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Nigeria May Cease To Exist After 2019 If.... - Ayo Adebanjo by ERockson: 11:14am On Jul 15, 2017
Afenifere chieftain Ayo Adebanjo bashed
the military regime of Sani Abacha which
saddled Nigeria with the burden of a ‘false’
constitution

- He stated that northern states heavily
cheated other states in the federation
because they give so little and get so much
- He called for a change in the status-quo
while accusing president Muhammadu
Buhari of defending the current situation
because it greatly favors his northern
kinsmen


Chief Ayo Adebanjo, a chieftain of the pan-
Yoruba socio-cultural organisation, Afenifere
and elder statesman has stated that the
country may cease to exist after 2019.
In an interview with Punch, Adebanjo stated
that if political leaders fail to heed the call to
restructure the country, Nigeria may cease to
exist.

He noted that except for a few northern elites
like Atiku Abubakar, Gen. Ibrahim
Babangida (retd.), Gen. Yakubu Gowon
(retd.), Col. Umar, etc who have been calling
for restructuring, most of the elites of
northern origin seem to be irritated by the
word ‘restructuring’.

He stated: “Of course, without restructuring,
there might be no Nigeria. It’s as clear as that.
“I often say that the word restructuring came
into our political lexicon after the military
coup. Why? When the military came, they
suspended the constitution and then created
one-line government.

“When they wanted us to return to civilian
regime, they didn’t want us to have it under
that constitution.
“In 1993, Abacha made that fraudulent
document (constitution); he died and
Abdulsalami Abubakar sustained it which was
handed over to Obasanjo in 1999.
“Yet, they are saying we have to live together
on the constitution made by the North.
He stated further: "I give you an example.
“Lagos and Kano had identical population. The
military created Jigawa from Kano and then
created local governments so much so that
from the two states you have over 70 local
governments.

“Lagos still has 20 LGAs. This is one of the
inequities in this constitution that the
opposition to restructuring wants us to retain.
“There are a lot of bad things in this
constitution. We don’t want violence, so let’s
sit down together and talk.
“The military men changed our structure and
laid down strange conditions for distributing
our revenue, like using land mass, whether
productive or not.
“With what is in this constitution now, the
North is contributing £1 and they are collecting
£1,000. That would be the sum total of the
situation. They contribute N1 but they are
taking N20,000.


“They used all the conditions that favour them
as the basis for distributing the allocation they
don’t contribute to. These are the injustices.
“You see why the South opposing this
constitution. And they are doing that because
of the crude oil. Let them refute it.
“They can’t counter it other than to be
politically correct because their leader doesn’t
want it.
“And I accuse Buhari that it is because his
people are the beneficiaries, that is why he is
defending it. They want it to continue, but it
won’t continue.

“And we are in this position again today
because Asiwaju Bola Tinubu led the Yoruba
into an alliance with APC.
“At 89, what else am I looking for? I’m only
sorry for your generation. When people should
do something positive, they are playing with
words because they want to cheat you.
“I want you to emphasize that the reluctance
is because they want the country to separate or
they want to impose unity on us, which I call
the unity of the horse and the rider.
“The North would be the rider and the South
the horse. We say no, it will not happen.
“For a democracy that would work, we need to
go back to the constitution we had at
independence, which our founding fathers gave
us. How can you be cheating me and you want
me to keep quiet?”

Meanwhile, NAIJ.com previously reported
that acting president Yemi Osinbajo said the
federal government will soon address calls for
restructuring made by some Nigerians.
The acting president made the statement at
the presentation and launch of a book titled:
“Nigeria: The Restructuring Controversy,” in
Abuja.
Osinbajo, who was represented by his special
adviser on political matters, Babafemi Ojudu,
said the federal government was aware of
debate for the restructuring of the country by
Nigerians and has noted issues about the
debate.

https://www.naij.com/1115129-nigeria-cease-exist-2019-country-restructured-ayo-adebanjo.html

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Re: Nigeria May Cease To Exist After 2019 If.... - Ayo Adebanjo by Newmanluckyman(m): 11:25am On Jul 15, 2017
...you can't deceive people for too long. The core north (NW) has been the major beneficiary of this project called Nigeria without contributing equal value to it. Nigeria has a date with destiny.

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Re: Nigeria May Cease To Exist After 2019 If.... - Ayo Adebanjo by allstarcomic(m): 11:40am On Jul 15, 2017
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Re: Nigeria May Cease To Exist After 2019 If.... - Ayo Adebanjo by ERockson: 3:00pm On Jul 15, 2017
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Re: Nigeria May Cease To Exist After 2019 If.... - Ayo Adebanjo by blackfase(m): 4:05pm On Jul 15, 2017
.Watch some of my foolish gambari ass-licking Yoruba kinsmen come here and raise Cain about these points raised here.

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