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size-large wp-post-image\" alt=\"ABuja declaration: S\u002FWest leaders, ACF disagree with Igbo\" decoding=\"async\" srcset=\"https:\u002F\u002Fcdn.vanguardngr.com\u002Fwp-content\u002Fuploads\u002F2026\u002F03\u002FNDIGBO.png 313w, https:\u002F\u002Fcdn.vanguardngr.com\u002Fwp-content\u002Fuploads\u002F2026\u002F03\u002FNDIGBO-300x173.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 313px) 100vw, 313px\" \u002F>\n\u003Cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">•.as restructuring agitation resurfaces ahead of polls\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u003Cstrong>By Dayo Johnson, Dapo Akinrefon, Olasukanmi Akoni, Dickson Omobola, Rotimi Ojomoye, Deola Badru\u003C\u002Fstrong>\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Barely three months to the 2027 general elections, the controversy generated by the position of the Igbo Leaders of Thought, ILT, on the restructuring of Nigeria, yesterday, provoked mixed reactions from South-West and northern leaders, with some describing aspects of the proposal as unrealistic and capable of causing political destabilisation.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The ILT had rejected the communiqué issued at the Abuja restructuring conference of August 20, 2026, accusing the organisers of disregarding the position of the Igbo delegation.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The group proposed a 10-region political structure for Nigeria, with regional control of resources and regional police, while calling for the temporary suspension of the 2027 general elections pending the completion of the restructuring exercise.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The ILT also proposed an enlarged Igbo Region extending beyond the five South-East states, and called for the restructuring exercise to be completed before May 2027, after which elections would be conducted under a new constitutional arrangement.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The proposal has triggered a fresh debate over the structure of the Nigerian federation, the place of regionalism, the future of the existing 36-state arrangement, resource control, regional policing and the implications of delaying the 2027 elections.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Reacting to the development in chats with Sunday Vanguard, South-West and northern voices differed on the precise form restructuring should take, but several questioned the ILT’s approach and particularly its proposal to suspend elections.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u003Cstrong>Their position is unrealistic—Adejumo\u003C\u002Fstrong>\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Speaking on the matter, Mogaji Gboyega Adejumo, who led the South-West Zone to the Patriots Constitutional Conference in Abuja, said the position of the Igbo Leaders of Thought was unrealistic, arguing that the various ethnic groups in Nigeria appeared to be struggling to identify the precise solution to the country’s structural problems.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Adejumo, who took a swipe at the Igbo Leaders of Thought over some of their positions, said the confusion was not peculiar to the Igbo, but reflected a wider failure among Nigeria’s constituent groups to determine what they wanted from the Nigerian project.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He said: “What I can say is this, the Igbo are as confused as any. Most of the tribes in Nigeria are in that kind of situation of confusion, of knowing absolutely what next to do.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">“It could still be part of the main frustration coming out of the fact that no region, except perhaps the core North, is fully enjoying being in this contraption called Nigeria.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">“But again, to be critical and to be discretionary is to look at the whole matter of our coming together, unity, existence as a nation. It is faulty right from the beginning, we know.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Going down memory lane, Adejumo said several attempts had been made to resolve Nigeria’s structural problems, but without producing a lasting solution.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">“Many attempts have been made but nothing so concrete has come out,” he said.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">“Again, restructuring that has now been in the front burner for many years now is not new. It’s what the Action Group government started to do or had started to do since 1951, culminating in the 1953 London Conference. It is restructuring.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">“It is because the structure was disrupted in 1962, that is why we now say we want to restructure.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u003Cstrong>Igbo, Fulani\u003C\u002Fstrong>\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">According to him, the South-West proposal presented at the Patriots Constitutional Conference was not fundamentally different from some of the demands being made by the Igbo.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He said: “What exactly are the Igbo saying? They said they reject the recent attempt in Abuja. I was the leader of the South-West Zone that went to the Patriots Constitutional Conference in Abuja and we presented the South-West proposal.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">“Now, it is no different from what the South-West has always advocated for, which is not diametrically different from what the Igbo are saying.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">“The only thing that is different is that the Igbo seem to not know what exactly is the situation with our problem, where the trouble lies.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Adejumo argued that the fundamental issue was not simply the question of which region got what, but how the constituent parts of Nigeria could negotiate a workable political arrangement.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">“Between the Igbo and the Fulani, somehow the idea of coming into a union is not about the spread. It’s about what each other can get. It is not about making sure that everybody has got something but trying to corner whatever is left to themselves,” he said.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u003Cstrong>Awolowo, 1966 and 1979\u003C\u002Fstrong>\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Adejumo also went into the history of the relationship among the major ethnic groups, particularly the political choices made by the Igbo and Yoruba at different periods of Nigeria’s history.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He said: “1959 going towards 1960, the Igbo, rather than take the Prime Ministership, they decided to go into partnering with the North. Everybody didn’t bother to, in any way, begin to complain. We just went back to our shell and began to do our thing.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He also referred to the 1966 coup and the subsequent Civil War.