Save Nigeria by constitutuionally sitting it on the orderly edge as against the potentially chiaotic one it had remained on for so long.

Save Nigeria by constitutionally sitting it on orderly edge as against the potentially chaotic one it had remained on for so long.

Yes, it is an irony but true, Conferees I urge you all to tile a naught around a new constitution against coup, dictatorship, subversion, religious theocracy and undemocratic tendencies.

It would be normal to believe that at 21st century and 15 years of democratic dispensation that Nigeria must have risen above frays of coup and military dictatorship. However it will be highly irresponsible and naiveté of the highest order to believe, to act or to inact as if there exists no such forces and elements that are hell-bent to plunge Nigeria back to dictatorship or even worse, to subject Nigeria to strict Islamic theocracy.

The rabid quest for power by the power drunk Hausa/Fulani oligarchy; the cabals' quest to wrestle power from Jonathan at all cost can lead to military intervention either by military personnel sympathetic to the oligarchy's power starvation or by military personnel who correctly would not want the country to degenerate into another 38 years of Hausa/Fulani dictatorship and misrule.

But the immediate and real danger Nigeria faces today is the terror and threat posed by the terrorist Hausa/Fulani Boko Haramism. Boko Haram Islamism is an immediate and an existential threat to Nigeria. The threat posed by the power drunk Hausa/Fulani political oligarchies though real but it is nothing when compared to Boko Haram' s Interfida to Islamize Nigeria.

So to negate the possibility of degeneration into military dictatorship or into Islamism the new constitution that would emerge from the ongoing National Conference must have a section or provision that guarantees democracy and religious secularity in Nigeria based on the atmosphere of mutual respect and or mutual fear and based on the equality of the citizenry among the peoples of the 6 political zones or of the 36 state of the federation.

Yes, the opportunity offered by the ongoing conference must be seized for the guarantee of lasting democracy and religious freedom in Nigeria. The conference must be used to guarantee every Nigerian and every geo-political zones or the federating units, political, religious, freedom and mutual respect and self-determination if the government at the center becomes, tyrannical, despotic, and or taken over by undemocratic religious extremists.

For the above ends, a new constitution from the ongoing conference must have provision that would AUTOMATICALY dissolves the country into its federating units the moment undemocratic and religious extremists hijack, seize and usurp power and authority from a democratically constituted government.

After an automatic dissolution of the Nigeria state due to an undemocratic usurpation of power by undemocratic elements and or by religious extremist, the federating units would then become independent states. Each new independent state may voluntarily choose to remain independent by itself or enter into political union with one or more of the other independent states as each independent state deems fit.

With this constitutional provision no sectional interest group, clique or religious extremist would fancy taking over the federal authority by force because if they succeed they would have only their tiny federating unit to rule and dictate to.

The immediate benefit of this provision is that Boko Haram would no longer have any reasonable incentive to terrorize because their success would leave a tiny fraction of the former Nigeria, to Islamize. Though not absolutely necessary but to make this constitutional order work the military may need to be decentralized and balanced among the federating units either at state or at zoning levels.