In one instance he is parading as a statesman. In another, he is fermenting mischief. Guess who I am talking about. According to the article, "The three-day summit under the chairmanship of former Military President, Ibrahim Babangida" the evil man of Nigeria. What a confused individual. Forget about Adegbite. He is only their message boy, a stooge who they will get rid of after being exploited.

The good thing is that they are coming out in the open while the whole world is watching, while the world is groaning under the burden of Islamic terrorism. I hope that now, Nigerians can understand the strategy of Major Gideon Okar and his colleagues of blessed memory (in the unsuccessful coup of 22.4.1990) . They wanted to give Muslims their promised land where they can practice their sharia without any disturbance. Where they can be as their Taliban brothers in Afghanistan or Pakistan without depending parasitically on the resources and hard work of Nigerians. That is what EXCISING them from Nigeria means, cut them off. Considering the corruption, looting, stealing, oppression, repression, domination and violence we have suffered on a massive scale in the hands of Muslims, who says that is not the best option for us. I think that any discussion that is not focussing on how to actualise this is a waste of time. So Local Muslims should not only have their own constitution, they should have their own separate state. Good riddance :-) excisionist(at)gmx.com

THE ONLY CONSTITUTIONAL CHANGE THAT COULD SAVE THE COUNTRY FROM TOTAL COLLAPSE IS THAT WHICH WILL ALLOW SEPARATE DEVELOPMENT OF EACH OF THE SIX GEO-POLITICAL DIVISIONS OF THE COUNTRY.

Nigerians should be wary of those who may wish to institute a Talliban Style or Iranian form of Theocracy on the Nigerian population. One often find that these ideologues are usually afraid of women. They see women as tools or beasts of burden, and would like nothing better than to use punitive laws to legitimize their official oppression of women.

In my view, the ONLY law of the land should be that drawn from the Federal Constitution. Sharia Laws or Customary Laws must not under any circumstances supercede the Laws of the Federal Constitution. But the interpretation of facets of either the Sharia Laws or the Customary Laws of the country must be based on the Nigerian Constitution, and not on any religious interpretations of either the Quoran or the Bible. We must endeavour to seperate Church and State. The rules of any religion must not guide the exercise of freedom of expression of any Nigerian citizen. Where possible, the government must begin to weigh in on the way most Northern States have attempted to use the Sharia as a means of oppression of free willing Nigerian citizens. It would not necessarily matter if the 1999 Constitution is to be modified. However, as long as the human rights of any Nigerian citizen is not impinged upon due to some ill-conceived interpretation of some religious doctrines, the Federal Constitution must be seen to protect the rights of all citizens.

I know that many would perhaps, write to differ their views based on the position I have taken in this commentary. But, I want it to be on record that I am personally against any measure that would deter any Nigerian from freely expressing himself or herself in any form, shape or fashion. Those who may seek to restrict others freedom must themselves, have theirs be taken. And those who may resort to violence against women must either hate themselves or are afraid that if a woman succeeded in her personal endeavors to make something of herself, such men's inadequacies would ultimately justify the reasons why women should succeed in all undertakings. So, free thinking Nigerians, beware of the Talliban style of theocracy if these zealots have their way.

adegbite is trying to steer problem in nigeria..while must he be agigating for a separate constitution for the muslim..i am a muslim as well but i believed in the federation of nigeria as an entity..muslim or no muslim nigerian constitution should be what it is now..plz

It is time Nigeria leaves the nonsense western judeo-christian-pagan constitution and each state creates a constitution that it relates to and that defines itself. 2 up for Adegbite, I am so sick and tired of colo-mentality system, and their rubbish constitution we follow and especially the crap system of ‘;demonCrazy’, a system that can never allow Nigeria to progress. We need the best system of Government, Plato called it- ‘Philosopher Kings’ method where we select intellectuals possibly Universities select professors and philosophers. then u will see the way Nigeria progresses. This rubbish system won’t get us nowhere and if the rest Nigeria won’t change, allow Muslims to determine their own destiny, jare! and stop colo-slaving.

Mr. NewsSource, you are suggesting Theocracy as a form of government. You must really like the Iranian System where the masses are silenced because the Iranian Goulag is determined to kill anyone who opposed these men drabbed in robes, without underwears. These people see women as material things, unable to fend for themselves. It is perhaps, the same system which obtains in Saudi Arabia where women are forbidden to drive cars, and are not allowed to walk into a building using the same doors as men. You must like a system where wives are not allowed to eat at the same table with their husbands: where the woman eats ONLY after the man shall have dipped his filthy hands into the food, allowed a visiting guest to do likewise, and then shoves same to her and her children to eat after these fools shall have dabbleld their filthy fingers into the food.

