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The 1999 Nigerian Constitution has been described as a fraud designed to constantly turn other ethnic nationalities into slaves and in total domination of the Fulani.
This was the position of prominent leaders from various ethnic groups from the South-West, South-East, South-South and the Middle Belt as they have given the Federal Government a 90-day ultimatum to constitute a committee on Sovereign National Conference to decide on the repeal of the 1999 Constitution or to dissolve Nigeria’s amalgamation of 1914.
The aggrieved Middle Belt and Southern leaders, who spoke on the platform of the Nigerian Indigenous Nationalities Alliance for Self-Determination, in a statement on Friday, at a meeting in Lagos, made the resolution.
It blamed the worsening insecurity and poverty in the country on the 1999 Constitution
Some of the leaders who signed the communiqué are former Plateau State Governor, Jonah Jang; President-General, Ohanaeze Ndigbo, Chief Nnia Nwodo; Commodore Ebitu Ukiwe; Prof. Yusufu Turaki; a prominent historian, Prof. Banji Akintoye; Fred Agbeyegbe; and Senator Aniete Okon.
Also, Rear Admiral Geoffrey Yange, Air Commodore Indongesit Nkanga (retd.); Ambassador Godknows Igali; and Dr Kunle Oshodi, are among those who signed the communiqué.
The leaders stated that it would be better for all elections to be suspended in order not to use the same faulty 1999 Constitution in swearing-in those who the election.
The communiqué read partly, “Being confronted by the clear and present danger of extermination in the hands of our supposed compatriots in the union of Nigeria, (we) hereby declare a sovereignty dispute with the federation of Nigeria as represented by the Federal Government of Nigeria, on account of our repudiation and rejection of the imposed 1999 Constitution of Nigeria, whose authorship was fraudulently imputed to us.
“Furthermore, effective from today, 18th December 2020, (we) give a 90-day notice to the Government of the Federation of Nigeria, the Security Council of the United Nations, the Government of the United States of America, the European Union as well as the international community, of the intention of the peoples of the alliance territories to reconsider our continued allegiance to the disputed 1999 Constitution as well as the unitary union of death, attrition and backwardness it foists on us.
“It is our demand that in the 90-day period of this notice, the following specific actions must be taken by the Federal Government of Nigeria to firmly set in motion an irreversible process by which the aforementioned grave constitutional grievances would be addressed:
“A formal announcement by the Federal Government of Nigeria acknowledging the constitutional grievances and sovereignty dispute now declared by the peoples of the South and Middle-Belt of Nigeria.
“A formal commitment by the Federal Government of Nigeria to the wholesale decommissioning and jettisoning of the 1999 Constitution.
“A formal announcement by the Federal Government of Nigeria suspending further general elections under the disputed 1999 Constitution.
“A formal initiation of a time-bound transitioning process to engender the emergence of fresh constitutional protocols by a two-stage process in which the constituent regional blocs will, at the first stage, distill and ratify their various constitutions by referendums and plebiscite and in the second stage, negotiate the terms of federating afresh as may be dictated by the outcomes of a referendum and plebiscite.”
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