Unless The 1999 Constitution Is Redress, No Election Will Be Allowed In Southern, Middle Belt Regions – Group Warns

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A coalition of leaders of Southern Nigeria and Middle-Belt, under the aegis of Nigerian Indigenous Nationalities Alliance for Self-Determination (NINAS), has threatened that the 2023 Presidential election will be deferred unless their demand for 1999 Constitutional amendment is adhered to.

NINAS made the declaration at a press conference at New Bodija, Ibadan, Oyo State, on Wednesday, while setting modalities to extricate their people from what they described as the “contraption called Nigeria.”

Chairman of NINAS, Prof. Banji Akintoye, and other leaders of the group, said the politicians from southern and middle belt regions should take note hence no election will be allowed to take place in the concerned territories unless their demand is met

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He said, “We also invite politicians from the alliance territories and all political parties operating in the alliance territories, to take notice, that the 1999 Constitution by which the winner of any national elections in Nigeria will swear, and govern, is the very object of the sovereignty dispute we have just proclaimed, with a demand that further national elections premised upon that repudiated constitution, be deferred forthwith, for the purpose of first reworking the damaged constitutional basis of Nigeria”.

While setting out the modalities for transition, Akintoye said: “For the avoidance of doubt, the NINAS proclamation of constitutional dispute on December 16th, 2020 terminated the life of the fraudulent 1999 Constitution of Nigeria and, therefore, restored our sovereignty that was confiscated by that constitution. 

"What we are doing today is to outline the processes and modality for the necessary and orderly transition to our full self-determination and sovereignty in the world"

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