By Charles Obinna Chukwunaru, PhD
Nigeria failed as a nation state since 1967, which resulted in a deadly pogrom and horrific civil war (1967 – 1970), which are yet to be peacefully resolved. Suffice it to say that there was no peacefully negotiated settlement to the remote and immediate causes of the genocidal civil war against Ndigbo as well as Eastern Nigeria and Biafra in general.
Sadly, subsequent regimes in Nigeria failed to address the fundamental issues of nationhood after the war. Instead, the central government forged ahead with the obnoxious anti-Igbo (Igbophobia) policy, thereby setting the trajectory, albeit inadvertently, from state failure to state collapse.
Nonetheless, these are the crucial questions that must be urgently addressed by the failed republic:
Will the Nigerian government release Mazi Nnamdi Kanu from illegal detention and take the bull by the horns through the restructuring of the country in line with the spirit of the only authentic constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria 1963?
Otherwise, will the government initiate a peaceful referendum to determine the status of the failed republic of Nigeria as a nation-state?
Finally, will the present administration do the needful or allow the failed republic to continue drifting towards a catastrophic state collapse?
Charles Obinna Chukwunaru, PhD,
(Nwachinyereugo) is President,
Eastern Nigeria Development Association.
