The Proposed 7 Republics
A group known as God and People Prayer Parliament (GAP) on Wednesday called on President Bola Tinubu to reshuffle his cabinet and restructure Nigeria to a confederation with a proposed seven republics.
The group said the presidential system currently in practice in Nigeria is a drain pipe and needs to be changed.
Speaking, the Convener of the group, Dr Dele Oluwatade during a press briefing in Benin City, Edo State, decried the incessant terrorist attack in Nigeria, adding that “when we are in a confederate system, the communities now are empowered to defend themselves.”
Oluwatade proposed the seven republics to be Hausa Republic, comprising Sokoto, Kastina, Zamfara, Jigawa, Kano , Kebbi and Kaduna States . Borno Republic, comprising Yobe, Borno, Bauchi and Southern Gombe and Kwararafa Republic comprising Niger State , FCT, Nassarawa , Plateau, Gombe, Adamawa and Benue States.
Others include: Oduduwa Republic, comprising, Lagos, Oyo , Kwara, Osun ,Ondo, Ekiti, Kogi and Lagos States. While the Midwest Republic is to have Edo and Delta States. The Biafra Republic is to include Enugu, Abia, Anambra, Imo and Ebonyi States. While the Niger Delta Republic has Akwa- Ibom, Cross River, Bayalsa and Rivers States.
Speaking on the incessant terrorism going on in the country , he said, “member of the armed forces said
Nigerians should defend themselves, the battle is getting more than what the military can cope with. We agree with him. So what the president should donow is to divide us into confederation.
“All the stakeholders in Nigeria should be reconfigured into confederation. Units that can
now defend themselves. You cannot defend yourself in a presidential system.
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“But when we are in a confederate system, the communities now are empowered to defend
themselves. And that is what we are asking our President, Bola Tinubu to do for us and the members of the national assembly should think of that.
Continuing, he said
“This is not the time for political politics. Or party politics. This is the time to play politics
with the people. To emancipate them and remove them and free them from the yoke of the terrorists .
Presently, the black man in Nigeria is one of the most oppressed and
discriminated against.”
Decrying the Nigerian Presidential system, he said
“Nigeria copied the parliamentary and the presidential
systems of government and adultrated them to
accommodate our greed, aggressive and oppressive imperial characters. The past and present political systems were copied from other countries without the
,essential stabilizers like secession and referendum clauses, and rules of engagement. Therefore failed.
The world cannot be watching us butcher ourselves with racial and religious genocides, banditry and political disfranchisement of major stakeholders. We either settle
ourselves quickly or they will come to put us right.”
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