The subject of convening the much-needed Sovereign National Conference for the Nigeria's 386 ethnic nationalities, many religious faiths, social organizations and pressure groups before the elections of the year 2015 in Nigeria that will restructure Nigeria and put a new constitutional term of engagement in place for our continuous coexistence together in the same union and under the same Nigeria is seen by some Nigerians in 2013 as a no-go area, a huge political abomination and a forever settled national issue. The whole truth about Nigeria is the fact that nation was not birthed by any divine intervention or any supernatural event in all reality. It was humanly carved out in 1914 by the British colonial authority when the Northern protectorate continued to suffer from the yearly budget deficit and the Southern protectorate enjoyed annual budget surplus. The British then forced those two protectorates together so that the budget surplus in the south can take care of the budget deficit in the north. The various historical caliphates, empires and kingdoms that existed as autonomous political entities, religiously diverse, culturally distinct and historically uniques for centuries were all forced together into a new political marriage to benefit the economic advancement of the then British Empire. No single political contribution, input or referendum were sought by Britain from these ethnic nationals about their new political and economical future together as Nigerians.
The many of the political creations of the same Britain around the world have since falling apart and many more will soon fall apart as time goes on due to their faulty political foundations. The original nation of India that was created by the same British colonial authority had since broken up into the today's three autonomous nations of India, Pakistan and Bangladesh. The original nation of Sudan in Africa that was also the British creation had broken up since 2011 into the two different nations of Sudan and South Sudan. The historic vote on whether Scotland should break away from the rest of the United Kingdom will be held on September 2014. The Quebec sovereignty movement is getting popular by demanding for the independence of the province of Quebec from the rest of Canada. The Catalonia region of Spain after centuries of the political coexistence with Spain now wants their own different nation within the European Union (EU).
If Nigeria as a nation is truly working for all Nigerians in all reality as many Nigerians deceptively believed by pretending that all is well with their beloved nation. Why is every geopolitical zone and every major ethnic nationality today are all busy holding nocturnal meetings, forming political alliances, militants groups with political undertones and advocating for a President of Nigeria of an Igbo origin, an Ijaw root, a Southern Nigerian background, a South-South geopolitical zone, a Northern Nigeria extraction, a Muslim by faith and a Christian by religion? The Presidency of Nigeria is now fully based on the turn by turn basis that is not in the Nigerian 1999 constitution and never on meritocracy, leadership qualities, managerial abilities and sound political-economic visions for Nigeria. I see a political resolution in the convening of the much-needed Sovereign National Conference shortly.
The convening of the much-needed Sovereign National Conference of her ethnic nationalities is bigger that the presidency of Nigeria or Jonathan Goodluck, the present occupier of this seat. The political situation in Nigeria as they unfold gradually with time will eventually make this conference inevitable and unavoidable if that nation will survive. Nigerians are poor students of their own recent history. They have forgotten that the political crisis in Nigeria in the 1960s that almost tore Nigeria apart made the Aburi Conference in Ghana inevitable and the final outcome from that conference was to implement the political system of confederacy or regional autonomy which the then military dictator of Nigeria, General Yakubu Gowon refused to implement when he returned to Nigeria from Ghana. Another history is about to repeat itself shortly in Nigeria because we have refused as a nation to learn from our bitter past history
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