North wants a blank Census Form and Federal Character at the same time

Their constitution is Nigeria and Nigeria is their constitution

Nigeria is a country made of many ethnic nationalities and religions. Census is the ideal project where these diversity need be captured for historical, genealogical, political and economic planning purposes. But I wonder how Federal Character, State of Origin, Catchment Area are constitutional backed policies but knowing the population of Hausa/Fulani, Yoruba , Igbo, Ijaw, Ishakiri, Ibibio, Egon, Tiv, Edo and over 300 other ethnic nationalities in Nigeria is diversionary, divisive and unhealthy in the thinking of the Hausa/Fulani hegemony?
Now, in the 2016 census let's us in the name of peace and one Nigerianess continue to capitulate for the Hausa/Fulani whims and caprice and just count Nigerians as Nigerians and not on state by state bases if this is what they want. Let us give every Nigerian a numerical digit and do away with names which may hint to our ethnicity so that by this doing we would have completely done away with   ethnicity and religion and other citizen tribal differences. I am quite sure Con IBB and his fellow crooks from the north reeling against the inclusion of religion and ethnicity in 2016 would object to this type of census that would be100% free of tribal and religious differences and sentiments. As we continue to dance the Hausa/Fulani dance of death and under the constitution given by their military henchmen,  my caution to  well Nigerians is for us to understand that peace NOT based on mutual fear and respect, equality, equity and justice is at best a truce, a postponement of the day of doom; is a peace between a Master and a servant.
It shouldn't be a surprise that Con IBB and hegemonic Hausa/Fulani want just a half measure and not full measure in eliminating tribal and religious differences in 2016 census. Because the status quo favors their region, religion and ethnicity. The status quo of 19 northern states (13 Hausa/Fulani controlled States with Christian minority and other northern minorities shredded among heavy Hausa/Fulani population in the three other northern states) as against 17 in the south; the status quo of twice the number of local governments in the North as there are in the south; the status quo of Muslim North being in absolute overwhelming majority in13 states and in simple majority over the Christian North in another 3 states of North. These 19 northern states and so many local governments translates to so much, political, social, religiously, economical, legislatively, etc advantages
The 19 states means the north would get 19 state shares in federal allocation
Twice the of LGAs means the north would get twice local government shares in federal allocation to local governments
It means the north would have 6 senate seat advantage over the south which means the north controls the legislative arm of the government
It means the north have over 30 legislators advantage of the south in the lower house.
It means by federal character the north would always have more federal executive cabinet members over the south; more federal employees, more students in the federal universities and unity schools, more personnel in the police and army 
It means the northern minority would forever be subservient to Muslim Hausa/Fulani.
It means that Hausa/Fulani is 16 states ahead in producing the president of Nigeria as against 6 for the Yoruba and 5 for the Ibo.
Its means Christian North would never build their schools and places of worship without the approval of Muslim Hausa/Fulani Leader and as one would imagine approvals for building churches in the Muslim northern are as difficult as the head of cow going through the eye of a needle.
So the advantage the Muslim north enjoys with the status quo is beyond description hence it would be utter madness in their part for them to support any policy or action that would scuttle their strangle hold and advantage over other Nigerians. So we know why census with religion and ethnicity data would not be welcomed by the Muslim north.  For them Nigeria is not broken so why fix it. For them a Sokoto or Bornu desert dweller can take full and absolute control of Liquid black gold found at the backyard of riverine man living over a thousand kilometer from the desert man.  For them census with information on religion and ethnicity would reveal either of two things; either that their self-arrogated advantage is correct and therefore should be maintained or that they are taking more than their fair share from the current arrangement in Nigeria and hence an end to their political and economic rape. So why should they take the risk, to know if the Muslim north is actually  as numerous as they claim to be when such risk could expose a dislikeable truth. I for one would not try to fix that which favors me and not yet broken. Every time one proposes justice, equity, equality, fairness and justice, Hausa/Fulani would object on the base of the 1999 Hausa/Fulani constitution, they would say 'it is against the constitution.' their constitution. They pretend to not know that the problem with Nigeria is fundamentally and foundationally constitutional. Yet they are always quick to reference the same faulty foundation because a shaky Nigeria is Nigeria owned and controlled by Hausa/Fulani
   But how?
