New Nigeria Movement Says It Is Desirable To Restructure Nigeria Based On Ethnic Nationalities

By Ayodele Oni

A new emerging Group, known as New Nigeria Movement, has advocated for restructuring of Nigeria based on ethnic nationalities and groupings.

The Group made up of representatives from all ethnic groups in Nigeria, pointed out that the suggestion was based on the study of the report of the national Confab held during ex President Good luck Jonathan’s regime.

It explained that “In this experiment, what we are sermonizing and implementing is the modifications of the boundaries of each nationality or grouped nationalities  into a regional geographical expression.

“The consummation of all the arrangements will now lead to the harmonious delineation of the country into compatible regions under a new constitutional direction for true federalism spelling the regional system of government.

The secretary general Council of Yoruba Elders, Dr. Victor Taiwo, listed the benefits of the arrangement to include “that each region will be orientated to gather its eggheads to look inward and exhume the elements of economic viability in their soil, water, environment and their brains to serve as the region’s economic mainstay.

“By the time these elite double-task their brains, they would discover that God has planted in each land the resources enough to sustain it without having any recourse to the oil from the Niger- Delta – the oil in the Niger-Delta being the bane of Nigeria and a curse for her competitive development.

“With this architecture emplaced, these harmoniously constituted regions will newly agree to form a union of regions federating into a national entity whereby each people can say, ‘We are one people with one destiny.’

“And they shall jointly agree to service the centre as against the centre repugnantly servicing all the states and local governments from one single economic mainstay of the fast thinning oil value.

“With all these arrangements emplaced, the region that wishes to fly like eagle or move at rocket speed will have nothing clogging it down.

“The region that wants to engage in majestical exhibition by scuffing at snail-speed is free for its pace without any inhibition or  interference.”

On the just ended 10 days  nationwide protest, the Group stated that “What the organizers and the people expect from the protests is an immediate change in the metamorphosis of the bad governance to a good one, yes with immediate effect.

“But the bitter truth of the matter is found in a maxim which says, nobody can give what he does not have.

“Sorry to say that it is not only President Bola Ahmed Tinubu that literally has no clue in the slightest streak to the problems of this country, the leadership of this organization has repeatedly made the emphasis in its countless prophetic broadcasts that let all the angels descend from heaven, they cannot fix Nigeria again.

“So looking for solutions from this government is akin to searching for the horse’s horns which do not exist or waiting beside the brook for the crab to blink its eyes. The wait will be eternal.”

On the way out, it suggested “peaceful dissolution of the country into compatible sovereign units and setting sail on the restructuring of the country without further procrastination.”