Do we remain one country or break up into 3 or 4 autonomous countries?
There is no way to answer that question until we fully understand how our country got to this “Cul de Sac” of a stalemate.
The British Government in 1914, on the advice of Lord Lugard and the Power Brokers of the Northern Protectorate had forced the Amalgamation of the North and the Southern Protectorates under false pretenses.
They made our leaders believe that Nigeria would become a more prosperous country if the North and the South are merged into one country.
They never told our leaders they wanted the merger for their own selfish motive. They wanted to be able to use the vast resources of the South to augment the little economic resources and minerals they are getting from the North.
They have used that merger to create a brand the new Country called Nigeria in 1914. The word “Nigeria” was the brain child of the woman who later became the wife of Lord Lugard who became the first Governor General of Nigeria as one of the 4 British Colonies of West Africa which includes Ghana, Sierra Leone and the Gambia.
The same British Government is today begging the power brokers of the Southern Half of Nigeria to help keep Nigeria one by all means and to not let Nigeria break up.
It is a development we all must debate and agree on and not something to be forced down our throats like they did in 1914 with their self-serving Amalgamation Proclamation.
The Southern Half of Nigeria have now realized that they have been enslaved and taken for a ride by the British and they want to opt out of the Nigerian Federation in their own best interest as an autonomous unit before the Amalgamation.
The British Government led by its Foreign Secretary One David Lammy, a black man and the first non- white Foreign Secretary and the same Fulani Power Brokers of the North are doing everything in their power to coerce and to persuade the Southern half of Nigeria to accept to remain in the Nigerian Federation till the year 2075, 51 years from now on the bait and on the ruse that Nigeria is going to become the 5th largest Economy in the World, if they agree to stay and to keep their status quo.
I watched a podcast moderated by Adebayo SABURi of Baba Gbagede Imo TV with 3 major speakers from the Yoruba Nation namely Papa Bakai, one Mr. Koiki and one Mr. Ogunribido.
The 3 speakers explained in lucid Yoruba the issues at stake and how the British Foreign Secretary and the Fulani Power Brokers are again trying to sell the powerful Yoruba traditional rulers a pig in the poke by deceiving them to agree to extend the moribund 1914 Enslavement Amalgamation by 75 more years on the fake and false promise that Nigeria would be helped to become the 5th largest Economy in the World.
If you believe that foolishness, you will believe me if I tell you I have an Island owned by my father to sell to you in the Pacific.
It is another bogus lie and a deliberate falsehood
to sell our people a dead cockroach like they did in 1914.
The 13 American Colonies of Britain, facing a similar enslavement by the British had fought a bitter civil war with Britain to obtain their own independence and total autonomy from Great Britain on July 4, 1776 on the premise that there can be no participation without representation. They wanted a Republic of their own without any allegiance to the British Crown or Monarch.
Just like the British and Fulani power brokers did not consult far and wide with the people of the North and the South Protectorates, they are again trying to repeat in 2024 their major deception of 1914 they have foisted on the people more than 130 years ago.
The black British Foreign Secretary must think that our traditional rulers in the Southwest he is trying to cajole and persuade are fools who can be bamboozled to believe anything the British Government tells them. He probably forgot that Nigeria has been freed on paper from British domination and enslavement since October 1st 1960 and are not bound to take any advice from a crazy or a delusional British Government
The million Dollar question is whether or not the power brokers of the South are going to allow themselves to be deceived again to remain in the Nigerian Federation for another 51 years of enslavement and sorrow.?
I therefore plan to do 3 serial articles on the subject starting with this one as my Part 1.
If the 1914 Amalgamation Proclamation was that good for Nigeria. nobody would be asking for its abrogation. It was good for the Arewa Group in the North but not the remaining units of the Federation.
Nigeria has dumped on January 15, 1966 the British Parliamentary System that guaranteed regional autonomy that had allowed each of the regions to progress at its own pace and without being tied down by any other Unit. Under that constitutional arrangement the defunct Western Nigeria Government under our Premier Chief Obafemi Awolowo , had become the pacesetter in the Nigerian Federation.
The Coup of the Majors on January 15 1966 led by Major Chukwuma Kaduna Nzeogwu and Major Emmanuel Ifeajuna was quickly taken over by General Aguiyi Ironsi who first imposed a Unitary Government on Nigeria.
His military rule of only 6 months and 29 days was ended by another Fulani-led Coup on July 29, 1966 led by Major General Murtala but which ended up picking General Gowon as a compromise choice to lead Nigeria from 1966 to 1975 before Murtala Mohammed came in as Head of State and General Matthew Aremo Olusegun Obasanjo as the Number 2 and as the Chief of Staff of the Supreme Military Headquarters at Dodan Barracks in Lagos.
Their regime was followed by 38 years of Military Rule led by most of the Fulani and Arewa officers with one or or two coming from the Southwest and the Middle Belt of Benue/ Plateau
That was before Nigeria had settled for a variation of the American Presidential System which has now been turned into a Unitary Government by force unlike what obtains in America where the 50 States enjoy a level of autonomy that is not currently allowed in all of the 36 States of Nigeria plus the Federal Capital Territory of Abuja.
Right now President Tinubu is making a move to end the recurrent agitation by Biafra Group and the Yoruba Nation and the Ijaw and Arewa Groups to want to break away from Nigeria.
The President is sponsoring a legislation to the National Assembly and the Nigerian Senate to consider taking Nigeria back to the former British Parliamentary System
That move is a subtle admission by the Federal Authorities and Mr. President that the Unitary Presidential System we currently have, is not working for us and we all know it.
Something has to give. It could be a return to regional autonomy if there is a consensus on that instead of total breakup.
The Amalgamation Proclamation of 1914 has failed us and the U.S. Presidential System just like the Military Rule of 38 years have also failed us and Corruption in high places and pervasive poverty and starvation and the draconian fall in the value of our local currency compared to the Dollar and Sterling has irredeemably hurt our country.
The Arewa Group is planning to go. Biafra wants to go. The Yoruba Nation is determined to go and the Minority Ijaw Group in Nigeria has signified their intention to also break away.
We all can agree right now that a consensus is already building for Nigeria to break up, believe it or not.
I recognize the advantage in keeping Nigeria one but not when one unit of the trifecta is being held to ransom and enslaved by another unit. Nobody should tolerate that is my point.
If that is indeed the case, why are we fighting ourselves? It simply means that we all now can agree that keeping Nigeria one is no longer a task that must be done as once reminded us by General Gowon after leading Nigeria to end the Biafran War from 1967 to 1970 and after trying to promote reconciliation for all of his tenure from July 29 1966 to 1975 by declaring there was no victor or vanquished in the War but those who fought and lost the War were not fooled. They knew they lost and the rest of the country knew they did.
So what is the motivation of the British Foreign Secretary by trying to persuade Nigeria to further extend the Amalgamation Proclamation of 1914 by another 51 years when the current group of Nigerian leaders and many of us who are still alive today may have been dead and gone in a country where the average life span for women is 49 and 46 years for men the last time I checked.
What the British Foreign Secretary is asking Nigeria to do, makes no sense, and it is not a suggestion made in our best interest.
The British just want to continue to milk Nigeria and to take undue advantage of Nigeria. We must not let them succeed.
That the Foreign Secretary David Lammy is a black man like the rest of us makes the insult more atrocious and painful.
If Nigerians want Nigeria to break, the British have no business telling us what is in our best interest.
They should go mind their own business because Nigeria is no longer their colony and they cannot dictate to us what is in our best interest.
That statement concludes the Part 1 of the 3 articles I plan to do on the subject.
Stay tuned for the Part 2 and 3.
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