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">“Same thing, well, the Civil War started and it was blamed on the Igbo on January 15, 1966. I’ve done many interviews ever before, but Ibrahim Babangida came out and said it was not an Igbo coup. It was not an Igbo coup.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">According to him, the political relationship between the Igbo and the North continued after the Civil War, including in the Second Republic.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">“But then, with all that the Igbo suffered in 1979, they still went back into an arrangement with the North, leaving the South West,” he said.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He recalled a statement attributed to the late Chief Obafemi Awolowo concerning the consequences of the secession of the Eastern Region.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">“Obafemi Awolowo said something. He said, whether by acts of omission or commission, if the Igbo are allowed to leave, then the Yoruba will not stay.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">“How is it that people just don’t understand that question? The Igbo determined that to mean that Awolowo promised the Igbo that he would leave.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">“Was Awolowo a soldier? Did he even have a gun? Was he the military head of the South West as at that time? Was he like an Ojukwu figure? Could he even declare anything beyond his household?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">“But what Awolowo was saying was simple. Nigeria stands on a tripod. The North, the South, and the East. If you allow the East to go, it will just be the North and the West. And that will be a disaster for the West.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">“We will never be able to grow. We will never be able to even breathe. So, it is better for the three of us to stand together, rather than for one part, the Igbo, to go and the Yoruba to suffer.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u003Cstrong>Choices\u003C\u002Fstrong>\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Adejumo said the political choices of the different groups over the years should inform the current restructuring debate rather than be used to deepen ethnic divisions.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He said the South-West had consistently pushed for restructuring, recalling the various constitutional conferences and political initiatives that preceded the current debate.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">According to him, the Yoruba position had evolved through the 1979-78 Constituent Assembly, the 1991 process associated with Alao-Aka Bashorun, the Abacha era and the 2014 National Conference.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">“Now, that will not happen. So, the Igbo had to stay. But in staying in 1979, what did they do? They teamed up with the North. The Yoruba didn’t complain.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">“Now, we have a situation where the Awolowo School of Thought, and everything that had always won over the South West, lost out to a new regime led by Bola Tinubu that took the Yoruba, for the very first time, to join with the North.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">“And all hell is let loose. But who are the people leading the charge that we must balance it? It’s the Yoruba.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Adejumo said the South-West delegation to the Patriots Conference did not depart substantially from the historical Yoruba demand for restructuring.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">“And when we went to that constitutional conference, of which I was the leader, we presented nothing short of what has been the confluence of all thoughts,” he said.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">“Right from 1953 to what we went to discuss in the 1979-78, Constituent Assembly, to the 1991 profound statement of Alao-Aka Bashorun, and that was where the idea of restructuring started afresh. 2004, 1999, Abacha and everything that they did, the Yoruba wanted out.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u003Cstrong>2014 Confab\u003C\u002Fstrong>\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He also criticised the political handling of the recommendations of the 2014 National Conference.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">“Now, let us now look at the 2014 CONFAB, which was largely a nefarious affair. But at the same time, we had perhaps the best of all that has happened since the 1963 constitution.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">“But Nigeria, in their wisdom, chose Buhari, who was never ever going to honour that 2014 CONFAB report, which gave everything to everyone. If you want regionalism, go for it. If you want statism, go for it.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Adejumo said the Yoruba position was not necessarily a return to the old regional arrangement in which all states within a geographical area would automatically be subordinated to one regional authority.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">“The Yoruba will always want regionalism, but along with statism. Because the Ondo man will say, I’m not going back to Ibadan. The Ekiti man will say, I’m not going back to Ibadan.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">“But the question I always tell them is, is Abuja nearer to you than Ibadan?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He also questioned the practicality of calls for a Yoruba nation.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">“Here we are, even within the Yoruba, some people are shouting for Yoruba nation. But where is the pathway? I don’t see it. Where will the boundaries be? Who will you sit down with? Who is the arbitrator?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">“Who is going to sit down with you and say, okay, this is the boundary between Yoruba land and the North, or the East, or even anywhere else? So, it was all a farce.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u003Cstrong>‘What exactly do the Igbo want?’\u003C\u002Fstrong>\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Turning specifically to the latest position of the Igbo Leaders of Thought, Adejumo questioned what he described as inconsistencies in the group’s demands.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">“Now, talking about what the Igbo have just put out. Is it any different from what was said at Aburi, that was rejected? You want resource control, you want this, you want that. You reject restructuring.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">“So, what exactly do you want?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He recalled his involvement with Afenifere and the formation of the Southern and Middle Belt Leaders Forum, SMBLF, saying efforts had been made to create a broad platform for the various southern and Middle Belt groups.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">“I was a spokesperson for Afenifere. I spent many years in Afenifere. But look at the way we wanted to even bring some kind of solution.