I WANT MY MIDWEST REGION.

A government that armed and sponsored hoodlums to embark on a killing mission against lawful and peaceful protesters should not be appalled by the videos and pictures of gruesome death that came out of their sponsored mission. Period.

Life has no duplicate; those you killed in cold blood will not go unsung. To those who participated in the massacre at Lekki Toll-Gate as well as those who gave the order, the blood of the victims is on your head and their spirit will continue to hunt you every day of your life. We are better than this.

You cannot have all the wealth of the nation within your control and all the architects of peace and security under your command and still be flatfooted in the face of clear and present danger. You are either dead or infirm of purpose. Either way, it's not in our best interest.

It's time we speak and take a stand - waiting for 2023 for President Buhari to leave office is replete with calamity. The age-old argument that it's the turn of the North to have one of their own as President, strengthens the narrative that indeed Nigeria is not one country.

So, if we have to perpetuate in the Presidency, someone whose identity, physical, or mental state no one can vouchsafe; someone who has demonstrated beyond every stretch of reasonable doubt that he is incapable of performing the acts of the state; and someone whose religious bigotry and espousal of irredentism knows no bounds so that we can meet the demands of a bogus power sharing equation, is the quickest route to unmaking the amalgamation the wrong way.

As we are right now, the Hausa/Fulani of Nigeria would rather choose the path of mass suicide than to entertain the call for the resignation of President Buhari. And why is that so? Because all the major elements of one nation-state are missing in the geographical expression called Nigeria. And those deficits and sense of inequality always manifest whenever someone from the North is in power, with the exception of President Musa Yar'Adua.

So, let's stop beating about the bush; we had enough. We are done with your leadership. If the corruption in the system is endemic, it is so because Aso Rock is endemic with emptiness. If you want to continue with a President Buhari who couldn't manage the conflict between his immediate family and the wife and kids of his cousin's, good for you. We know who we are; we are the apostles of Chief Obafemi Awolowo. And it's about the people.

You remain in your zone, under your Sharia law, and let me be in my region where Boko is not Haram. As to the oil wealth, you have had enough for yourselves and for your region in the past 50 years. It's time for those who own the land to have a feel of their God-given wealth. I love Nigeria, but I chose a CONFEDERAL SYSTEM OF GOVERNMENT where no region will continue to lie about population and about everything to continue to perpetuate their way of life on the larger population.

Therefore, let the process of DECENTRALIZATION begin - West, Mid-West, South-South, South-East, Middle-Belt, North-East, and North West. That's seven regions. If the North-West and North-East believe it is in their best interest to remain as one region, that's fine. Also, the people of Southern Kaduna should have the option to chose whether to remain part of the North-West or merge with the Middle-Belt region.

There should be a Unicameral Legislature where each region will send one or two representatives every four years. The position of the Prime Minister will be rotated among the six or seven regions after every four years, who will, in turn, have a regional Premier just the way it was before the civil war. This is not about who wants to go to war. War is out of the question.

To be continued.

“During my lifetime I have dedicated myself to this struggle of the African people. I have fought against white domination, and I have fought against black domination. I have cherished the ideal of a democratic and free society in which all persons live together in harmony and with equal opportunities. It is an ideal which I hope to live for and to achieve. But if needs be, it is an ideal for which I am prepared to die.”