The President of Ohaneze Ndigbo, Chief John Nwodo has reacted to the uncompromising stance by some northern leaders over the restructuring of Nigeria.
He stated this in a statement which he described patently unpatrotic, inciting and capable of whipping up divisive tendencies among Nigerians.
He questioned the rationale behind dumping the recommendations of the 2014 national Conference which northern leaders took part in and their renewed stance that the present structure must remain.
In a scathing remark, he pointed out no region has the right among the federating regions to play god under any guise over the other while faulting the inciting remark often credited to the northern ruling houses that southern Nigeria remains their conquered territory.
The statement reads: “Ohanaeze finds these conditions patently unpatriotic, inciting and capable of whipping divisive tendencies in our polity. We do not know how any patriotic person of the immense character and reputation of our leaders at the Abuja meeting will wait for nearly three years to disassociate themselves from resolutions they contributed to, moved motions on, voted for, had taken seriously we also plead to be excused from the 1979 and 1999 constitutions which were prepared by military governments dominated by northern military officers in which officers from Ohanaeze states had only token representation.
“Our federation is totally out of sync with all known definitions of a federation. We have no independence of federating units. Nigeria is a unitary state with too much powers in the federal government and no fiscal independence or responsibility for domestic security in the states. The need for restructuring is so obvious when Kano with 9.5 million people has 44 local governments and Lagos with 9.1 million has 20 local governments…
“Some northern leaders in their utterances give the impression that our nation is their conquered territory. God forbid! We should all be joint and equal partners in a common bid to build a united, virile and strong country…”
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