A long time ago, an Englishman travelling in India came upon a poor man sitting by the roadside eating mud. Intrigued, this traveler asked the man why was he eating mud, and the Indian replied that he had nothing to eat but his mouth was badly craving food, so to satisfy his mouth, he scooped the roadside mud into cakes which he put into his mouth.
Constitutions create the environment citizens live in. That is why the type of Constitution a country has matters! Nigeria’s Constitution MUST therefore matter to Nigerians. Nigeria is the visual representation of its Unitary 1999 Constitution, a well-known Forgery and Fraud foisted upon its people. Whatever Nigerians complain about in their environment can be traced back to the 1999 Constitution.
Although Biafra is dead, it died in 1970, the quest for freedom from a Union of death, backwardness and miseries lives on. Having returned from exile in 1982, Dim Chukwuemeka Odimegwu-Ojukwu mourned the plight of the Igbo Nation and the other indigenous Ethnic Nations caught up inside unitary Nigeria.
Although indigenous peoples of Nigeria curse Frederick Lugard, the Amalgamator, before him was an equally unjust man also with racial supremacist views: the merchant George Dashwood Taubman Goldie who formed the Royal Niger Company (RNC), originally the United African Company then the National African Company. Even before obtaining a Royal Charter that gave Goldie and his company enormous powers, Goldie had managed to get Treaties signed by native Traditional Rulers.