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">“In 2017, we had the Yoruba Agenda spread all over again in the Ibadan Declaration. And we invited, well, the Ndi-Igbo in Ohanaeze, and the PANDEF of the South-South, and the Middle-Belt Forum. Come and see what we are doing.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">“So, we formed the Southern and Middle Belt Leaders Forum, SMBLF.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He said Afenifere’s independence from government was important to its position.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">“Afenifere, we are not affiliated to any government, any state government. Because he who pays the piper, dictates the tune.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">“We were doing our thing, and we could not be moved, we could not be influenced by any government, state, federal, or local.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u003Cstrong>‘Where is the mass movement?’\u003C\u002Fstrong>\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Adejumo also questioned the practical route to the creation of separate nations from Nigeria.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">“The only way you can create a nation out of any nation is by mass movement,” he said.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">“If the people rise and say this is it, and they are not relenting, most likely they are going to get it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">“Or there is a serious crisis, chaos, in which even the government is not existing anymore. Then you could create something out of something. Or perhaps by consensus, you all sat down and say, okay, now let us break up.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">“So, where is the mass movement now? Where is the crisis? Where is the chaos? So, why create nothing out of it? Why try to create something out of nothing?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He said the approaching election made it even more difficult to pursue such an agenda.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">“Everybody is focused on the election. This election, we don’t know what the outcome will be. But, even if there is going to be a recourse to something, it will have to be after the election.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">“It will have to be after that election.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Adejumo said the various groups should concentrate on achieving workable reforms rather than making demands that lacked a clear pathway to implementation.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u003Cstrong>‘Go back and think about Igbo liberation’\u003C\u002Fstrong>\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He advised the Igbo Leaders of Thought to reconsider their approach and build alliances with other groups.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">“So, in all of this, what is taking over? I don’t think we have conviction anymore in this country. I think what we have are personal interests, not even sectional interests.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">“So the Leaders of Thought should better go back and think very well about how the Igbo people can be liberated.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He said the Igbo needed to work with other groups rather than pursue a strategy in isolation.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">“Who is talking about him? It’s largely forgotten. So, what the Igbo need to do is go back to the drawing board and come up with something realistic and begin to liaise with other groups.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">“We have to understand what we want out of Nigeria.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Adejumo warned that separation itself did not automatically guarantee stability or prosperity.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">“Everybody is saying we want to go separate ways but if that is so easy and that will guarantee that each path will survive, what are the guarantees? I can see none.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">“I can only see Sudan that even after separation, there is a continuation of war. I can see Ethiopia and Eritrea but if we want the kind of separation that brought about USSR, fine, let’s walk towards that. That’s dialogue.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">“If we want to be like United States of America, it is still about dialogue.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He ultimately advocated negotiation among the various constituent groups.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">“So I would rather we choose a dialogue so that we can at least know that we can settle things amicably.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">“The Nigerian question is, where are we, all of us? Where are the Yorubas? Where are the Igbo? Where are the Middle-Elders? Where are the South-South? Where is the Core-North?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">“Are we exactly where we want ourselves to be? If the Yoruba said this is what we want, we want the maximum strength of us Yoruba to go and negotiate. Let the Igbo too come with their own. Do not leave anyone behind.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u003Cstrong>Regionalism will cause destabilisation — Afenifere\u003C\u002Fstrong>\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Pan-Yoruba socio-political organisation, Afenifere, also rejected the proposal for regionalism, warning that it could create fresh political instability, particularly in areas with significant minority populations.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">National Publicity Secretary of the group, Justice Faloye, said the organisation remained committed to the resolutions of the 2014 National Conference.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Faloye said: “Until another wider representative sovereign conference is held, Afenifere stands on the 2014 Confab Resolutions, made up with a wide and balanced delegation, which, after thorough deliberations, agreed on States as Federating Units.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">“The very reason Afenifere had to step down from regionalism is what transpired in Abuja, where the Igbo delegation accused Yorubas of backing Ijaws and walked out.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">“Regionalism will cause disaffection, especially in South-South and North Central regions. Regionalism will cause great political destabilization that will arise from allocating states and ethnicities to regions from above.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">“Nigeria is made up of 371 ethnicities, so how do we allocate them to regions for representative governance?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Faloye said the 2014 Conference had already provided an alternative approach.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">“At the Confab, it was agreed that states with the same ethnicity that want to amalgamate into one region are free to do so, if voted for amongst themselves.