Good speech for the deaf and ignoble

"Nigeria’s amalgamation not a mistake –Jonathan" sun newspaper 2/27/14



Good speech for the deaf and ignoble



Jonathan's speech is a good one but good speech to the ‘deafed’ and to the ignoble Nigerians is like washing the hands to cook for the dogs which therefore would make no difference in the dogs’ opinion about food. Nigerians are inherently acrimonious, divisive and functionally ignorant.
Nigeria problems even though they seem humongous are very easily solvable. All it requires to solve almost all Nigeria problems is the self-renewal of heart by all Nigerians. This renewal of heart means the exhibition of patriotism, the acceptance or belief by all Nigerians, in the rights, and equality of every other Nigerian irrespective of ethnicity, religion, and place of birth. Nigerians must accept that the nation is greater than any individual, group, region and or religion. Nigerians must know that citizenship ought to be superior to intrafaith, social, regional, fraternal, and or groups’ membership bonds. Nigerians must understand that for peace and harmony in a hetero-ethno-religious nation, citizenship bond must be equal to or stronger and superior to the bond among members of psychological groups.
To solve many of Nigeria ills that are rooted in ‘rivalrism,’ethnicity, disunity, disharmony, tribalism, nepotism, and cronyism with their associative corruption and backwardness, every Nigerian must be granted, and assured complete citizenship regardless of place of birth, ethnicity, religion or residency. Nigeria must abrogate indigene-ship laws or policies promulgated in the regions and in the states and replace them with one, complete and equal citizenship for every Nigerian irrespective of genealogical and religious backgrounds.
In the regions, and in the states, in civil service and political appointments, and in admissions into the universities, Nigeria lays more emphasis on mediocrities of indigene-ship, ethnicity, religion, states of origin and catchment areas instead of on citizenship and competence. Yet our politicians cry wolf about the ethnic division and tension among the citizenry. 
Until such a time a Yoruba resident in Kano or Enugu would without fear or faint of heart, an Igbo resident in Kano or Lagos would without fear or faint of heart, a Hausa/Fulani resident in Enugu, Porthacourt or Lagos would without fear or faint of heart be able to viably and confidently stand for a statewide election in their state of residence, the call for national unity and development will continue to be a wash. Until every Nigerian sees self as being at home regardless of the city, state he or she lives in, Nigeria will continue to remain a pipe dream, an illusion. Until Nigeria sees it proper to abolish the divisive indigene-ship policies in the regions and in the states, the calls for national unity would continue to be a ruse and at best a waste of time. It is impossible to achieve cohesion among the people in a country with fluid and incoherent citizenship.
Today in Nigeria depending on current place of residence every Nigerian is either first or second class citizen. If you’re Igbo in Lagos or Kano, or Hausa in Onitsha or Lagos or Yoruba in Onitsha or Kano you’re a 2nd class citizen. But if this Nigerian goes back to a city, a state in his ‘ethno-geo-political zone’ he or she then reclaims 1st class citizen. Our politicians know that it’s impossible to achieve unity, cohesion, love, patriotism from and among the citizenry with this kind of incoherent citizenship classification. Yet they pretend to not know that the political turmoil, ethnic rivalry, ethnic mistrust, hate and tension, unhealthy competition, the cutthroat politics, cronyism, nepotism, corruption and professional mediocrity in Nigeria; stem from this incoherent citizenship classification
So, if the national conference did not achieve any other thing, for the Nigeria future, the conference must do away with indigene-ships policies in the regions and replace the same with full, complete, absolute Nigeria Citizenship Anywhere and Every-where within the Nigeria territory.