The Lower Niger Congress, LNC, made up of people of the
South-East and
South-South geo-political regions, has called for the
restructuring of the country to allow each region feel equal with other regions
in the country and to control their resources for the betterment of their
people.
It insisted that the outcome of the
just concluded general elections was a conspiracy by the South-West and the
Northern regions to sustain a master/slave relationship between and among the
federating units.
Spokesman of the group, Mr Tony
Nnadi, who addressed newsmen in Lagos on the just concluded general elections,
that said the 75 million people who make up the Lower Niger, will decide
whether they want to remain in the Nigeria federation and under what
constitution such relationship will be.
Nnadi said that the celebrated
democracy in Nigeria has left a deeply fractured nation where the ethnic
nationalities that make up the Lower Niger region are treated as conquered
people, who have lost their power to participate in the Nigerian state as equal
pruners.
Nnadi said the brazen manner in
which the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, treated the Electoral
Act with disdain, the flagrant abuse of voting in the North, the manipulation
of the card reader scheme were all done to weaken the voting strength of the
Lower Niger region while the North was given unfair advantage in the electoral
contest.
He added that the Lower Niger
Congress was planning a self determination referendum in the region comprising
of the South-South and South-East zones.
Meanwhile, President of LNC, Elder
Fred Agbeyegbe, said: “Even though many disputations around our constitutional
foundation remain unattended to and particularly without any hope of federalism
being ushered into Nigeria, Nigeria has, once again, had an election, which the
international community with their so-called interest in the workings of
democracy, have, from reports submitted by their appointed observers, adjudged
peaceful, free and fair.
“We are, nevertheless, compelled to
observe that, even if the rest of the world cannot see through the facade of a
penchant for democracy, we, the ethnic nationalities, minorities, owners of the
resources, victims of and for whose sake the Nigerian brand of democracy was
wrought, are aware that their commercial interests in a peaceful Nigeria,
overrides any pretended interest in democracy.
“Why else should the European Union
and the United States of America, the citadels of the principles of equality,
equity, fairness and justice, accept rules of democracy couched from a
slavery-enacting document like the 1999 Nigerian Constitution imposed by one
group in Nigeria over all else who had no participation in its making and from
whence comes the Nigerian notion of democracy, considering that the
Constitution is the instrument mandating the elections they came to Nigeria to
observe?
“Perhaps it is better left to
posterity to ponder Foreign Secretary Kerry’s goading to quick elections in
Nigeria in the same 2015, in which, based upon knowledge that so many
ethnicities are entrapped in its slavery, some other Americans predicted that
2015 would usher in the death of Nigeria as a nation state. For our part, the
writing is now on all walls, that it is time that those of us entrapped in the
Lower Niger, the area more at the receiving end of Nigeria’s feudalistic system
driven by the 1999 Constitution, should, soonest, examine our obviously
un-abating status of ‘’slaves.”
S-East, S-South regions call for Nigeria’s restructuring
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Tuesday, April 21, 2015
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