Hello guys.

I'm not really anybody, but I've been a Nigerian for 25 years, and I've noticed, I'm sure we've all noticed, the big issues we've been facing in this country regarding leadership and development.

One thing that is as sure as the sun is that everybody is very tribalistic to a certain measure. Everyone is always after what personally benefits them, rather than what benefits the country. We've had 62 years running with this ideology (probably a lot longer than that, judging by how easy it was for us to be colonized and the lack of real innovation in our respective civilizations).

This ideology has done nothing to ease our situation or to make our country any better than it is today.

Now, some people are clamoring for restructuring, basically that the country revert back to the 1960 constitution, and everyone would be all the better for it. Others are saying, you know what, our current constitution is very good. Let it remain the way it is.

What if I want to told you that both the 1960 and the 1990s constitution are both wrong and neither of them are working?

The old 1960 constitution failed in its implementation, plus its partisan politics, and this resulted in the civil war because of marginalization.

The 1999 Constitution also didn't work and people are still being marginalized and corruption is at an all time high with development reaching rock bottom.

So what now would be the solution to this dilemma?

Now we're currently faced with a Nigeria that has not really had a chance to shine on the world stage.

A Nigeria, I think, that has never shone throughout world history, hence why we were so easily colonized by foreign powers.

Now why is it that the region currently inhabited by Nigerians is always failing to govern itself correctly.

I've thought about it for a considerable amount of time and finally came to the conclusion, we're betting on a sick horse, and always would keep betting on sick horses because there is no repercussion to us betting on a sick horse.

I'll explain.

All our constitutions, both the old and new, have modelled on the British and American system respectively. Although both proved successful in their home countries, they ended up being a raging failure in ours. And that's because Nigeria is unlike the Uk and the US.

What we have is a completely unique country system that in turn should be governed by a completely unique constitution.

Hence where I come in.

My constitution is the Winning Horse Constitution

Basically, what this means is that we'll be running on competition and accountability. In the horse race, no horse breeder ever fielded a sickly underperforming horse. Yet, in our case, we kept fielding out sickly horses year after year. And we did this because our sponsors of the race didn't pull the plug on us and hire out new horse breeders. We carried on with the assumption that we'd always keep fielding sickly horses and whether we win or lose, Absolutely nothing would happen to us.

The Winning Horse Constitution is one that plays to our strengths rather than our weaknesses.

Nigeria as a country is ethnically divided as well as religiously divided. Both more variety lies in the ethnic divisions rather than the religious one. As a result, Nigerians in general aren't united, nor will they ever be. And they need not be united, as that's the equivalent of flogging a dead camel.

We have Six geopolitical zones; the North West, North East, North Central, South West. South East, and the South South.

Now, comprising these six geopolitical zones are more than 300 ethnic groups with three major ethnic groups in the mix: the Igbo, Yoruba, and the Hausa-Fulani.

That's basic social studies. Everyone knows this.

We also know that there's been a bone of contention for centuries amongst the various tribes, neither willing to work with the other for their collective development. The white men capitalized on this with their divide and conquer tactics and so were able to basically enslave several powerful empires and kingdoms.

You see, competition should be driven not by blind spite but by intelligent innovation. A society that shuns or abhors innovation is fated to be doomed.


Let me give an example.

I am a horse breeder for a race tournament. There are several others like me. Similarly, we are all sponsored monetarily by several key players in the horse racing business.

What this means is that we're answerable to these people and hence it wouldn't be in our best interest to field in a horse we know is sickly, rather we'd field in our best horses and hope for the best, because we know that we'd lose everything if our horse loses, or worse stumbles and dies before reaching the finish line.

This is the Winning Horse Constitution.

It is a healthy competition where each horse breeder is fielding their respective best horses because they know that they are accountable to their sponsors and they would lose it all if they don't win the race.

Nigeria has a very competitive admixture of people. Our only problem is that without accountability, we've kept on fielding sickly horses for 62 years, and probably centuries longer than that.

It is not just us as a people that are wrong. It is the system that encourages such a proceeding that is wrong.

If the system allows you to keep betting on a failed horse, you will keep on putting in sickly horses because you don't see that there will be penalties for putting in a sickly horse. But when my sponsor cut off all ties with me and I lost all my sponsorship money, I wouldn't think twice in the future about breeding the sturdiest stallion that would ever grace the racecourse.

My constitution goes like this:

In this constitution, we have Six geopolitical zones.

Each zone would have a roster where only one would field presidential candidates for a tenure.

Say there is the 2023 presidential elections. If it's the North East turn to field candidates, what this means is that all political parties would only field North Eastern presidential candidates for the election. That means no Tinubu vs Atiku. Or Obi vs Kwankanso. Rather we'd have a Tinubu vs Fashola, or a Rotimi Amaechi vs Wike.

Say it's the North East turn to field their president. Whoever wins is a representative of the North Eastern region. Next election would be... say the turn of the South South, and after that the North Central, then South East, then North West, then South West, and then back again to the North East.

The North Eastern candidate that wins the 2023 presidential election would have a VP from the south (also in a roster as well). On assumption of office, the president would be given what I call a metric sheet. These are measures in percentages that would be used to measure not just a president's performance but the entire growth of the country.

Say, one of what is listed in the sheet is raising the country's literacy rate from current 60% to 80% after eight years. This means that after the first four years, the president is expected to meet half of that, at 70%.

Now after the first four years, if the president fails to meet 80% of that benchmark of 70% literacy rate, the president's administration would be termed a failure. The president would then be given a second chance to contest for the presidential election. The president would also be given the option to change his VP (still from the region on the roster), and reorganize the people appointed on his team.

