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Group warns southern leaders against participating in 2023 polls

The Nigerian Indigenous Nationalities Alliance (NINAS) for Self-Determination has warned the people in the Middle-Belt and southern parts of Nigeria against participating in the 2023 elections.

The alliance gave the warning at a press conference held in Ibadan on the next line of action to take after the expiration of the 30-day consultation period given to elected officials in the areas of alliance.

The Chairman of NINAS, Prof. Banji Akintoye, said the rush for the 2023 election was the “Caliphate’s desperation to resuscitate the repudiated 1999 constitution.”

Akintoye, who was represented by the Treasurer, Ilana Omo Oodua, Chief Folasade Olukoya, said NINAS had first given the Federal Government 90 days to address its five-point demands, including the decommissioning of the 1999 constitution and suspension of future elections until the constitution was relaxed with a new one.

According to him, the main task of NINAS is to lead the dismantling of the “fraudulent” 1999 constitution to end the “unworkable unitary union it foists” and to champion the process of self-determination by which sovereignty is restored to the constituent region of the alliance.

Akintoye said: “It is in this regard that NINAS is now informing the political merchants of the South and Middle-Belt across all the political parties in Nigeria, that any decision by them or their political parties to go another round of national elections in 2023 will be interpreted as a clear-minded choice to help the enemy preserve the 1999 constitution and this will mean sabotaging the self-redemption initiative of their own people.

“NINAS strongly advises the political parties and political merchants in the alliance territories not to put themselves on a head-on collision (course) with the peoples of the territories in their quest for self-preservation via self-determination.”

Akintoye added that NINAS had declared a 120-day period of consultations, which started on Saturday, adding that it would consult with people in the South and Middle-Belt, organised labour, traditional rulers on the constitutional force majeure in Nigeria.

He stated: “The NINAS train of consultations and engagements will today, April 17, 2021, move on to the peoples of Nigeria, especially in the alliance territories, who collectively own the sovereignties forcefully consolidated and hijacked by the Nigerian state via the Instrumentality of the imposed and fraudulent constitutional arrangements of 1999.”

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