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">“It was also agreed that ethnicities in local governments are free to vote to join neighbouring states.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">“This will make the whole process bottoms up whereby people can decide their representation from local governments upwards, and not a top down approach whereby peoples are allocated to arbitrary regions from the Federal Government downwards.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He described imposed regionalism as problematic.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">“Regionalism is at best internal colonization, and at worst, a diversionary tactic by those that don’t want to do anything but to derail real restructuring.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u003Cstrong>Afenifere: ‘We stand by 2014 Confab’\u003C\u002Fstrong>\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Secretary General of Afenifere, Chief Ademola Folarin, said the organisation was not part of the Abuja conference and had not changed its position on the 2014 Confab.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Folarin said: “Afenifere was not part of the Abuja Conference.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">“The position of Afenifere has not changed from the one established by the 2014 Confab, where duly accredited representatives of Nigerian nationalities, by consensus, passed 600 resolutions.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">“The resolutions included the retention of federal\u002Fstate structure, with the possible creation of more states to accommodate minorities.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">“With the states having the power and right to merge or de-merge through a well established constitutional process. The creation of regions was jettisoned, essentially to protect minorities.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He said the conference had also advocated substantial devolution of powers.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">“It was also resolved that more powers should be devolved to the STATES, including policing, mining, local government and so on and so forth. The proceedings and resolutions of the 2014 are well documented.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">“Afenifere stands by them, until the duly accredited representatives of the nationalities meet to vary them.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u003Cstrong>Restructuring must be by consent— Omololu\u003C\u002Fstrong>\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Convener, Conscience of Yoruba Nation Group, Apagun Kole Omololu, however, supported restructuring into autonomous regions, but insisted that the process must be based on the consent of the communities concerned.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Omololu said the South-West position was clear in supporting autonomous regions within a voluntary, inclusive and cooperative federal system.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He said: “The South-West position is clear: we support the restructuring of Nigeria into autonomous regions within a voluntary, inclusive and cooperative federal system based on the consent of the people.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He warned that the historical fears of Nigeria’s minority nationalities must not be ignored.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">“The fears of minority nationalities were sufficiently serious in the late colonial period to lead to the establishment of the Willink Commission in 1957 to investigate their fears and safeguards.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">“The Commission acknowledged that many of those fears were justified, although it did not recommend the creation of autonomous regions for the minority areas.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">“The fact that the minority question has remained unresolved in different forms since then demonstrates an important principle: restructuring must not merely replace one form of domination with another.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">According to him, every constituent community must have confidence that its interests would be protected.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">“If Nigeria is to be restructured into autonomous regions, every constituent community must have confidence that its identity, culture, language, political rights and legitimate economic interests will be protected.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">“A region should not become a new centre from which one group exercises control or domination over other constituent peoples.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">“This is why the principle of restructuring by consent is fundamental,” he added.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u003Cstrong>Communities\u003C\u002Fstrong>\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Omololu said the Igbo Leaders of Thought should engage communities they wanted included in their proposed region.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">His words: “If the Igbo Leaders of Thought believe that particular states or communities should constitute an Igbo Region, we encourage them to engage those states and communities and obtain their freely expressed consent.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">“Where the people of the proposed constituent areas agree to belong to such a region, and the constitutional requirements for its establishment are satisfied, there should be no controversy arising merely from the identity of the proposed region.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">“The same principle must apply to every other proposed region.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">“The South-West does not seek to determine for the people of the South-East, Middle Belt, North, South-South or any other part of Nigeria where they should belong.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">“Equally, no other group should determine the political identity or regional affiliation of communities in the South-West without their consent.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Omololu said the most important questions were not whether Nigeria should have 10 regions, 17 regions or another number.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">“The more fundamental questions are:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">“Who decides? The Citizens or a group of leader?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">“What do the people concerned want?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">“Are the proposed boundaries contiguous and viable?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">“Do the constituent communities freely consent to the arrangement?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">“What constitutional safeguards will protect minorities within each region?