Dr. Frederick Fasehun of the Oodua People’s Congress has recommended that some notable Nigerians and groups be drafted into the Sovereign National Conference.
Such Nigerians and groups, Fasehun said, should include dreaded sect, Boko Haram; Chief Security Officer to late General Sani Abacha, Major Hamza Al-Mustapha; and Nobel Laureate, Prof. Wole Soyinka.
This was even as he recommended that the SNC be convened for six months, from February to July 2014.
Such Nigerians and groups, Fasehun said, should include dreaded sect, Boko Haram; Chief Security Officer to late General Sani Abacha, Major Hamza Al-Mustapha; and Nobel Laureate, Prof. Wole Soyinka.
He explained that over the years, bottled-up emotions and frustrations in the country had been allowed to fester and that misguided repression accounted for the socio-political explosions, insurgencies, militancy and criminality that routinely occur nationwide.
He maintained that delaying the SNC had cost Nigeria much, adding that it accounted for the unnecessary loss of lives and insecurity the country suffers today.
According to Fasehun, the convening of the SNC will represent a giant step towards the resolution of not just the Nigerian Question, but also the violence, insurgency and insecurity currently ravaging Nigeria.
He said: “There’s so much agitation in the country, not just from ethic groups, but also from insurgent groups.
“There’s hardly any peaceful insurgency in this land.
“The country has been lucky in managing insurgency.
“But if we want to discuss insecurity, then the insurgent groups, which believe there is injustice in the land, should come and tell us why they are flexing muscles.
“Let’s listen to ourselves and proffer solutions.
“And if you think Al-Mustapha does not matter, we’re deceiving ourselves.
“Try and go to the North and you find out the truth.
“Let’s extend a hand of peace to everyone.
“We’re all Nigerians!
“The SNC is the last chance to save the Nigerian federation.
“Recently, agitations have been rife that since the 1914 Amalgamation of the Southern and Northern protectorates by Lord Lugard was originally billed to expire in 100 years, therefore the constituent units of the Nigerian entity could validly, legally and statutorily exit from Nigeria in 2014.
“It would have been a tacit fulfilment of the US prediction that Nigeria would not survive beyond 2015.
“Now the proposal by President Goodluck Jonathan has averted Nigeria’s Armageddon.
“If the SNC fails, then Nigeria’s ethnic nationalities can begin to make moves to exist as separate entities and nations within ECOWAS and we can kiss Nigeria goodbye peacefully
Such Nigerians and groups, Fasehun said, should include dreaded sect, Boko Haram; Chief Security Officer to late General Sani Abacha, Major Hamza Al-Mustapha; and Nobel Laureate, Prof. Wole Soyinka.
This was even as he recommended that the SNC be convened for six months, from February to July 2014.
Such Nigerians and groups, Fasehun said, should include dreaded sect, Boko Haram; Chief Security Officer to late General Sani Abacha, Major Hamza Al-Mustapha; and Nobel Laureate, Prof. Wole Soyinka.
He explained that over the years, bottled-up emotions and frustrations in the country had been allowed to fester and that misguided repression accounted for the socio-political explosions, insurgencies, militancy and criminality that routinely occur nationwide.
He maintained that delaying the SNC had cost Nigeria much, adding that it accounted for the unnecessary loss of lives and insecurity the country suffers today.
According to Fasehun, the convening of the SNC will represent a giant step towards the resolution of not just the Nigerian Question, but also the violence, insurgency and insecurity currently ravaging Nigeria.
He said: “There’s so much agitation in the country, not just from ethic groups, but also from insurgent groups.
“There’s hardly any peaceful insurgency in this land.
“The country has been lucky in managing insurgency.
“But if we want to discuss insecurity, then the insurgent groups, which believe there is injustice in the land, should come and tell us why they are flexing muscles.
“Let’s listen to ourselves and proffer solutions.
“And if you think Al-Mustapha does not matter, we’re deceiving ourselves.
“Try and go to the North and you find out the truth.
“Let’s extend a hand of peace to everyone.
“We’re all Nigerians!
“The SNC is the last chance to save the Nigerian federation.
“Recently, agitations have been rife that since the 1914 Amalgamation of the Southern and Northern protectorates by Lord Lugard was originally billed to expire in 100 years, therefore the constituent units of the Nigerian entity could validly, legally and statutorily exit from Nigeria in 2014.
“It would have been a tacit fulfilment of the US prediction that Nigeria would not survive beyond 2015.
“Now the proposal by President Goodluck Jonathan has averted Nigeria’s Armageddon.
“If the SNC fails, then Nigeria’s ethnic nationalities can begin to make moves to exist as separate entities and nations within ECOWAS and we can kiss Nigeria goodbye peacefully
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