You must like a system where, after you visit, a title is given to you, and you come back to Nigeria parrading yourself as an "Alhaji", which in Arabic means "Visitor". No other Arab who takes this pilgrimage to Mecca ever refers to himself as "Alhaji", except Nigerians. Its funny, they do not even recognize you as one of them, they only refer to you as a "visitor", and you are happy to fly back to Nigeria with a new found "degree" which has traditionally entitled many Northerners to Chairmanship positions in major Nigerian Corporations, even though they have never had any management training or university education. What these idiots do is travel overseas and employ Europeans to head these companies as "Consultants". They are consultants because they help these "Alhaji's" siphone money out of Nigeria for safekeeping in their countries. And for the most part, these Alhajis may not be able to obtain entry visas to these countries, and the money siphoned off tend to remain with them and their European families. Sometimes, these foreigners even do weigh in on their Interior Ministries to ensure that visas are denied these Nigerians. We have actually become the laughing stock in the European circles.

I have many Arab friends who tend to laugh to scorn Nigerians who visit Mecca or Medina for these pilgrimages because they take on the title of "visitor"., alas, "Alhaji". Theocracy is exactly what Ahmadinajad and his company of Ayatollah's have instituted in Iran. Nobody in this world should ever consider himself to be "supreme". Even Prophet Mohammed who wrote the Quoran under the guidanship of his Jewish cousins before he died in 632 AD would not have considered himself supreme. This was a concept which he would have reserved for God or Allah. The way these zealots parade themselves as some sanctimonious beings are troubling. No one should have that much power over another being.

The institution of a democratic system is not a concept that is an exclusive preserve of the West. If "democrary" is defined as a system of government for the people, run by the people, and of the people, can Mr. NewsSource tell me where in this definition where it's stated that the decision of one man or a cluster of some robe-clad twelve individuals should decide the fate of millions? Yet, these same "Council of Thieves" are known to have amassed so much wealth outside of their countries, that they can afford to buy gifts to the masses without feeling any pain.

I find it very appalling when I see hard working everyday Nigerians in the North or the Western part bowing down to these mischievious clowns who often gives you the impression that they are leaders. They parade themselves in social clubs as "Alhajis", and they are happy to be called such unintelligible names, without even questioning why someone would refer to them as visitors!!! The truth is, they do not want you in their midst, unless they can use you. Frankly, I would like to have the Federal Government investigate how much money from the country these clowns have stowed away in Arab Banks. How much of the wealth from the Niger Delta have these people carted away with impunity into Arab countries? As we are on the subject, can anyone tell me what happened to Dr. Pius Okigbo's investigation into the missing $12.5 Billion Dollars hidden in the name of Alhaji Alhaji's brother in Switzerland, which disappeared immediately this man died at his hospital bed in Switzerland. This was the money one unamed dictator had hoped to live on after he left office, and because Alhaji Alhaji's brother had the account information, the Switzs government would not disclose any information to anyone, not even the former military dictator. This anger was responsible for certain dictators to annul certain elections, and chose instead to stay in office longer, and punished the country under the guise of "structural adjustment programme". Many Nigerians died needlessly while the government borrowed money from the IMF, money which disappeared at night fall.

It took people like Dr. Okongie-Iweala to help Nigeria re-adjust its fiscal responsibility focus, and ushered in a programme whereby our foreign debts were foregiven. As of today, we are back again to borrowing nearly $3.5 Billion USD, and our national debt which had been paid off, is now spiralling out of control, again. Mr. NewsSource wants each State to have their own "Constitution". I have often wondered the viability of these States, many of which would not survive without the breast milk from the Niger Delta. The sense of euphoria which Mr. NewsSource feels is because so much is extracted from the Niger Delta, and so little is being put back in order to keep sustaining the country's growth. Mr. NewsSource, instituting "theocracy" in the North would ultimately destroy the lives of so many Nigerians whose only way out of ignorance is true education. I hope you can take this news to heart. Because this news medium maintains a certain degree of integrity, I would reserve the expletive words I would have used in this article in the interest of decency.