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PECCAN demands that FG reverts to 1963 republican constitution for true Federalism

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An Political Affiliation, The Peoples Confederal Constituents Meeting of Nigeria (PECCAN) has charged and given the Federal authorities of Nigeria an ultimatum to desert the present structure and revert to 1963 republican structure citing that will probably be higher for the nation.

This is what they wrote beneath:

We write because the representatives of the peoples confederal constituents meeting of the ethnic nationalities of Nigeria to formally deliver to your discover of the utmost urgency of the above said calls for and material lengthy within the public area to your information for pressing redress.

The expectations of the folks of Nigeria as represented by the varied ethnic nationalities and which have endured over time following army interventions has been that, regardless of how irregularly the nationwide meeting could also be constituted, it ought to borrow a leaf from and replicate what our gallant nationalists on the Parliament of the first republic did, once they jettisoned the Britisher supervised and crafted 1960 structure and substituted it with the 1963 Republican structure with six regional construction of governments to mirror our indigenousity to accommodate the truth of the time in a plural multiethnic democracy and our folks’s aspiration for a real unbiased democratic federation of countries of ethnic nationalities.

It’s unhappy to notice that the perceived diversion and failure within the realisations of the people’s legitimate aspirations and expectations from previous parliaments to regularise and

agitations, and harmful battle mongerings, killings as now witnessed and restiveness among the many youthful generations who’ve been misgoverned and uncared for.

We right here by with all sense of accountability and in curiosity of the nations coercion, integration and concord amongst our varied peoples and ethnic nationalities, provide you with one (1) month discover from the date of this letter, of the pressing want to deal with this very pressing and existential issues and lengthy overdue calls for of the peoples, who will maintain you up as heroes of our time in case you accede to this patriotic and foundational authorized framework of our union as a federation and unbiased free nation for the frequent good, as something in any other case might lead to acceptable alternate authorized interpretations and interventions on the various heads to compel same both locally and internationally to return to the part of legality as a nation constituted, guided and governed by law freely agreed entered into by it’s peoples.

Thanks.

Yours Faithfully,
For: The Individuals’s Confederal Constituents Meeting (PECCAN)