Wednesday, 11 December 2013

Nigeria’s Existence Will Expire On December 31, 2013, Will We Decide to Extend it?

A new test to Nigeria’s sovereign
status is in full play as Movement for
New Nigeria has stated its intention
to challenge the legality of the 1914
Amalgamation ordinance which gave
birth to the Nigerian state.
The amalgamation ordinance is expected
to expire on December 31, 2013, as MNN
is set to take a legal action to ensure
that a new union treaty was negotiated
and entered into by the various
nationalities that make up the country
known as Nigeria.
Participants at Vanguard Conference
Hall said the legal basis of Nigeria’s
existence will expire on December 31,
2013.
“We ought to agree either to extend it or
not. Yet some people are hoodwinking
Nigerians and drawing billions of naira to
prepare for a bash in a union that may not
exist beyond December 31, 2013.”
The Secretary General of MNN, Mr. Tony
Nnadi, said: “Contrary to the false
impression being peddled by some people
that “the basis of Nigeria’s unity is not
negotiable, we want to state categorically
that such assertions are wrong and
mischievous display of ignorance,
especially by those who feel that they are
benefiting from the illegal contraption of
the colonist and jihadist expansionists,
whose interests collided in the process of
the scramble for territories and resources,
belonging to Lower Niger Region.
When the 1914 Amalgamation Ordinance
was proclaimed, there was no evidence to
show that the people and the inhabitants of
the territory called Northern and Southern
protectorates were ever consulted to
discuss and consent to live together as
one country and under one constitution.
We have carried out extensive research
works in all leading British libraries and
beyond. We have not seen any document
supporting such action.”
He said the mission to Nigeria was to use
military power to intimidate and subdue
any resistance from the natives and to
use fear and ignorance to wield the
natives together.
These, he said, were far from an
altruistic motive to build a new nation
that will harness the energy and
resources of its people and territory to
develop into a prosperous nation.
He said: “As a military man, Lugard’s
mission to Nigeria on his posting from
India, was to ensure a military conquest of
the new country and to use force to quell
any rebellion that might arise from the
amalgamation ordinance, Nigerian
nationalists opposed all the constitutions
that came from 1914 to 1954, but the
British were smart as to keep the colonial
ordinance of amalgamation away from the
nationalists to avoid a possible legal
challenge and confrontation.”
He said while the idea of the
proposed national conference by the
Jonathan administration was
desirable and welcomed, the time
had come for Nigerians to take a
second look at the legal basis for the
existence of Nigeria as a corporate
entity.

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