NIGERIA GOVERNED WITH IMPOSED, UNWORKABLE 1999 CONSTITUTION ― PROF AKINTOYE, IGBOHO, OTHERS
By Yejide Gbenga-Ogundare And Taiwo Amodu
Nigerian Tribune
On Mar 17, 2021

Following the expiration on December 16, 2020, of the 90-day notice of constitutional force majeure and Notice of Grave Constitutional Grievances issued to the Federal Government of Nigeria by the Nigerian Indigenous Nationalities Alliance for Self-Determination (NINAS) led by its chairman, Professor Banji Akintoye, the group on Wednesday warned that the Federal Government and the National Assembly is inviting a dangerous regime of self-help in the country.

Akintoye insisted that those who insist on Governing Nigeria with the “imposed, fraudulent and unworkable 1999 Constitution, as well as those who still aspire to contest further national elections under that Constitution, should know they are the ones pushing Nigeria towards a Violent Disintegration”, adding that the ethnic nations currently trapped in the failed Lugardian experiment of 1914 will do everything legitimate under appropriate International Instruments to extricate them from the Union of death, attrition and backwardness that Nigeria has become for them.

The Alana Yoruba race and leader of the Ilana Omo Oodua made this known at a press conference held at the secretariat of the Ilan Omo Oodua in Ibadan, emphasising that the hydra-headed monster of gross insecurity running wild all over Nigeria wearing at various times, the garment of Boko Haram, Fulani Herdsmen, Miyetti Allah or bandits will force people to stand up for themselves, insisting that the gathering is to Inform the people and the international community on what the next steps will be in the resolve to extricate the race from the “death-trap and bondage that a unitary Nigeria has become for the people.

The (NINAS) in the communique signed by Professor Akintoye maintained that no progress is possible for the Peoples of Nigeria under 1999 which it dismissed as unitary.

” We cannot be Proclaiming Restructuring, Resource Control, Rule of Law Security, EndSARS,

Corruption, or even Good Governance and still be warming up to go to another round of General Elections in 2023 that will renew the life of the 1999 Constitution which Guarantees Unitarism, Resource Hijack, Impunity, Insecurity, SARS Killings, Corruption, and Bad Governance.

“We must now get honest with ourselves and turn off the tap from which these evils flow without further delay. The 1999 Constitution is that tap.”

While it recalled that it had earlier given the federal government an ultimatum, to open consultations with constituent components of Nigeria, it revealed its move to open dialogue with all the political office holders in Southern Nigeria and Middle Belt in order to hold a 60-Day Period of Consultations on how to work together.

The communique further read in part: “Let it be clearly understood that in the face of the demise of the 1999 Constitution and the rapid progression towards self-help across Nigeria by People who find themselves under the invasion by murderous, heavily armed Fulani Militia masquerading as herdsmen while the security agents look the other way, it is only a matter of time for the bloody altercations that are currently building up to explode into the violent disintegration of Nigeria with catastrophic consequences.

“Proclamation by the Nigerian Indigenous Nationalities Alliance for Self-Determination NINAS, offers Nigeria, Nigerians and the concerned international community, the most viable, most comprehensive and most peaceful framework for undertaking the inevitable fundamental reconfiguration of the damaged constitutional basis of Nigeria which has degenerated to the situation described in September 2019 by the United Nations Special Rapporteur on Nigeria, Agnes Callamard, as a Pressure Cooker for Injustice, in circumstances that pose a Threat to Global security.

“In the event that Nigeria snaps since the most notorious Global Terror Networks including ISIS and Al-Quaeda are already converging in the large swathes of ungoverned spaces Nigeria offers and with frightening prospects of an unprecedented Refugee Crisis for the World should Nigeria come undone.

“Now that Sheik Ahmad Gumi has helped us piece together the last pieces of the jigsaw puzzle regarding who the terrorists tormenting Nigeria are, where they are, what their motives are, what the Nigerian government and security agencies know, and the ethnoreligious fissures within the terror Battlefields, NINAS is confident that the illusions of many regarding the monster we are up against, will be dispersed and more hands will get on the deck.

“Those who insist on governing Nigeria with the imposed, fraudulent and unworkable 1999 Constitution, as well as those who still aspire to contest further national elections under that Constitution, should know they are the ones pushing Nigeria towards a violent disintegration but the ethnic nations currently trapped in the failed Lugardian experiment of 1914 will do everything legitimate under appropriate International instruments to extricate them from the Union of Death, attrition and backwardness that Nigeria has become for them.

“NINAS urge our various peoples across the Alliance Territories to remain calm and confident as measured steps are being taken towards ending our Bondage.”

Also speaking, Yoruba rights activist, Sunday Adeyemo, Igboho aligned himself with the submissions of the meeting, adding that it is time to stand against intimidation by any race because the Yoruba nation is not a coward.

He urged all farmers in the Southwest to go back to the farm as communities and farming outlets will be continuously monitored in order to provide security for them and forestall a further invasion.

Members of (NINAS) include Professor Banji Akintoye, former Chief of Staff in General Ibrahim Badamasi Babangida military regime, Commodore Ebitu Ukiwe, former Plateau state governor, Jonah Jang, amongst others.



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The dismemberment of this contraption is d only option

I blame Lordlugard in the first place

True but the headers from the north thinks the constitution is the best thing that happened to them after slice bread. we go get sense by force

GOFRONT:
I blame Lordlugard in the first place

Why not blame your parents for not aborting you @ birth, instead of blaming a man that died 97 years ago?

warripekin:
True but the headers from the north thinks the constitution is the best thing that happened to them after slice bread. we go get sense by force

Very funny are you not aware your people contributed to drafting the constitution of 1999 as amended?

Yes, because the same Igboho thats obviously illiterate knows the workings of the Constitution.

We need real federalism!

Or we secede!

Alexbells my only real Igbo man on NL
What do you say?

rexwalters:
Very funny are you not aware your people contributed to drafting the constitution of 1999 as amended?

your people didnt

jlinkd78:
The dismemberment of this contraption is d only option

I can never be a Biafran.

BIAFRA coming won't stop this your hate you people will only channel it to the next target

theTranslator:
We need real federalism!

Or we secede!

Alexbells my only real Igbo man on NL
What do you say?

I don't want to sound mean but what I prefer is restoring the autonomy of native people, full fledged regional governments will be terrible, it was a hard effort and risk to dismantle the old regional government.

If you want me to be sincere we are already at war, and Western politicians are not in sinc with their elites, if the west is really sophisticated, they should not make the same mistake we made by outright secession, don't ask for true federalism now, just madge a force to fight for your insecurities, within that moment a regional government would emerge but secede first and even Eastern Army will be in your borders fighting for the fatherland which in reality is a mirage for now.

“Let it be clearly understood that in the face of the demise of the 1999 Constitution and the rapid progression towards self-help across Nigeria by People who find themselves under the invasion by murderous, heavily armed Fulani Militia masquerading as herdsmen while the security agents look the other way, it is only a matter of time for the bloody altercations that are currently building up to explode into the violent disintegration of Nigeria with catastrophic consequences.

Words ever spoken and re-echoed.

GOFRONT:
I blame Lordlugard in the first place

Don’t blame anyone again we are not free from 1999 constitution organize yourself in whatever region you are in avoid registering to vote on political parties set up with 1999 constitution,

No more complains take action towards total freedom. There is no Nigeria as we speak the 1999 constitution has just been repealed but actions are needed on the part of the citizens to reject everything that’s guided or beer allegiance to the 1999 constitution.