2025 holds great implications for Nigeria – Obidigbo

The President of Osisioma Foundation, Dr. Chike Obidigbo, says 2025 holds great implications for the country, particularly for the Igbo nation. These implications, he said, range from social relations, politics, business, security and the progress of the younger generation. In his new year message personally signed by him and made available to newsmen, Obidigbo urged […]

The President of Osisioma Foundation, Dr. Chike Obidigbo, says 2025 holds great implications for the country, particularly for the Igbo nation.

These implications, he said, range from social relations, politics, business, security and the progress of the younger generation.

In his new year message personally signed by him and made available to newsmen, Obidigbo urged President Bola Tinubu to convene a meeting of ethnic nationalities to revisit Nigeria’s amalgamation document.

“To make the best of 2025 therefore, President Bola Tinubu should convene a meeting of ethnic nationalities to revisit Nigeria’s amalgamation document, which expired in 2014.

“Let us stop deceiving ourselves. We all know that Britain, the colonial merchants of fortune, did not seek the consent of Nigeria’s ethnic nationalities before merging the component units into one country,” he said.

The statement read in part: “However, in the wisdom of the British adventurers, a proviso was made for possible review after one hundred years of the experimentation. From 1914 to 2014, Nigerians have seen that the forced amalgamation has not worked out, and may never work. The country has tried a parliamentary system of government, there has been many military regimes and staggered presidential democracy.

“But, amid these efforts at evolving an equitable and acceptable system of self governance, Nigeria has continued to totter in political instability. It has become very evident that the country can no longer be sustainable as one administrative unit, unless and until we sit down to discuss the way forward. There have been calls for separation from the major component ethnic nationalities, including the Hausa (for Arewa Republic), Igbo (for Biafra) and Yoruba (for Oduduwa Republic or Yoruba nation) among many others.

“In the light of the foregoing, it has become very imperative for all the ethnic nationalities to come together and organise a referendum and resolve on the way forward. This is about the best way to stop further restiveness and the disgraceful slaughter of our youths in various parts of the country, especially in the far North, Middle Belt, East and West.”