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Aug 3 • 9 tweets • 2 min read
REASONS RESTRUCTURING, TRUE FEDERALISM or CONFEDERATION can't WORKOUT in NIGERIA

Today, southern leaders and youths are clamoring for restructuring, true federalism, or confederation because they have been marginalized, caged, subdued and relegated by the caliphate.
This is because any restructuring that protects the autonomy and interests of non-Caliphate Nigerians
will be unacceptable to a caliphate in power in Nigeria, and will be resisted by it. The Caliphate has
complete control over Abuja's administration.
Moreover, restructuring is still not in their permanent interest, as was announced long ago by the
Sardauna.
Mal. Abubakar Malami, Attorney General of the federation and Minister of Justice, now condemns the southerners leaders for demanding such a thing simply because
the system has been rigged to favor the
caliphate.
He challenged them to bring the subject up in front of the national legislature which is the same current
legislature that is a creation of the same rigged system.
The entire southern part of the country has a total of 169
members of the House of Representatives out of 360 in the national assembly, while the north has a total of 191 members.
Any amendment to the constitution must have the support of the majority, which is 240 out of 360
members of the House of Representatives.
How can the people of the southern part get the two thirds?
We can see why Abubakar Malami is speaking confidently, that the southerners should talk to their
representatives at the National Assembly to raise the issue of restructuring. Any motion that does not
favour the north,
they will not support it.
Therefore, it will not fly because they are the majority in the house. Likewise, in the Senate, the total
number of senators is 110, including one senator from FCT. The total number of senators from the entire
southern part of the country is 51, while
that of their northern counterparts is 58. Again, coming to the issue of two thirds.
A bill must receive the support of 73 senators in order to be passed in the Senate. Now, how can the south
get 2/3rd?
If you need additional local government, they will tell you they want
additional local government. If you
want more states, they will tell you they want more states.
We can now see clearly that we have entered one chance with these unscrupulous who are not productive
and hell bent to be scroungers.

Credit: Yoruba Gazette
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Aug 4
Since 1914 the British government has been trying to make Nigeria into one country but the Nigerian
people themselves are historically different in their background, religious belief and customs and do not
show themselves any sign or willingness to unite.
“Nigeria unity is only a British invention”. (Tafawa
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“The North would have preferred a separate political future, instead of being yoked with the South in
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Then, the north, displeased with the amalgamation,
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(A speech given in the Nigerian parliament by Sir Ahmadu Bello in 1952 was titled The Mistake of
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Aug 4
Alhaji Abubakar Tafawa Balewa questioned the notion of a unified Nigeria in 1948.

“Many Nigerians speak of unity. They are well too late about it. Many of them deceive themselves by thinking that Nigeria is one. This is wrong, particularly for some of the press people with the
chance of writing in papers to tell the whole world that this is one country.
When they lecture, they shout out that Nigerians are one people. This is wrong. When I look around
me in the council, I see honourable members from all parts of Nigeria sitting together,
and I am bound to feel some presence of unity. But I am sorry to say that the presence of unity is artificial and it ends outside this chamber." (Legislative Council Debates, 4 March 1948, p.227)
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Aug 4
Nigeria is a single country by accident. There are considerable social and political differences among
the numerous ethnic and tribal groups. They do not speak the same language and have completely
different cultures and lifestyles. They reflect a variety of cultural periods.
Nigerian leaders were well aware of these divisions, but they chose to fight for Nigeria's independence
as a unified front despite them. Even while the struggle for independence raged on, the schisms that they
and the British colonialists perceived were obvious.
Even when it is
obvious that this union will not yield positive results but they went on agitating for one
Nigeria while the caliphate who already conquered the Hausas are not interested in the union for fear of
being dominated.
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Aug 2
REASONS FOR THE AMALGAMATION:
Balance the Accounting Books
For economic factors
For the administrative efficiency of running two independent colonies.
Northern Nigeria was landlocked and lacked a coastline.
Northern Nigeria was not subjected to customs duties in the same way
that southern Nigeria was.
Northern Nigeria was able to import products duty-free from southern Nigeria, but the expense of getting them to southern Nigeria for export was similarly expensive.
A small percentage of southern Nigeria's customs earnings was allocated to
northern Nigeria. Because its revenue was insufficient to cover the expense of administration, the Northern Protectorate (Nigeria) had been running a budget deficit for ten years.
The colonial government attempted to balance the shortfall by using the budget surpluses of
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Aug 2
We can as well start from the beginning, how we were before amalgamation cause that's how it was meant to be. The GenZ's generation it is important you know your history.
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What really happened??
BEFORE THE AMALGAMATION
As early as 1898, the British considered combining the then three protectorates to reduce the administrative burden on the British and allow the rich South to effectively subsidize the much less economically prosperous north.
Northern Protectorate (Nigeria) had been running on a BUDGET DEFICIT for 10 years. Two Separate Countries Are Created in 1900
PROTECTORATE OF NORTHERN NIGERIA and the PROTECTORATE OF SOUTHERN NIGERIA. The Two countries were governed separately for 14 Years.
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