former Aviation Minister, Femi
Fani-Kayode has said that if Nigeria cannot be restructured, let it
disintegrate into smaller independent entities.
He urged Nigerians to understand
that restructuring the country can never be achieved through the 1999
constitution or the current National Assembly.
According to him, the system was
rigged and designed to protect and preserve itself, adding that and the core
north effectively had a power of veto in the National Assembly which it will
always exercise in order to block any form of restructuring.
Fani-Kayode wrote on his Facebook
page: “For those commentators in this forum who have never participated in or
understand Nigerian politics but who tend to speak and act as if they are the
only ones that are sincere about restructuring I have the following to say.
“I hope you have learnt a lesson
or two from the fact that during the constitutional review exercise that took
place in the last few days the Senate has refused to devolve power from the
centre and initiate the process for genuine restructuring in our country.
“These are the hard facts, hidden obstacles
and bitter realities about the struggle that some of us that are in the field
have been facing and complaining about for the last 25 years!
“From henceforth let it be
clearly understood by all, including those that desire restructuring but who
have never participated in Nigerian politics, that we can never achieve it
through the existing constitutional structure or the National Assembly.
“This is because the system is
rigged and designed to protect and preserve itself and because the core north
effectively has a power of veto in the National Assembly which it will always
exercise in order to block any form of restructuring. It is this point that
people like Nnamdi Kanu and other ethnic nationalist leaders came to appreciate
long ago and it explains their ‘hardline’ posture on these issues.
“The bottom line is as follows:
restructuring will not be given to us freely or on a platter of gold.
“It must be taken and if
necessary it must be taken by force.
“Finally mark this: if it does
not eventually come then I say let us cease to be one nation.
“I would rather live as a free
man in an independent Oduduwa Republic than continue to live and die as a slave
in the Federal Republic of Nigeria.”
Restructuring will be good but they will never allow it.
ReplyDeleteFFK if you cannot win you spoil the game.But you were favoured by the game two years ago, you enjoyed it and danced to its tune. Everything was OK. Now you are agitating for the disintegration of the country . My adevice to you is please first return all the money that was alleged that you took illegally inwhigh Obanikoro testified to before the country can disintergrate. But I believe yr boss will disagree with you on this idea.
ReplyDeleteU commentors are refering to 2yrs back while we are discussing abt our future wellbeing.. As far as I am concerned, Fani is speaking the mind of many Nigerians. Mindless of where I hail from
ReplyDeleteBut if PDP had won the last election, the status quo would have been okay and all these cry for restructuring won't even come up abi? PDP had 16 yrs, what did they restructure? And you think you're smart right?our problem as a people is not because of lack of knowledge but because of people that chose deliberately to remain stupid. FFK takes the lead in this team and some cretinous idiots are following him sheepishly.
DeleteI don't know weather u r speaking for some one or for urself. if u r speaking for urself u r a big dreamer.
ReplyDeletenig is biger dan ur lack of native sense. plz hv some native sense, let me remind u APC will finish d nig project,
very interesting. so that plp like you and Fayose can rule us in the west abi. Oleeeeee.
ReplyDelete“It is on record that our leaders, heroes and elders have been calling for this particular Restructuring before and after Nigeria Independence of which Mrs Margaret Ekpo was the first person who called for it; Dr. Nnamdi Azikiwe in 1945, Isaac Adaka Boro in 1963, Chukwemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu in 1967 that is known today as (Aburi accord) which later led to the massacre and starvation of Biafran children, women in churches, hospitals, schools and market places in cold blood between 1966 and 1970 and lastly Ken Saro Wiwa in 1993 who campaigned vigorously, without a single gun shot, for the survival of his people. All these people are Eastern Nigerians who saw the decay in the Nigeria system and called for a peaceful settlement that will benefit everybody. But the born to rule mentality of the core North rejected it with impunity. And, now, they demonstrated it again on the floor of the Senate.”
ReplyDeleteReferendum is what we need in Nigeria, but it won't come so easily...
You definitely have a very bad sense of history, I'll advice that you dust your history book and refresh yourself.
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