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He said Nigeria’s experience showed that a durable federation must protect both regional autonomy and the rights of constituent communities.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">“The proposed autonomous regions should consequently be understood as federations of communities, cooperating with one another and with a Federal Government whose powers are limited to those agreed upon by the federating regions,” he submitted.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Omololu said the process should not be seen as an attempt to undermine any nationality.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">“The Concerned Citizens Assembly, we understand is a citizen-centric process and not a project against any nationality. It is an attempt to engage the citizens in creating a constitutional arrangement in which no nationality, region or community needs to fear domination by another.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">“We therefore welcome dialogue with all groups genuinely committed to restructuring Nigeria. Different proposals should be placed before the Nigerian people, examined openly and negotiated peacefully,” Omololu added.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u003Cstrong>No to democratic\u003C\u002Fstrong>\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u003Cstrong>vacuum —Adeniran\u003C\u002Fstrong>\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">On his part, National Chairman of the Centre for Anti-Corruption and Open Leadership, CACOL, and President of the Committee for the Defence of Human Rights, CDHR, Mr. Debo Adeniran, said the development was significant because it exposed a deeper problem in Nigeria’s restructuring debate.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">According to him: “There may be growing agreement that the present federal arrangement needs reform, but there is still no consensus on what the replacement should look like.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">“The rejection by the Igbo Leaders of Thought, ILT, should not simply be dismissed as another ethnic disagreement.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">“It is a reminder that any attempt to restructure Nigeria must be based on genuine consultation, consensus and the consent of the people concerned.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He warned, however, that restructuring must not become a competition for territorial advantage.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">“At the same time, every ethnic or regional constituency must recognise that restructuring cannot become a competition for territorial advantage.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">“The proposal by the ILT for a 10-region structure, including a proposed enlarged Igbo Region extending beyond the five South-East states, inevitably raises questions about boundaries, the wishes of affected communities and the rights of minorities.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Adeniran said such questions must be resolved through transparent processes.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">“Those questions must be resolved through transparent dialogue and, where necessary, referendums not through historical claims, political pressure or demographic strength.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u003Cstrong>Election suspension worries Adeniran\u003C\u002Fstrong>\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">On the proposal to temporarily suspend the 2027 elections, Adeniran said it was arguably the most consequential aspect of the ILT position.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He said: “This proposal deserves serious public debate rather than either immediate endorsement or outright dismissal.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">“A suspension of elections would have profound constitutional and democratic implications. It would therefore require a clearly defined legal framework, broad national agreement, an explicit timetable, institutional safeguards and mechanisms preventing a transitional arrangement from becoming indefinite.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He warned against creating another governance problem in the process of trying to solve the existing one.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">“Nigeria must not replace one governance problem with another. Restructuring should deepen democracy, not create a democratic vacuum.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Adeniran also said there was merit in putting fiscal federalism and security architecture at the centre of the national conversation.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He said the most important lesson from the disagreement was that Nigeria’s restructuring debate had moved beyond the question of whether restructuring was necessary.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">“The most important lesson from the disagreement is that Nigeria’s restructuring conversation has finally moved beyond the question of whether restructuring is necessary to the much harder question of what restructuring should actually mean.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u003Cstrong>ILT is speaking for no one— Ekujumi\u003C\u002Fstrong>\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Giving his perspective, public analyst and human rights advocate, Comrade Nelson Ekujimi, was more dismissive of the ILT position, describing it as an exercise in free speech without a broader mandate.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He said: “This Umbrella of Igbo Leaders of Thought, ILT, are merely exercising their fundamental human rights to free speech and to aggregate an opinion on an issue, nothing more, their agitations are mere grandstanding and seeking to excite oneself.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">“They are free to continue to hallucinate like we always witness groups or organizations indulge in, when elections is knocking on the door, nothing more.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">“They are speaking for no one, but themselves and their self-interest, Nigerians are not amused by this theatrics from this group.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Differing, President of Yoruba Council Worldwide, His Royal Majesty, Aare Sooko Oladotun Hassan, took a different position, arguing that Nigeria had reached a critical stage where restructuring could no longer be treated as an issue to be postponed whenever elections were approaching.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Hassan said: “I strongly believe that Nigeria has reached a critical point in its political history where the question of restructuring can no longer be treated as a matter of political convenience, ethnic bargaining or an issue to be postponed whenever elections are approaching.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">“The country cannot continue to recycle an unjust and over-centralised federal arrangement and expect a different outcome. What Nigeria needs at this moment is genuine political restructuring that will give every constituent region a sense of belonging, ownership and responsibility in the Nigerian project.