Self-Determination is Not Synonymous With Secession.
Self-determination
is a mere assertion by the indigenous peoples of the Lower Niger and
other emergent federations of their inalienable right to determine their
own fate by themselves, within the context of today’s Nigeria or
outside of it.
We
believe that the best path forward for Nigeria, as it devolves, must be
a peaceful one. Overconcentration of political power at the center,
which was put in place by the imposed Unification Decree No 34 of May
24, 1966, has resulted in ethnic cleansing and pogroms, a genocidal
Civil War, divisiveness, official corruption, arbitrariness and
unmitigated economic ruination to a once promising Nigeria of the
immediate post-Independence era of the 1960s. The unacceptable status
quo is artificially sustained through negating the rights of millions of
indigenous peoples of the Lower Niger whose ancestral lands and the
treasures in them have been stolen by external interest groups that
control the citadel of power at the center in Abuja.
Source: lnc-usa.org
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