Stop mass migration from Igboland and other regions into Yorubaland pending when all ethnic nationalities in Nigeria agreed to Sovereign National Conference and True Federalism.

In 1960, independent Nigeria's first constitution established a parliamentary democracy, with a bicameral legislature consisting of the Senate and the House of Representatives. Executive power was vested in a Prime Minister, while a largely ceremonial governor general represented the British monarch as head of state. In 1963, the governor general was replaced with a president serving a similarly symbolic function, making the country a republic. Each of Nigeria's three constituent units—the Western, Eastern, and Northern regions—also had its own constitution, government and premier.

In 1966, we abdicated responsibility, and consoled ourselves that some armed forces member somewhere would be taking care of it. Instead, it took less than five minutes for General Aguyi Ironsi, to empty the relevance of the three regions coat of arms of the federation of Nigeria by the suspension of the constitution and modification. A simple decree 5 put an end to an experience that was yielding a considerable result from regionalism into unitarism. A new dimension without any measure of certainty - the unknown was so paramount that since then Nigeria had been spoken of only in pessimistic terms. The sum of its misfortunes – its wars, its despotism, and its corruption – is truly daunting.

That is just the point: we have all failed. These sorts of brakes on democratic process are a microcosm of the overreaching problem with our politics: the people have no real power. The former military regime, before they finally left in 1999 had centralized the state - the police, armed forces, judiciary, prison service, parliament, intelligence service, civil service, border control, educational institutions, and the status of kings all serving to maintain the power of a tiny number who are too hard pressed to look beyond the day’s headline. Our politics, like our economy, has been built on sand since 1966.