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He said the position of the Igbo Leaders of Thought deserved national attention, particularly because of the allegation that the views of the Igbo delegation had not been adequately reflected in the Abuja communiqué.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">“The position expressed by the Igbo Leaders of Thought on the Abuja restructuring conference communiqué of August 20, 2026, deserves serious national attention.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">“No meaningful restructuring discussion can be built on exclusion, selective representation or the deliberate disregard of the contributions of any ethnic nationality.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u003Cstrong>Negotiating table\u003C\u002Fstrong>\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Hassan urged all sides to return to the negotiating table.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">“If representatives of a major constituent group believe that their position was ignored, the appropriate response should be to return to the negotiating table, address their grievances and build a consensus that genuinely reflects the interests of all Nigerians.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Hassan said Nigeria’s challenge was not its diversity but the manner in which the country had managed its diversity.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">“I have consistently maintained that Nigeria’s greatest challenge is not its diversity but its failure to manage that diversity through a fair and equitable political structure.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">“We cannot continue to pretend that the present arrangement is working when insecurity, poverty, unemployment, political instability and the struggle over resources continue to threaten our national cohesion.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">On the 10-region proposal, Hassan said it deserved national debate, particularly its proposals for regional control of resources and regional policing.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">“The proposal for a 10-region political structure, with regional control of resources and regional police, is an idea that deserves open, honest and comprehensive national debate.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">“The regions must have the authority to develop their economies, harness their natural resources and determine their development priorities without excessive dependence on the Federal Government.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">“A system in which every region is compelled to look towards Abuja for survival cannot deliver genuine federalism.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u003Cstrong>Regional policing must have safeguards\u003C\u002Fstrong>\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Hassan also backed decentralised policing but cautioned against abuse.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">“I am particularly convinced that state and regional policing must become a central component of Nigeria’s security reforms.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">“It is unreasonable to expect a highly centralised security architecture to effectively address the peculiar security challenges of communities spread across a vast and diverse country.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">“Those who understand the terrain, culture, language and security dynamics of their communities should have a meaningful role in protecting them, subject to constitutional safeguards, accountability and respect for human rights.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He added: “However, regional policing must not become an instrument of political intimidation or ethnic persecution.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">“There must be clear constitutional provisions to prevent abuse, protect minorities and guarantee the rights of every Nigerian, irrespective of their ethnic or religious background.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u003Cstrong>Suspended\u003C\u002Fstrong>\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">On the proposal to suspend the 2027 elections, Hassan urged caution, saying restructuring and democracy should not be presented as mutually exclusive.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">“On the proposal for the temporary suspension of elections until the restructuring exercise is completed, I believe this aspect requires the greatest caution.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">“Restructuring is urgent, but democracy must not be unnecessarily suspended or used as a bargaining instrument.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">“Any transition must be founded on constitutional legitimacy, broad national consensus and clearly defined timelines. Nigerians must not be denied their democratic rights under the guise of pursuing a better political arrangement.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He said the approaching elections should not be used as an excuse to abandon the restructuring question.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">“I do not subscribe to the argument that the 2027 general elections should become an excuse to abandon the restructuring question.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">“Elections and restructuring must not be presented as mutually exclusive national priorities.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Hassan also cautioned against reducing the restructuring debate to ethnic rivalry.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">“I also wish to emphasise that restructuring is not an Igbo project, a Yoruba project, a Hausa project or the exclusive ambition of any ethnic nationality. It is a Nigerian project.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">“The interests of the South-East, South-South, North-Central, North-West, North-East and every other constituent part of Nigeria must equally be recognised.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">“No ethnic nationality should be made to feel that its future is dependent on the goodwill of another. No region should be permanently disadvantaged by a political arrangement that concentrates power and resources at the centre.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He called on President Bola Ahmed Tinubu, the National Assembly, political parties, traditional rulers, socio-cultural organisations and other stakeholders to treat the restructuring debate with urgency.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">“The Federal Government must provide an inclusive platform where the various positions can be harmonised and translated into actionable constitutional reforms.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">“The Igbo leaders must also be given the opportunity to fully present their position, just as the Yoruba, Hausa, Middle Belt, Niger Delta and other interest groups must have their voices heard. We cannot build a united country by silencing legitimate disagreements.