By Dr Orefo Nnamdi Onochie
It was a much anticipated day of judgement. For reasons best known to the Justices, the date was fast-forwarded, in order for it to precede, the date the United States of America’s, FBI, had indicated it would release hundreds of pages of possibly very damaging confidential information on Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s past life and personal history.
Tinubu was declared victorious in the 2023 Presidential election of Nigeria, held on February 18, 2023. Several revelations and accusations were made against him on money laundering, drugs convictions, identity theft, certificate and diploma forgeries, and presentation for the 2023 Presidential election, by Tinubu’ s adversaries in the 2023 Presidential election.
Much to the chagrin of the populace, the Supreme Court of Nigeria, exonerated Tinubu of all the charges listed against him, including rigging the elections through financially bribing the Election Commission Chairman and other senior officials: included also were Presidential Tribunal Judges whose disvowal of actual facts of irregularities during the Presidential election, commenced the national disenchantment following the initial declaration of victory in favor of Tinubu by the Election Commission. The myriad policy errors and ineptitude of Tinubu since assumption of office had placed a very negative and inadequate assessment of Tinubu’s standing with majority of the populace. In addition, high public expressions of illegitimacy and lack of acceptance rendered Tinubu’s current 148-days of governance a complete national debacle. Inflation and cost of living rose by more than 250%, cost of petrol rose by more than 325%, the national currency the Naira crashed in value against the US dollar from N420.00 to N1,350.00 / $1.00 US Dollar, on October 26, 2023.
In spite of this Crooks-ocracy, a government of Crooks, set up by Crooks, for other Crooks, and innocent citizens. The Supreme Court of Nigeria by its rendered judgment on October 26, 2023, in favor of Tinubu, nailed the final point on the coffin of Nigeria. I find defending and preserving the country a huge misnomer, which has led me to accept the notion that the country should be constitutionally dissolved, to enable smaller new republics to rise and solve the many complex problems of the entity that has eluded several prior governments.
Inevitability of abandoning NACOPPIN NIGERIA 2023
It is in light of all the foregoing that I now dedicate all my future political works and actions towards the constitutional emergence of a Confederation of Anioma Peoples and Territories, in no distant time, judging from my early calls for the constitutional Dissolution of Nigeria. My political efforts and works shall be under the auspices of the Onochie Political Action Conference (ONOPAC), which I set up and convened in July 2022. In the context of my membership of the PRP, I have opted to keep that membership in abeyance sine die. My loyalty to the political Party as an avowed member, and 2023 Presidential Aspirant, shall remain indelible and inestimable, as a mark of the highest consideration for the founding and subsisting members of the Party, whose membership I treasured, also as a 2023 Presidential Aspirant, from April 24, 2022, (when I withdrew from 23-years of membership of the PDP, and as a 2023 Presidential Aspirant, because they illegally jettisoned Zoning and Rotation of the Presidency), up to October 23, 2023.
The Tragedy of Nigeria
It must be most daunting to recount the history and tragedy of Nigeria. That trait arose as a result of the refusal of certain elites of the North and Southwest to factor in ethnicity and religion as the primary source of rash competition, favoritism, corruption and nepotism that fuels the instinct to overwhelm and DOMINATE, and to seek to perpetuate only their own groups in political power. No political entity that rejects devolution of power and participation to include all ethnic or religious groups, can sustain itself over a long period of time. That entity will be consumed by greed, corruption, favoritism and nepotism. Greed will breed the level of economic accumulationism currently strangulating the elite of business and politics in Nigeria. Sooner than later, the entity based on its dialectical dynamics will dissolve itself, and no force or person can stop it. The clearest example is the Soviet Union which existed from 1917 to 1991 (74-years): compared to Nigeria, of smaller territorial size, population, economic and military might, from 1914 to 2023 or thereabouts (109-years). If the Soviet Union was dissolved constitutionally, Nigeria with its ethnic and religious jingoisms, separatisms, endemic violence and imbalances, fueling DOMINATION by Muslims, Hausa-Fulani and Yorubas, will not last that much longer. We in Anioma, the Igbo-Odiani speaking areas West of the River Niger, reject and refuse to remain any longer in current Nigeria. We therefore urge all other ethnic nationalities to join in constitutional negotiations, totally devoid of violence, rancor or acrimony, to dissolve the corrupt, unmanageable, mostly hostile, ethnically unfriendly entity, amalgamated in 1914 by the British, which they called Nigeria. Tinubu, before now self-ascribed as the “last man standing”, may perhaps be the “last” presider over the affairs of only that geographic expression and territorial contraption set up by the British on both banks of the River Niger, until it emptied into the Niger Delta, and other adjoining adjacent hinterlands. Subsequently, I shall continue constitutional efforts to show by way of a draft Charter and Constitution, how the Confederation of Anioma Peoples and Territories shall be constitutionally set up to avoid the pitfalls of the current entity that they have been part of. The Supreme Court of Nigeria by its judgment of October 26, 2023, on the 2023 Presidential Election Tribunal Appeal, was the end of an epoch, and future events shall prove this assessment and assertion right and prophetic.
Signed: Dr. Orefo Nnamdi Onochie
Convener, Onochie Political Action Conference (ONOPAC).