For the next election, the North East president would then be competing against the region that's next to produce a president. For example. Atiku did four years and didn't meet his quota. For the next election, he'll still fly his party's flag, but he'll be competing against the other candidates from the region after the North East. If that region is the South South, then he'll be competing against the Rotimi Amaechis and the Wikes of the world.

If he wins, he'll get reelected, and get a chance to meet the benchmark.

After 8 years, if the president still has not hit the benchmark on the sheet. For instance, the literacy rate hasn't risen to 80%. Power generation hasn't risen to 20,000 megawatts, etc, the president's administration would be termed a failure.

The effect this has is that once the roster cycle is completed, and it is now turn again for the North East to produce a president, they'll be skipped, or miss a turn. Instead it will be the next region that would field presidents. Since most of our regions would not want to be in such a position where they are tagged a region with the previously failed president, they'll field a winning horse and not a sickly horse.

I also didn't mention that if the president meets the metric, the region would go on when next it's their turn to field presidents.

The effect of this is that there'll be quick developments in all sectors across the country as people would be more likely to vote for the best candidate rather than a popular but sickly candidate, as this time there'll be repercussions for failure.


This is basically what I think would solve our problems in this country.

Not a bad idea

I need your input.


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No nyamuri will ever be president!

Nyamuri:
No nyamuri will ever be president!

I didn't make this post for people like you to comment. This is for intellectuals to give input on how feasible it is or how it can be improved. I know you don't understand anything I'm saying, if at all you can read.

Alright, but no nyamuri will ever be president

Bobbiee:


I didn't make this post for people like you to comment. This is for intellectuals to give input on how feasible it is or how it can be improved. I know you don't understand anything I'm saying, if at all you can read.

T9ksy:




Op, nice try but am afraid, upur proposition is D.O.A.

For one, the "Gatekeepers of Nigeria" a.k.a fulani immigrants from the sahel will never agree to this. They would rather burn the whole flipping country down to ashes than allow some infidels ( that goes for all southerners) to reverse all they have painstakingly put together for their sustenance over the decades.

Omo, if you really want to solve the problem of Nigeria, the only viable option is outright separation.
Nigeria is a country comprising of myriad nations who have nothing in common except for the color of their skin.

One question I always ask all you "One Nigerianists" is thus; if the brits hadn't forced us together, would we all have come to the table to create this warp union?

When you approach a Nigeria, you have to treat it the same way you'll approach a wild dog. Hence, we're not even close to being civil enough to expect the dog to relinquish the bone just because we ask for it. We also have a very short term memory hence why our current political atmosphere has reverted back to precivil war era (with the partisan politics). The south west are vying Tinubu, South East Peter Obi, North West Atiku, and North East Kwankwanso.

We don't have a system that allows secession. There will only be bloodshed before it is reached, and it almost certainly won't be reached in a decade, or more. Nigerians are all bark and no bite. Most are unwilling to face the rough realities of war.

The best is to think of a system that works rather than go our separate ways. There is no absolute guarantee that each of these seperate countries would then become an overnight Japan or South Korea just because they broke free of Nigeria.

For as long as they use the existing system of government, these tiny countries are fated to ruin. In fact, most of these agitations would quieten if Nigeria was a nation that worked. Afterall, you don't see nations like China and India revolting, and they're more ethnically mixed than us.

I’m sorry to say but your Winning Horse Constitution changes nothing. Ekuke na still Ekuke no matter how much you bath am.

As long as there’s impunity in the system, people will always do as they wish. You could have given your idea a bit more applicability if the punishment for failing was something greater than getting tagged as “region with failing president “

In case you didn’t notice, President Buhari is a failing president that went ahead to complete his 2nd tenure and his party is still very valid, his region still very valid with Atiku. In fact, they’re even standing on his mandate!

Let me tell you exactly what will happen. All the presidents of the regions will fail to meet quota and they’ll keep it on loop. They’ll just keep passing the failing horse around. Well at least, they’ll read online in their private jets that they’re failed presidents. That’ll show em’! Lol

The real truth of the matter is that poor Nigerians are yet to see the political class as their enemies. While you’re busy drawing up constitutions for them, the political class are tasting the future of a good Nigeria and it is very sweet and the cost is your own freedom. The only true solution to oppression is to seek your freedom BY FORCE.

The truth of why Nigerians/Africans will remain oppressed for years to come is EVOLUTION. Majority of Nigerians/Africans are docile and I’ve carried out heavy research to conclude that it’s because the motherland, Africa has never forced it’s inhabitant to lack or run for safety. We have everything we need to survive in surplus. Our forefathers never lacked and saw no threats even to greater powers. We never witnessed great, tsunamis, hurricanes or great famines.

I read Robinson Crusoe and I found that Africans had access to boats but had no reason to sail the waters but the Portuguese, Spanish and English wouldn’t stop voyaging all over the world despite the risks of death on water. It is because most of their(European) forefathers were constantly searching for food and evolution had forced the explorers out of them. Most Europeans are takers but they’re also risk takers.

It is unlike Africans to take risks, it is an anomaly. Taking risks is fighting your nature. Nigerian businessmen who exploit Nigeria don’t take risks even with nothing to lose. We’ll let the police brutalize us, we’ll let the government be evil and also give excuses for them like drafting a new constitution for the same evil people.

You can’t find your nature. The solution is to let evolution do it’s thing. In the far future, Africa will be overpopulated without food to sustain and maybe by then, we’ll also witness a new African man; one that takes risks for his survival.