufficiently detailed to serve as a constitution in waiting. To learn from the debates and mistakes of the past may ensure a better future for Nigeria. What Nigeria needs is a "constitutional chap" of the type envisaged by Ojukwu back at Aburi. As Ojukwu said “It is better that we move slightly apart and survive, it is much worse that we move closer and perish in the collision.”

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