rose54321:
Abegi, northerners aren't ready for any breakup now until oil exploration is at exploration/ production level.

Fortunately or unfortunately Nigeria as a country has long been carved by our colonizers and there's really nothing we can do about it.
Maybe in decades to come, the south can break away, but I don't foresee that anytime soon.

What we would advocate​ for rather is reviewing the requirement to win the presidential election, it only favours the North. Either another state is given to the south east, or we return back to zonal regional structures, the latter seems more feasible.

It's unfair for a single zone to have a larger say simply because of their population.

sanandreas:
The last thing on their mind. How would Jigawa, Yobe, Bornu, Kebbi, Niger, Benue, and a host of other parasites survive?

odogwubiafra:
If they dare it, in just one year, they are gone.
In a dry land.
No brains.
No educational facilities.
No urge for personal development.

Their leaders and elites;
Very selfish, cunny and wicked.
They Lack conceptual, interpersonal and technical skills.

Mune:
As a northerner, breaking up the country will not change anything for me. Most people who even want the one Nigeria are our politician who mostly benefit from the arrangement.

If Nigeria were to break, the southerners will suffer it the most. The economy and everything is in the hand of the Southerners, and that will elude you.

IJOBA2:
LET ME CATEGORICALLY STATE HERE THAT AFONJA MUSLIMS WILL NOT LIKE THIS NEWS. NOW LALASTICLALA FEED THE AFONJA MUSLIMS AND WATCH EM SING ONE NIGERIA FOR US

ztapi:

okay so someone from katsina or nassarawa would be better of than someone from lagos or anambra without oil right?anyway forget it, nigeria isnt going to divide anytime soon

Mune:


That's not what am trying to say Mr!

A person from the north can survive without your oil as he has not been benefiting from the oil as you people seem to portray.

All the companies in Nigeria are dominated by southern ceo. In any scenario, if Nigeria is to break, that has to change for our good. The competition in your land for the scarce resource will be your greatest undoing.

For us, life will go on and we will finally wake up from our slumber; something providing you people with the ammunitions to attack us.

ztapi:

offcourse i know what you mean but its only based on very wrong assumptions, the IGR of states is a rough reflection of how independent they can be without input from the centre and on that basis i dont think most northern states can do as well as their southern counterparts when it comes to standard of living

ahmedkoded95:
Prof Ango Abdullahi -spokesperson of the Northern Elders Forum, a think-tank for the 19 Northern states, has said that the north is ready if Nigeria decides to break up.

In an interview with Sunday Sun, Ango, a politician, professor of Agronomy, one-time Vice Chancellor of Ahmadu Bello University who attended four constitutional conferences in Nigeria threw a challenge to those who think that the North is afraid of Nigeria’s disintegration into more basic constituents.

He said the North was ever ready for the dissolution and that the way to go about it was through the calling of a formal meeting with complete powers to terminate the legal relationships between the constituent parts in Nigeria.

According to him, If we agree that we should live together as a people and as a country, so be it, but if the general consensus is that Nigerians want to go their separate ways either on the basis of ethnicity, culture, history or religion, why not; why not, adding, “if anybody tells you that the large informed opinion in the North is against the dissolution of Nigeria, he is telling you lies.”

Reacting to a question on the readiness of the North for a dissolution, the agronomist, replied: "Absolutely, absolutely, we are. It all depends on the selfish way people want to negotiate.

I am 78 now and I also went to the only university in the country at the time in Ibadan. Nobody can tell me about the history of this country.

I know a lot about it because I was very much awake and a grown up person to know what happened.

"The people who argued for the creation of states in 1966/67 are the same people today who are asking for the restructuring of Nigeria with particular preference for regional arrangements.

The South-west wants preferably a region, a region that was at one time under the leadership of Chief Awolowo, unless, of course, you are trying to ignore all the writings, all the things that had been written, particularly in their declaration called DAWN, Development Agenda for Western Nigeria, then you can ignore this."

He further noted that "Biafrans who are saying the same thing. Chief Ekwueme is my respected leader.

"He was in the 1995/96 conference. In fact, he led the Igbo socio-cultural group to the conference and their proposal in that conference was for Nigeria to become a confederate unit. And of course, at that time, perhaps, there was still the feeling that some hopes still remain that Nigeria should paddle along and perhaps they will overcome some of these differences.

His proposal for confederate arrangement was defeated in the conference. I was there. But when he got the opportunity to review the report of the conference, a committee was set up to look at the report of the conference.

He was the one who really worked for these so-called geo-political areas that is totally unconstitutional.

They are not part of our constitution and this is one of the mistakes that the country is going through. Geo-political zones are not units in our constitutional arrangements.

They are selfish conveniences of people who are perhaps clamouring for political positions, elective or otherwise, that are operating today to the detriment of good governance in this country."

Prof Ango Abdullahi further reacted to why the North is ready for dissolution, speaking on the indices, he said: "The biggest indices other Nigerians do not want Nigeria; so I don’t see why the North should insist on having Nigeria. That is the biggest index I have. And this is on the basis of the recent statements.

The Nigerian elite are the ones undermining the existence of the country and as long as they remain in the fore-front as elite and politicians, so long as we are going to have problems, so long will Nigeria not have the rapid development that we had hoped to when we got independence in 1960."

He noted that there are statements hinting strongly at the dissolution. He said: "The Nwabuezes of this world. We sat with him a number of times, we argued, he is vehemently anti-North, anti-Hausa/Fulani. I spoke to him and he cannot deny this."

Speaking on restructuring, he said: "Which restructuring? What restructuring do you want? Initially, there was a bloc country broken into regions.

The regions were broken into states and today, there are 774 local governments, mainly in pursuance of so-called grassroots participation in government. What else is there?

The only thing that we have not had…we had constitutional conferences so many of them. We had all these creation of states, which we were not able to do as civilians and we only waited for the military to come and do them and still people are saying tha t they are not satisfied with the structure as it is in Nigeria."

Cc lalasticlala

https://politics.naij.co[right][/right]m/1086517-northern-nigeria-ready-breakup-prof-ango-abdullahi.html

GreatEngineer:
Then what are we waiting for?

sanandreas:
The last thing on their mind. How would Jigawa, Yobe, Bornu, Kebbi, Niger, Benue, and a host of other parasites survive?

rose54321:
Abegi, northerners aren't ready for any breakup now until oil exploration is at exploration/ production level.

Fortunately or unfortunately Nigeria as a country has long been carved by our colonizers and there's really nothing we can do about it.
Maybe in decades to come, the south can break away, but I don't foresee that anytime soon.

What we would advocate​ for rather is reviewing the requirement to win the presidential election, it only favours the North. Either another state is given to the south east, or we return back to zonal regional structures, the latter seems more feasible.

It's unfair for a single zone to have a larger say simply because of their population.