Under the current pseudo federalism in Nigeria today, federal allocation that is given on state and local government bases mean that, the more states and or local governments a zone or state has the more money it gets from the center. The current state and local government partitions in Nigeria were all executed by Northern military dictatorial regimes and were skewed as one would imagine, favoring the old Northern region. One could not help but ask, what were the bases or criteria for the creation of the existing 36 states and 774 local governments by the military dictatorships? No criteria whatsoever, perhaps I should say that the creation of the existing states and local governments were based on arbitrary war and peace time military strategy, expediency, cronyism, nepotism, tribalism and or political manipulation. If military dictatorships are aberrations so are the political structures and partitions done by the dictatorships. Once again what were the bases for the creation of the present 36 state structure and 774 local governments? What if a local government depopulates to zero population due to natural or manmade disaster, would this local government continue to receive federal allocation just by the mere fact that it already exists even when it is inhabited by wild beasts only?
With the current flawed divisionary indigenous acts in most states in Nigeria an Ibo man living in any other part of Nigeria outside Igbo land is treated as an indigene of one of the Igbo states, a stranger to his state of residency. So in states creation and or local governments creation such Ibo man should also be assigned or counted to an Igbo state and not to the state where he resides until such a time the regressive divisive indigenous laws in the states are changed. But this was not the case when the present states and local governments were created by the Northern Military Juntas. For instance, Kano has 44 local government councils which perhaps took into account none indigenes living in Kano. However these none indigenes are not accorded ‘indigene-ship rights and privileges. So if there are 3M Ibos for example living in Kano and it becomes necessary that these Ibos move back to their states as is the case with Boko Haram attacks in the north, then Kano state would lose 3000000 residents but still keeps its 44 local governments; while the states where these Ibos relocated still maintain their twice less the number of local governments as Kano State. This arrangement is not only unfair but also wrong and criminal. With this arrangement, Kano State has it both ways and there is sound moral ground to legally and politically challenge the current geo-political arrangement and partitions in Nigeria. This is an example of nepotism, tribalism, cronyism that the January 1966 rebels and Gideon Orkar group complained about, it still exists and in a worse form.
South East zone have only five States and 98 local councils while the other zones have either 6 or 7 states and some have 188 local councils and the national cakes are given out on state and local government bases. Does anybody honestly believes that each of the three zones in the north is more populated than the Ibo population in Nigeria? The colonial masters recognized that in Nigeria then, there were 3 major ethnic groups, viz, the HausaFulani, the Ibo and the Yoruba ethnic groups. By the colonial master’s official record these three major tribes where more or less equal in population. There exist no colonial master’s official record that says that even though there are three major tribes, that Hausa/Fulani maintained super numerical population over Ibo and over the Yoruba tribes, yet in today Nigeria the Huasa/Fulani is in complete control of 13 states and majority in 3 other states in the Northern central which all together puts 16 states under Hausa/Fulani control while the Yoruba has only but 6 and Ibo 5. If this ratio 16:6:5 was the population of the Hausa/Fulani, Yoruba and Ibo respectively the British Masters would not have recorded 3 major tribes in Nigeria. Because 16 is not equal to 6 or 5, the British Masters would have rather said that there is one Major tribe in Nigeria, the Hausa/Fulani and about 300 others tribes.
This kind of injustice against Ibo and Yoruba by Northern military juntas in states and local government creation demands courageous leader all over the world's true democracies, ship and unity of purpose. If civil disobedience, political, legal pressures, national conference fails to halt this Igbo marginalization and disparity in federal to zone allocations, then social disengagement along with UN actions seeking Igbo autonomy should precede economic and political disengagement from the center. And this mass political movement will need courageous leadership, the type that is currently lacking in Nigeria and in Igbo land in particular.
The ongoing National Conference must recommend National Identity Card scheme backed with biometrics, an 8 to 10 year periodic national head count and a federal allocation based on congressional districts which in itself should be based on actual population of the human beings in the districts. As an example, every 400k to 600k people can make up a congressional district. Or the Conference for equity and fairness among the zones should provide for 7 or 8 states per zone and equal number of local governments among the zones. Contrary to Hausa/Fulani  fascination with land mass, all over the world's true democracies,  tax payable beings and not land mass is the criteria and bases for allocation except the land mass is taxed appropriately and proportionately.