Do You Mean Aristocratic ?

By

Comrade Sylvester I.Ukusare

nanndn@yahoo.co.uk

It baffles me to have heard that a segment of the Nigerian landscape have been arrogating to  itself as the anointed group that has the advantaged to manage the governmental affairs of the nation without letting up thus they concluded it as their birthright.

Therein, the contention is preposterous and needed a systematic review since our constitution is not  identified with the dominion system of government whereby it’s privileged with the unwritten constitution of which it is not part of our practiced charter but rather we’re practising a written constitution coupled with amalgamated 1914 accord of the north and south pole of the country that was borne out from federalism ideology.

As ones could infer from the indication above, it simply referred us to the aristocratic class that mainly features in imperial governmental system which is exemplify with a particular family, tribe nor race, hereditarily advantaged to rule a society through the process of rotational  biologically related roots and so without been part of this group, you can’t be channel to the government affairs of the country.

This sort of arrangement in a modern society is laughable and uncomfortable since it is not associated with the contemporary trend of public management that essentially envelopes with democratic principles that's why it is of the high spirits of egocentric and supercilious composition that the modern generation detested.

Subsequently, the Queen Amine’s seven children otherwise known as the Hausa/Fulani lineage of the northern states, should not appropriate  imprecise absolute right to rule Nigeria ceaselessly since it was never a promise to the country’s incorporation agreements of the 1914 marshal order.

In respect to the case in point and for the sake of peace and long-lasting unity, we should be reasonable to ourselves by abstaining from the uncompromising attitude of irreducible and espouse the tenets of a true civilized society that is manned with democratic arrangements coupled with civil norms such as the fundamentalism of human legacy vis-à-vis the rules of law with the status quo clauses that guides the perspective of communal brotherhood.

                            SOUTH-SOUTH QUEST FOR THE PRESIDENCY

This has been one among the quest we’ve been struggling to realised for so long now but due to it sonorous outlook we are faced with foggy certainty of which was obstructed with shoddy characteristics by its peeved and mediocrity representatives purposely for seductive vices such as insatiability for wealth and the lust for power that was simultaneous cemented to corruption.

This was why most of our leaders, are sell out of the region up till date, because they are not visionable neither  focusable to realise any tangible project for the expanse but these unpatriotic attributes are not enough for a section to be deleted from her fundamental rights, as one of the leading  stakeholders in the country. Therefore, it is wrong for us to be reduced to the state of a second best status in the nation that we’re the highest contributors to the economic survival as well as the sustainers to her socio political harmony and so with the unity and progress.

The history of this great country has survived turbulent times as a result of coups and civil war, through the honest sacrifice of the people of this region from time immemorial and so far a segment of the union don’t attests to the reality of the humble services provided by the natives of the Niger Delta, rather than, they assumed us to be cowards the same as the down trampled status of the society hence they believed that the oil resources in our homeland as to be their personal property for sake that we’re the minority group’s, and as a result we don’t have say to our personal property, neither, we can as well contest it.

These are the South-South quandary and fiasco that are yet to be addressed.                         Although, the photo format aspect to this misfortune is due to our totally loyalty and confident on the treaty of the Nigeria union  of the 1960/63 editions that we sees as  futuristic optimistic but in the mid-way we’ve be taken as fools and sheep’s without shepherd conceivably for the brain drain colonial mentality that encompasses the endemic corruptive virus that had already eaten deep in the blood of our royal and political leaders, above and beyond, this wont give the ample opportunity and advantage for the northern section of the country to claim victory over us hence the youths in the South-South have taken the drive by seeking solution to correct the blankness of nonchalantness attitude by our fathers to had failed to involved in the management affairs of the nation as well as with the welfare of their children.

Nevertheless, despite the provocative statement’s by Gov Kure of Niger state that referred the South-South as the underdogs of the country but we still win through in education, skilful and in the civilized section of the society, of course we’re not being perturbed with their arrogant and derogatory statements for the reason that we are above such kiddish and ridiculous manifestations that's why our leaders intentionally decided to focussed on the project to actualise the presidency task toward 2007 as a give and take exercise or else we need to hold the bull by the horns so not to escape us.

So far, despite all he vaporous tricks by the north to divert us from realising the onerous assignment, we’re still determined to push further with all possibilities available at our disposal as to see that the daydream of grabbing the presidency come to reality .

                       THE SHORTCOMINGS OF THE SOUTH-SOUTH

Although, even with the allegation that the South South subjects fumbles with their moral values through the massive support for the demise third term project that was purportedly meant for tenure elongation of the incumbency government, however, we categorically dismissed this fact since the grassroots populace were ignorant of the truce by their leaders to had given their absolute supports to the satanic fête which they unequivocally refuted and had exempted them from demonstrating themselves as the legal representatives of the Niger Delta region, accordingly, it’s not only the natives of this section that supported the ploy, nevertheless it’s integrated amid the entire country’s geo-political divisions, as result, such accusation is nothing but a waterloo similarly it’s very spiteful  as to proof its total loyalty.

