Mr. ODUA People’s Congress, how did northerners scuttle said regional system of government which is the next thing that could avert disintegration if the oppressed don’t play to the gallery of fear? Are they more than southerners or the latter is more than the former in delegate population?

I thought it’s gathered that all southerners combined outnumbered northern delegates at the conference. So how come they were the obstructionists, or could they have presented a better case and tactics or strategies; did some southerners gave them support?

By the way, which wrong would the already failed conference right with the recommendations it agreed to which doesn’t restructure the ill-foundation, thus jettisons proper/true fiscal federalism which means internal self determination. Nothing so recommended by the conference will solve the problems of oppression and marginalization, hence crisis and conflicts up to war and breakup in due course.

Proper and fiscal federalism in the Nigerian context, and since it will not create more than 300 states for the ethnic groups in the country, will bring fairness and equality through regional government which shall be autonomous yet collaborative to assist the central government work effectively and efficiently.

The regional governments of the current six Geo-political zones shall create certain number of states they can conveniently develop and maintain to standard and better and fair care for their ethnic peoples and not the current death-traps, which have no standard and effectively Mann emergence, trauma care and otherwise hospital facility.

It shall come with resource generation, control; internal allocation for sustainable development, not federal monthly sharing of oil money to pay salaries in more than 90% of the 36 states’ which can’t create monthly budget but proud to be parasitic only to be called cheating states. Regional system will also allow traceable national contribution to the center for effective running of the national government as common in working federations which Nigeria isn’t one. Nigeria isn’t a federation rather, a death-trap of the Hausa-Fulani, Yoruba and Igbo ethnic groups.

To be fair, some of the recommendations of the conference could have worked within their limits assuming they would become law, if the core issues I mentioned above were resolved honestly, fairly and justly.

Meanwhile, could Mr. ODUA People’s Congress or any member of the conference including the chairman, deputy and secretary, even Femi Falana and Olisa Agbakoba or other so-called civil society members who seem not to know what they went there for, honestly tell the public how among other crazy resolutions the conference “recommendations for State police, Zonal Commission, eviction of Status
of LGGs from the Constitution, now in the purview of States, and for
each state to have its Supreme court,” according to the quote credited to you herein will solve the lingering problem of the country.

That is, issues of ethnic oppression and marginalization by the so-called “major groups,” national dependency on Niger delta oil and the gross cheating through the creation of about 21 states, most of which aren’t viable like about 9 or 10 in the North spread among non-Hausa-Fulani ethnic groups, out of 36 .
It’s obvious the opportunity granted as if the conference was genuine and not politically motivated for Jonathan’s electability was lost from the days the current states’ structure, which causes huge ethnic imbalance, disrespect and cheating was allowed to protect the repressive status quo. The said opportunity was also lost when the conference foolishly lied it approved true federalism when the 36 states weren’t scrapped and replaced with regional government.

One of the core issues yet more reddish of all is resource generation, ownership or control. The conference play bad politics with it, everyone blaming the North for it as if the laboratory is needed to know that Ogoni and other Niger delta lands aren’t Hausa-Fulani, Yoruba or Igbo’s nor are they those of the so-called federal government.

Land of these latter groups are also not those of the former, and so there wasn’t too much need to waste time and blame the North for resource ownership and control. It’s both natural and sound human law, not the criminally motivated Nigerian military laws favoring the oppressive groups aforementioned that what’s on the land belong to the land and no human law qualifies to alter this, where any attempt otherwise the people in whom sovereignty lies have both moral and legal rights to disobey and claim their land.

At the end the presidency micro-managed conference passed this key issue back to the federal government so retained 13% derivation fund to oil producing states as though the rest of the country is sharing money that came from the fruits on my land to me instead of me deciding whether to assist them with this money or not, after paying relevant taxes. Conference also retained the obnoxious Land Used Decree forced down the peoples’ throats by these oppressive ethnic groups, which controlled the military then as a means of stealing oil and gas wealth from Niger delta. While the country claimed that military rule is gone these vexing and criminally intending laws operational are military. This implies the military isn’t gone, though the so-called president no longer wear starched military uniform.

Where none of the core boiling issues which would have reshaped the country and get everyone thinking of innovative ways to generate resources at regional level, where considerable autonomy (responsibility and accountability) is given by constituent and central agreement to secure true federalism aren’t resolved and the status quo remains as I predicted it will. Tell me what the public should come out to ensure the so-called opportunity granted isn’t lost?

Or is it the about 21 states illegally and unfairly created by the tripartite ethnic groups as a way to stealing oil money to develop themselves instead of using their “population” to create more for self reliance and stop being greedy and deadly for oil/gas money? Shockingly, the conference recommended more handicapped or disabled, physically challenged states to be created mostly in the oil dependent regions with the hope to using oil money to develop or pay workers while politicians steal the rest as the situation today.

This imbalanced states’ arrangement suggests Hausa-Fulani, Yoruba and Igbo ethnic groups are more ethnic or human than more than 300 other ethnic groups whereas they aren’t. It’s only in their ignorance and false understanding of ethnic group, despite clear and simple definition, federalism and democracy, freedom and equality and justice that their glorification of such concept or myth of being “major” or “majority” toughens, so deserves more, hence the special status.

Finally, the so-called conference already calls for another conference since it wasn’t convoked with the intention to making hard decisions and choices to solve serious issues, rather meant to calm down nerves and pave way for another 4 sad years that will witness gross incompetence, hyper-corruption and insecurity to Jonathan. What a waste; I pity the oppressed and poor of Nigeria.