Re: USA Africa Dialogue Series - Let Us Separate Peacefully By TolaAdeniyi - Newspot Nigeria

Not jumping the gun : Will the result of the referendum/s be binding?

Any proposals yet about mapping out where the Independence Referendums should be held? 

All the states in the federation? Which states in the federation? The Referendum Map of Nigeria

I imagine that in e.g. Abia State, the Abians should be required to think twice before casting their referendum ballot by which they answer this question about their future: "Do you want to leave Nigeria or do you want to stay, yes or no?" If the resounding result is "no" in some of those ethnic enclaves and " Yes" in some others, what happens next? 

On Thursday, 24 June 2021 at 19:36:38 UTC+2 ovdepoju wrote:

Better put-seperation of SE.

Not all Igbo people want out of Nigeria.

Referendum should be for a new nation carved out of the SE which anyone, Igbo or non-Igbo, may join, without having to leave where they live at present, like one can live somewhere else without being a national there.

Igbos who don't want to be part of Biafra would simply indicate so in this nation wide referendum.

Every non-Igbo who wants to be part of Biafra would also indicate.

Those who wish to leave outside the SE but as migrants elsewhere in Nigeria  may do so.

Whatever method is used, I expect Biafra to emerge.

Many Nigerians are fed up with Nigeria.

If the SS has a referendum, they will also go, as most likely we all know.

The whole neither dead nor alive excuse for nationhood that is Nigerian nationhood is something many Nigerians are tired of.

Toyin

On Thu, Jun 24, 2021, 08:14 OLAYINKA AGBETUYI <yagb...@hotmail.com> wrote:

Omoba.

The main thrust of this piece by Akogun Tola Adeniyi is: the Igbo want to separate from Nigeria which he leapfrogged to the conclusion : let Nigeria separate peacefully.

1.  The premise can only be confirmed by a referendum of Igbo nationals.

2. Even if confirmed that does not translate into: Let the rest of the country separate into their constituent parts.  The rest will simply have to bid their Igbo brethren and sisters a tearful and nostalgic goodbye.  The Igbo cant insist if we go, the rest of you must go too!

If the rest see how the Igbo are thriving in their separate nation, may be that would convince them to leave the union at a later date.

As sage and poet WS puts it (supported by the recent stance of another celebrated poet Niyi Osundare),

the rest of the Nigerian nationalities have the right to declare :

' I may not go with you

 companions of the 

broken buoy.'

This is why I support the Senate Speaker's position that the referendum for Igbo separatism is the most urgent task facing the nation before constitutional amendment:  the Constitution can only be meant for those who agree to be bound by it as willing nationals.  If after the current amendment the Igbo decide to leave then the futile amendment will need to be redone for those remaining as Nigerians.

No force can stop the Igbo nation from leaving the Nigerian union ultimately if they are determined to do so by peaceful means.

If the national referendum question is ' let the Nigerian nationalities go their separate ways, Yes or No?,  it will frustrate and defeat the purported Igbo yearnings because most communities in the North will put a clear ' No.'

OAA

  

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