BREAKING - Northern Elders Ask Court to Compel Nat Assembly to Effect Biafra exit

Northern Elders Ask Court to Compel Nat Assembly to Effect Biafra exit

 
A gathering of elderly folks and lawmakers from Kano State has requested that a court propel the Senate President, Ahmed Lawan and Speaker of the House of Representatives, Olufemi Gbajabiamila to hurry the exit of the South-East from Nigeria prior to finishing up continuous change to the nation's constitution.

The solicitation shaped one of the three petitions looked for in a suit stamped: FHC/ABJ/CS/538/2021 initiated at the Federal High Court in Abuja.

The government officials incorporate Nastura Ashir Shariff, Balarabe Rufa'I, Abdul-Aziz Sulaiman and Aminu Adam.

They affirmed in a supporting oath that their activity was educated by the need to stem the tide of savagery and annihilation purportedly occasioned by the fomentation for severance, advocated by the Nnamdi Kanu-drove Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB).

Recorded as litigants in the suit are the Attorney General of the Federation (AGF) (Abubakar Malami), the Senate President (Lawan), the Speaker of the House of Representatives (Gbajabiamila) and the National Assembly.

The offended parties asked the court for the accompanying reliefs: "An assertion that, by the joined impact of the arrangements of Section 4 of the 1999 Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria (as altered), and Articles 1, 2, and 20(1) of the African Charter on Human and Peoples' Rights (Ratification and Enforcement) Act 2004, the fourth litigant (the National Assembly) is enabled to get under way a structure for a choice to permit the South-eastern district of the Federal Republic of Nigeria to settle on their bid for self-assurance.

"A presentation that taking into account the arrangements of Articles 1, 2, 4, 14 and 20(1) of the African Charter on Human and Peoples' Rights (Ratification and Enforcement) Act 2004, the second and third respondents (the Senate President and House of Reps Speaker) have the ability to require a joint meeting of the two Chambers of the fourth litigant to ponder on the unsettling for self-assurance by the Southeastern conditions of the Federal Republic of Nigeria.

"A request coordinating the second, third and fourth litigants to give a structure that will prepare for the self-assurance of the South-eastern states to leave the geological substance called Nigeria before any further advance is taken to additionally change the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria.

A piece of the testimony peruses: "Indeed, even before the development of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), there was a gathering at the south-eastern piece of Nigeria known as the Movement for the Actualization of the Sovereign State of Biafra (MASSOB) under the administration of one, Chief Ralph Uwazuruike.

"The fundamental target of the gathering referenced in the promptly going before section is additionally the formation of the Independent State of Biafra, away from the Federal Republic of Nigeria.

"Some time before the rise of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) and the Movement for the Actualization of the Sovereign State of Biafra (MASSOB), there was a move by individuals of the south-eastern piece of Nigeria once Eastern Region drove by the late Col. Odumegwu Ojukwu to withdraw from the Federal Republic of Nigeria.

"The withdrawal endeavor by individuals of the then Eastern Region under the authority of the late Col. Ojukwu was straightforwardly answerable for the main Nigerian Civil War somewhere in the range of 1967 and 1970. The said common conflict had guaranteed numerous blameless lives from the two sides of the separation just as obliteration of properties worth billions of naira which was impeding to the development and improvement of the Federal Republic of Nigeria.

"The exercises of the common conflict have blurred in the personalities of numerous Nigerians and a rehash of the bloodletting of the common conflict isn't required, going ahead. The IPOB's tumult for self-assurance has turned fierce against both individuals of the south-east who are against their disturbances and different Nigerians completing their legal organizations inside the south-eastern conditions of the Federal Republic of Nigeria.

"The IPOB through its aggressor arm — Eastern Security Network (ESN) — is answerable for the killings, removals and obliteration of properties of different Nigerians not having a place with the Igbo clan. Settling, with conclusiveness, the existential inquiry of self-assurance of any piece of Nigeria is currently more pressing, basic and beats or more the issue of revising the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria.

"The Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria can be additionally changed whenever after the subject of self-assurance more likely than not been settled by Nigerians."

The case has been relegated to Justice Inyang Eden Ekwo and has been fixed for November 1, 2021 for hearing.