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Hassan concluded: “My position is simple: Nigeria needs a new and fairer federal compact.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">“We need a country where the regions can breathe, develop and compete; where security is closer to the people; where resources are managed with responsibility; and where every ethnic nationality has a genuine stake in the federation.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u003Cstrong>War\u003C\u002Fstrong>\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">However, disagreeing with the Igbo leaders, spokesperson for Arewa Consultative Forum, ACF, Prof Tukur Baba, said: “The call for the postponement of the election is not in the constitution. The circumstances under which elections can be postponed, delayed or whatever is clearly stated in the constitution in the case of war or civil unrest and so on and so forth. The constitution clearly states what and how it should be done. The call is therefore not constitutional. We cannot postpone elections. On restructuring, it has nothing to do with the elections with the current structure. The National Assembly has just gone through a process of constitutional changes. Although the details have not been made public, the position of the National Assembly has been transmitted to state assemblies and that is what the constitution says.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">“None of the state assemblies has come out of the 36 states in the federation. To the best of our knowledge, none of the 36 states have come out to say, this is, this is what I propose, this is our position and so on. We will be shooting in the dark.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">“For anything to happen, it has to conform to the constitution for now. When the National Assembly started its constitutional review process, the ACF put together a group of experts and we made a comprehensive recommendation to the National Assembly in writing. I remember one of the recommendations we made and I repeat is that certain parts of the constitution should be expunged. For example, the preamble that says, this is one divisible nation, indivisible. We recommended that it should be expunged.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">“Something related to what the group is calling is that we say, well the constitution should as far as possible make room for any constituent element of the federation that want to secede. They may want to go away and so on. So, but we don’t know whether the recommendation we made has been accepted, rejected or modified. So, we cannot say much about it. But regarding the group itself, the group is not a constitutional group. It has no power to legislate or to dictate.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">“This is a responsibility for their representatives in the National Assembly. While it is their right and it is the right of every Nigerian to make recommendations on what they think is the way forward for the federation. But this has to be done within what we have the constitutional provisions.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">“As un-ideal, as defective as they are, this is what we have.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">“We don’t know that any group, North, West, South and East, has any power to halt elections, to halt the political process or to demand that the federation must be uh restructured in accordance with their wish when and how.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">“I think it’s a bit arrogant to just come out of a country with 36 states, with over 400 ethnic groups, with various religious followings, with all the diversity that we have for one group to come and hold a brief and hold the nation back on behalf of everyone else.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u003Cstrong>Negotiations\u003C\u002Fstrong>\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">“I think if anything is going to be done in the way the group is responding, and it is a non-governmental group, it has to be through negotiation, consultation and give and take within constitutional means.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">“While they have a right to protest, they have a right to make demands, but these demands have to take into consideration the rights of others. The only way we can do that is through constitutional provision.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">“I will suggest that the group may wish to take their demand to those states that apply to them, since the state assemblies are making recommendations which will go back to the National Assembly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">“I think the right place to go is to go back to the state assemblies and let’s see the way forward from there.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u003Cstrong>It amounts to selfishness – OPC\u003C\u002Fstrong>\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Meanwhile, speaking on behalf of the Yoruba socio-cultural organisation, Oodua People’s Congress (OPC) Worldwide, its Deputy National Secretary, Otunba Babatunde Thompson, said: “It’s very surprising that some amorphous group, tagging itself Igbo Leaders of Thought, will reject the present framework of six geopolitical developmental regions that is fast becoming accepted and institutionalised in the country’s socio-political environment and has served adequately as the administrative basis for organising the country’s 36 states.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">“Ironically, recognised Igbo leaders like the Second Republic Vice President, Alex Ekwueme, joined other eminent Nigerians to propose this six-region structure. And their visionary move has indeed helped to settle some fundamental issues relating to the structuring of the country.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">“Every of the six regions should be in control its own resources, while contributing to the Centre Abuja. This is what the Founder of the Oodua People’s Congress, Dr. Frederick Fasehun clamoured for: restructuring and resource control, and that is the agenda that this present crop of OPC leaders will queue behind.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">“Moreover, this so-called Igbo Leaders of Thought coming up with the vulgar idea of suspending the 2027 elections amounts to complete selfishness and insensitivity.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">“We say no in totality to their backward and retrogressive suggestion.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">“These look like people who don’t believe in their region’s growth and find it very difficult to bring their own region together as one.