 Therefore, as with respect to the above contestation as for we to be au fait with the belief of a federated state,  we needs to identify ourselves and imbibe with the impetus of egalitarian principles such as the rule of law, checks and balances, equal opportunity, a true fiscal federalism on equity foundation such  has been practiced in developed nations of the globe and this will buttress the optimism of the middle class through the method of a truly democratic state except, if the contrary seizes on beside by giving sectarian and sectional arrangement a continuous priority in the government under the masquerade of a democratic context, in consequence it stand the chance of disintegrating the founding pillars of our cherished nation.

As related with the structural syntax of good governance, consequently we needed the iota of a populist ideology to balance the imbalance governmental formation as with special regard to the presidency office wherein a fragment of the society are not advantaged to the position, especially the minority ethnic nationalities group of the South-South, thereby a segment particularly the north, acclaims it as a birth rights to unendingly hang on to the presidency and hence the southerners are now clamouring for a far-reaching and comfortable construction of the government such like a “True Federalism” process in progress with a Parliamentarian approach that will finally tackle the imbalance question such as marginalisation  of a sector being referred as colonies in a uniformed state.

For the time being, our zillion’s down-to-earth leader of the South-South and the Ijaw national chairman Chief Edwin Kiagbodo Clark, also, a one time minister of information came out from the silence openly to attack critics from the northern axis, indicating their statements to be belittling and syndromatically  provocative against the good people of the South-South region, furthermore they indicated that the Niger Deltans are not competent to preside to rule the nation, they also soiled the political air by indicating that the S/South lacks the moral to rule the state but the Ijaw chief told those evil archers that they are premature and not strong enough to ward off the peoples ambition for the presidency. He emphasised on the golden reasons why a South-South native cannot be negated from realising the presidential quest as a result he bombarded the northerners by saying they don’t contribute any good to the physical health of the nation such as its economic sustenance, he berated them by telling them that they should be making mistakes by claiming the presidency as their birthright and he also attacks them for making such unguided statements that the oil resources belongs to the north thus he cautions them of the arrogances and intolerance, he urged them to curtail their statements since the nation belongs to all the segments that composed its formation.

Accordingly, it’s imperative that both the majority and minority ethnic nationalities groups should uphold the democratic principles that presides with harmonious relationships within it stakeholders as a benchmark to peace, justice, equality and fair play, as to let the afflict lies in furtherance to contemplate the cordially of awarding the presidency slot to the South South people.

                                                     THE BAKASSI DILEMA

Just as is necessary, of course, it’s equally a distressed atmosphere to have noted the weakness of  the OBJ administration for had disappointed the natives confidence for not defending the sovereignty of his ancestry territory instead he compromised with the appellant party and ceded the peninsula to the Cameroonian authority under the tutelage of the IJC verdict that was passed in 2002, although, the believed decision by the court at Hague in Netherlander  was controversially contested by the natives and Nigeria  because the subject was clouded with insufficient substantiality, thus the process to the ruling was suspected with a defective foundation.

As would be recalled, the indigenes of this island  originally belongs to the Efik cultural nationalities group of the Cross Rivers state in  the Niger Delta bloc and eventually in the South-South geo-political region of the federal government of Nigeria. Hence the entire South-South are contending the legitimacy behind the shifting of their ancestry territorial land property to the republic du Cameroon without the proper approval of the natives nay the region through the index of a plebiscite nor a referendum to examine it conditions as well as the psychological predicament of the locals.

On the other hand, the impasse of the Bakassi peninsula is tantamount to the predicament of the Niger Deltans and the entire South-South region therefore the current dispensations should be cautious not to underrate the question of the peninsula because it will eventually looms to calamity in the nearest future that will threaten the unity of the federated states of Nigeria, and so the government is advised to take a prompt action to annul it signatory that5 ceded the Bakassi island to its neighbouring country merely for the sake of international peace which does not exist in any nation in the modern world nay the medieval periods  Thereupon, there are  so many borderline brawl in the world landscape yet  unresolved, of course a special example of this is the lingering Israeli and Palestinian territorial land dispute, even no country obey the UNO court verdicts on land nor boundary disputes around the world, and so, Mr. President should attempt to prevail afreshly to oppose the judgement for had awarded the peninsula to the administrative jurisdiction of the Cameroonian government and we expect that Chief Olusegun Obasanjo will repossess  his mental state for the unguided swift decision  as to re-contest  the court incompetence to pass ruling to such a legal mêlée that has been  in persistent for at least 45 years now .                                                                             

Subsequently, Mr. President should restore his integrity by saving the situation in the island  not to escalate to national catastrophe thereby in the end will boomerang to him in a short while.

In the meantime, as subjected to the above disciplines, our government is advised to adhere to these prayers and advises in the course of sharp interventions that would be judiciously composed so as to seek  a final solution to the South-South burning desire for it to ascend to the presidency come 2007, and also the government should revoke the  bilateral pact that led the federal government of Nigeria  to had ceded the Bakassi peninsula to the Cameroonian management.

God bless.

Comrade Sylvester I.Ukusare.

Secretary General: NANNDN ONLUS Italy.

Chair-Coordinator: Urhobo Uvwie Community CUU Italy.