A Raging Confusion & Delusion By Abiodun Aremu
This Clarification is directed at those who erroneously think that the National Assembly of Nigeria is the venue for Resolving all Constitutional Grievances and who therefore point all those raising Constitutional Grievances or Dispute towards the National Assembly.
Constitution-Making is Different from Law-Making.
The Powers of the National Assembly is Limited to Law-Making and does not extend to Constitution-Making.
Constitution-Making is a much higher undertaking and is the Exclusive Prerogative of the People.
Constitution-Making Requires Constituent Powers which reside exclusively with the People as an incident of their Sovereignty.
That Constituent Power is exercised by the People through a Body Specially Elected & Mandated by the People, not the Parliament that was Elected to make Laws according to Constitution.
Even with the Constituent-Power Mandate of the People, the Draft Constitution Produced by the Specially Empaneled Body is subjected to Referendum as the Ratification so that it carries the Seal and Sanction of the People.
The National Assembly does not have Constituent Powers and the limited power of Constitution Amendments granted the Parliament by the People through the Constitution is also subjected to the Ratification of the People by way of Referendum.
The Situation of Nigeria is that We have not made any Constitution at all and so the National Assembly that clings to the Forgery of 1999 that is imputed by Decree to *”WE THE PEOPLE”* is compounding the Treason Initiated by Abdusalam Abubakar in 1999 via Decree No.24 by which he enacted the so-called “1999 Constitution”.
Those who draw power from, and swear to Defend and Uphold the Imposed, Fraudulent 1999 Constitution by which our Sovereignty is Hijacked and Confiscated by an illicit Federal Government are actually committing *TREASON* against the rest of us.
With the year 2000 Joint *SECESSION* of the 12 Contiguous States of the Far North from the Secular Union of Nigeria, the December 16, 2020 Constitutional Force Majeure Proclamation was the Activation of a Joint Machinery of the rest of Nigeria, (being the Indigenous Peoples of Nigeria in the South and Middle-Belt) to Decommission and Terminate the Operation of the Fraudulent 1999 Constitution, Dismantle the Unitary Union of Death foisted by that Constitution and Midwife the Emergence of Successor-Constitutional Protocols anchored wholly on the Self-Determination Rights of the Trapped Constituent Components of the Defunct Federation of Nigeria which collapsed since 1966.
Tony Nnadi.
NINAS Secretariat
April 25, 2021.
A Raging Confusion & Delusion
*The above post is part of the raging Confusion & Delusion in the country, that are clothed in intellectual sophistry! Political power is won through struggle & a people must be a people in essence to assert legitimacy! Laws and constitution-making are mere organs of class rule (power). The central question is who controls the economy & who controls the politics? And the control of the economy & politics is never possible, without winning class power, without overthrowing the class of looters holding power! It's not a moral issue or of appeal of the individuals assuming the status of a people! Which people?*
*When in ACIS-M, we speak of the people, whether in Nigeria or the Pan-African world, we mean: “the working population [workers, farmers, professionals, traders, artisans, etc) in the formal & informal sectors who are subjected to indecent work conditions and living, we mean the millions of youth without education, jobs, and social security, we mean women, aged, physically challenged and all those who are victims of one form of exploitation and oppression and who are prepared to commit themselves to the struggle for total liberation on the core-principles of clarity-conviction-commitment-collective discipline!*
*Or as COMMANDANTE FIDEL said: when we speak of the PEOPLE we are not talking about those who live in comfort or those who profit from the looting of our society, who glorify the class of looters, who welcome and obey any repressive regime and impunity in government, and those who prostrate before the rulers of the moment because of selfish gains.*
*Or as FELA ANIKULAPO said when he sang of the PEOPLE we are not talking about those who will say “we no wan die, we no wan wound, we no wan quench, we no wan go; I get one child, Mama dey for house, Papa dey for house, I wan build house, I don build house; We no wan quench, I wan enjoy, We no wan go, So policeman go slap your face, you no go talk; Army man go whip your yansh, you go dey look like donkey! Dem leave Sorrow, Tears and Blood*
*AND as Commandante FIDEL concluded: When we speak of STRUGGLE and we mention the PEOPLE we mean the working people and the oppressed masses, those to whom everyone makes promises and who are deceived by all.* *We mean the PEOPLE, who want a better, more dignified and humane society; who are moved by profound commitment to justice, because they have suffered injustice, humiliation and mockery from every regime – military & civilian*
*We mean the PEOPLE who long for true and upright changes in all aspects of their life; PEOPLE who, to attain their FREEDOM, they believe in themselves and are ready to give even the very last breadth they have to bring about the desired humane society”*
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