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">“However, we shall continue to insist that Nigerians do not yet have a people-created Constitution because the 1999 document we carry today was handed to us by the 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A resident of Kubwa, Fatima Muhammad, told DAILY POST that the blackout had affected her household and baking business. She said she had run out of water […]\nAbuja residents lament prolonged blackout, landlords plan protest","\u003Cimg width=\"1200\" height=\"675\" src=\"https:\u002F\u002Fdailypost.ng\u002Fwp-content\u002Fuploads\u002F2019\u002F08\u002F344F7AD4-7A27-43CC-AA83-DE8BBEF150ED.jpeg\" class=\"webfeedsFeaturedVisual wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" style=\"display: block; margin: auto; margin-bottom: 5px;max-width: 100%;\" link_thumbnail=\"\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https:\u002F\u002Fdailypost.ng\u002Fwp-content\u002Fuploads\u002F2019\u002F08\u002F344F7AD4-7A27-43CC-AA83-DE8BBEF150ED.jpeg 1200w, https:\u002F\u002Fdailypost.ng\u002Fwp-content\u002Fuploads\u002F2019\u002F08\u002F344F7AD4-7A27-43CC-AA83-DE8BBEF150ED-300x169.jpeg 300w, https:\u002F\u002Fdailypost.ng\u002Fwp-content\u002Fuploads\u002F2019\u002F08\u002F344F7AD4-7A27-43CC-AA83-DE8BBEF150ED-1024x576.jpeg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \u002F>\n\u003Cp>Residents of parts of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Abuja, have lamented days of power outages, saying the situation has disrupted businesses, water supply and other daily activities.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp>A resident of Kubwa, Fatima Muhammad, told DAILY POST that the blackout had affected her household and baking business.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp>She said she had run out of water because she could not power her pumping machine, while some of her baked products had spoilt due to the lack of electricity.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp>Muhammad said the outage had caused her financial losses and made it difficult to carry out her daily activities.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp>Other residents have also taken to social media to express frustration over the prolonged power interruption and the response of electricity distribution authorities.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp>A user on X, Peace Kanu PIAK, said her area in Dutse had been without electricity for two days before she came across an update on the situation.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp>“Thank you for the information. However, be informed that my area, Dutse, has not had electricity for the past two days, and we just got your update here. Please, TCN technical team should accelerate the restoration process,” she wrote.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp>Another user, Christian, criticised the Abuja Electricity Distribution Company (AEDC), saying residents had endured five days without power.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp>“If your team put the same energy into being proactive and ensuring our complaints are resolved as you do into updating us, this five-day absence of light would have been sorted out,” the user said.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp>A user identified as Nazeerah said residents of Area 8, Garki, had been without electricity for three weeks.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp>“We haven’t had electricity for three weeks now. Very, very unfair and overwhelming,” she wrote.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp>Another user, BLVCKK, complained that customers paying for Band A electricity were not receiving a consistent power supply.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp>“We pay for B and A, and you guys are stylishly giving us one day in, one day out. It is becoming a pattern. I believe this isn’t faults anymore, but rationing,” the user said.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp>Dane Doug, another user on X, also expressed frustration over the blackout.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp>“Freezers are freezing, but there is no light across all the major areas of the FCT,” the user wrote.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp>Similarly, Mark Itsibor lamented the prolonged outage in Bwari, the Nigerian Law School area, Ushafa, Bmuko and Dutse, accusing the electricity authorities of failing to address the situation.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp>“What kind of hell have you subjected most Abuja residents to in the last one week? Why are you so careless? There has been no light in Bwari, Law School, Ushafa, Bmuko and the entire Dutse for days,” he said.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp>DAILY POST gathered that landlords’ associations in Ushafa, Dutse and Kubwa are planning a protest for Monday if the power situation remains unchanged.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp>Meanwhile, the Transmission Company of Nigeria (TCN), in a statement on Wednesday, announced a planned interruption of electricity supply in parts of Abuja to enable it to carry out maintenance at its 132\u002F33kV Kubwa Substation.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp>“Consequently, the Abuja Electricity Distribution Company (AEDC) will be unable to offtake electricity supply to customers in Kubwa, Bwari, Army Resettlement, parts of Dutse Alhaji and adjoining areas during the maintenance period,” TCN said.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp>Also, AEDC on Friday informed customers in parts of the FCT that the disruption they were experiencing was caused by a technical fault on TCN’s 330kV Shiroro-Katampe transmission line.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp>In a notice posted on its X handle, the distribution company listed Garki, parts of Apo, Asokoro, Wuse Zones 1 and 2, Wuye, Jabi, Utako, Jahi, Life Camp, Gwarinpa, Kubwa, Dawaki, Dutse, Dei-Dei, Suleja and adjoining areas among the affected locations.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp>AEDC said TCN’s technical team was working to fix the fault and restore stability to the national grid.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp>The company assured customers that electricity supply would be restored to all affected areas once the transmission line was cleared.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp>The development comes weeks after the Minister of Power, Joseph Tegbe, said some electricity consumers had asked him to slow down following improvements in power supply.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp>Speaking at the commissioning of a three-megawatt solar hybrid power project at the University of Abuja in September, Tegbe said some areas that previously went without electricity for months were now receiving up to 18 hours of supply.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp>“Places that didn’t have light at all for three months are now having 18 hours of light. Some areas called me to say, look, I should slow down, that everything in their freezer is freezing,” he said.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp>He responded that freezers were designed to keep food frozen.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp>“That is what a freezer is meant to do. 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