Some groups from the South-east and South-south regions of the country have called for self-rule and self-determination for the regions. The groups, in a programme in Port Harcourt on Monday tagged: “A Solemn Assembly of the Peoples of the Lower Niger”, said they were not satisfied with the present constitution of the country, insisting that the country was designed to suppress the people from the Lower Niger comprising the present-day South-east and South-south zones.
Speakers at the one-day conference organised by the Lower Niger Congress (LNC) expressed their disappointment with the outcome of the 2015 general election, alleging that it was conducted to further push the two zones into the backwaters of the Nigerian nation-state.
The conference lamented the loss of President GOODLUCK Jonathan in the 2015 elections and said it was an orchestrated move by other regions of the country to relegate the region in the affairs of the nation. They also described Nigeria as a country lacking the basis of a one united, one nation entity. In a five-point proposal adopted at the conference, the people outlined the basis for the continued existence of the country as a united entity
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