This political conference is inevitable in the nearest future in Nigeria based on the present realities and the state of things on the ground in Nigeria today. Nigeria continues to show more and more signs as well as the main symptoms of a failing state year in and year out. If following events that are listed below in this write-up are left unabated in Nigeria, but are allowed to continue to magnify and to enlarge unchecked, then they will surely lead Nigeria to a total failure or a final collapse of that nation.
The following are the events that will force the hands of Nigerians to hold this inevitable national sovereign conference in Nigeria:(i) Declining oil reserves coupled with the uncontrollable population explosion. (ii) Unabated rise in poverty amongst ordinary Nigerians. Poverty rate has increased from 20% in the 1980s to over 80% today. (iii) The massive official culture of corruption that is coupled with huge mismanagement of the Nigeria's resources by her leaders that do not benefit the ordinary Nigerians. (iv) The rising unemployment rate amongst our youths that is now at 50%.
(v) The national infrastructures, social services, educational systems and the health care facilities that are inadequate, over stressed, outdated and collapsing. (vi) The inability of the federal government of Nigeria to guarantee the safety of life and properties of all Nigerian citizens and residents as well as the many unsolvable cases of political killings, kidnapping for ransons, hostage takings, ritual killings, paid killings, public lynchings and armed robberies that the Nigeria's security apparatus cannot solved.
(vii) The continuous terrorism and the genocidal actions of the Boko Haram in the Northern Nigeria against the Northern Nigerian Christian minority groups as well as the regular sectarian violences (ethnic lynchings) amongst the different ethnic nationalities in Northern Nigeria. (viii) The militant groups that are fighting for the autonomy and for the resource control in the Niger-Delta region. (ix) The various ethnic political pressure groups, such as the Odu'a group, The movement for the actualisation of Biafra and many other tribal groups that are all fighting for self determination of their own ethnic nationalities.
These things that I listed above that are happening in Nigeria today have forced many nations in the past to hold a forced sovereign national conference to resolve their internal crises. These conferences either succeeded in finally addressing those crises via the new constitutions or the new political terms of engagements for better nations or they led those nations to their final break up into many smaller nations. Nigeria as a nation and with her current domestic crises cannot defile these historical trends in her future. Only time will surely tell.
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