Friday, September 22, 2017

Re: USA Africa Dialogue Series - Flying Without Perching : Salutations to IPOB on their Latest Victory in the Struggle for South-East Freedom from Nigeria

The people who want to go are saying, let us vote on our desire to leave the forced union.

They are willing to abide by democratic procedures.

Those who do not want them to go insist there shall be no voting, no listening to their demands and those demanding a vote should be outlawed and killed.

The Nigerian system is not working.The issues go beyond the various conceptions of marginalization, some of which, like the cry for more inclusive political appointments,  are an insult to the concept of self determination.

I identify with the Biafra vision bcs I see it as aspiring to replace a forced nationhood without any unifying and guiding ethos with a nationhood created by a freely choosing people.

The ruling elite rightly fear that if that referendum is granted, Nigeria as we know it now will cease to exist, and thus their feeding bottle will die.

With the bad blood the fed govt has succeeded in creating in the SE, such a referendum now will see victory for the Biafrans.

With Biafra gone, there will be no stopping the Niger Delta. Its restive activists will almost certainly demand their own referendum which will certainly result in victory for those who want an independent Niger Delta.

With the Niger Delta gone, the forced coalition known as Nigeria will come to an end.

The only thing holding the nation together is Niger Delta oil.There is no unifying ideology, no common nationalistic goal being pursued by its political elite and its soldier politicians, as far as I can see.

Such a collapse is one of the best things that can happen to Nigeria. We need freedom from the destructive abundance of Niger Delta oil money.We need freedom from Fulani terrorism, the alliance of armed Fulani militia and Hausa-Fulani politicians and  elite that is on a national colonizing drive through massacre and individual murders.

Such a collapse is likely to be catastrophic for unprepared states bcs Niger Delta oil money is all that is keeping them afloat. States that are prepared are likely to flourish in a new culture of creativity unfettered by the sluggish behemoth that is the Nigerian state.

Biafra has become a myth. No one can kill a myth. The best one can do is learn from, appropriate, adapt or ignore the myth.

The Biafra myth is centred in the creativity and resilience of Biafrans in sustaining for years a war in which they were greatly outnumbered in all tools of warfare, yet created enablements Nigeria has not been able to replicate.

Biafra suffered from class divisions, corruption,  brutalities  against non-Igbos and perhaps a degree of hubris, but the essential vision remains undimmed-the ability to create one's own nation by carving out a relatively demographically homogeneous piece from a nation in which a people feel endangered.

 Being cowardly, self seeking and contented with little dreams marks a situation in which people feel trapped within overwhelming social forces beyond their control. The Biafra vision transcends such littlenesses.

Yesterday, that dream was led by Ojukwu. Today, its Kanu.That vision is not going to vanish.It cant die. The thousands who died in the name of Biafra and those who are dying now can't die for nothing. The best Nigeria can do is accommodate itself to that vision and work with the Biafrans to provide opportunity to test their vision by exercising the right of the South Easterners to decide how they want to live, within or outside Nigeria.Anything else is a waste of time.

Thanks

Toyin










On 22 September 2017 at 22:26, Chidi Anthony Opara <chidi.opara@gmail.com> wrote:

"The Nigerian constitution must be amended to allow for referendum. There is no way out of that. I can't see the political and military elite, at the apex of which are Hausa-Fulani elite, agreeing to a fundamental restructuring of  what has been called the feeding bottle system enabled by Niger-Delta oil, that justifies their existence." (Oluwatoyin Adepoju)

What you do in every civilized human society is to engage in dialogue with those who disagree with you, those who express fears about your proposal, give concessions and extract concessions.

CAO.

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