NINAS Secretariat
September 25, 2023
At the Virtual Townhall Meeting of the NINAS Outreach Team with Thought-Leaders of Various Segments of the Nigerian Society, held September 24, 2023, to chart a Safe Way Forward for the Distressed Nigerian Federation in the aftermath of Nigeria’s Bungled 2023 Presidential Election amidst Nigeria’s Disputed Unitary Constitutional Arrangements, the following Resolutions are Proposed and Adopted;
(1) It is now self-evident to all in Nigeria that the Imposed Unitary Constitution of Nigeria (1999) is the source of the intractable Problems of Nigeria, including Killings, Corruption, Impunity, Mass Poverty, Insecurity, Infrastructural Decay, Bad Leadership, Serial Electoral Malfeasances, System Dysfunction, Hopelessness and State Failure, with clear and present danger of catastrophic collapse; Not Leadership as many have been led to believe, especially the younger generation. NINAS Posits that the Unworkable Unitary Constitution of Nigeria is, in fact, responsible for the Leadership Outcomes that have bedeviled Nigeria for over fifty years.
(2)Since the Constitutional Arrangements of Nigeria are the Main Problem with Nigeria, it is self-evident that the urgent Remediation required is for Constitutional Reconstruction rather than a Change of Leadership.
(3) That the Mechanism for Constitutional Reconstruction is Transitioning rather than Elections since Elections will culminate in the Reinforcement of the Disputed Constitution while Transitioning will yield new Constitutional Arrangements that could be FEDERATION, CONFEDERATION, or the Emergence of Independent Units of Successor Sovereign States from the Defunct Federation of Nigeria.
(4) Going by Resolutions 1, 2, and 3, the Action required now is immediate Transitioning for Union Reconstruction, not Mandate Recovery.
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These Resolutions will be the Basis of NINAS Collaboration with willing groups to rescue ourselves from what the Union of Death Unitary Nigeria has become its Constituent Components.
NINAS will, therefore, await the response of the groups represented in this Meeting to these Resolutions as the Basis of Collaboration.