The CONGRESS FOR EQUALITY AND CHANGE (CEC), a group comprising of all the perceived minorities of Nigeria was formally inaugurated in Abuja on Thursday August 05, 2010. Chairman of the Board of Trustees of CEC is no other than the untiring octogenerian, Chief Edwin Clark, an Ijaw man from Delta State. I must say, this is the best thing that has happened to the political landscape of our country since Lord Lugard's 1914 amalgamation of the Southern and Northern Protectorates that created the entity alled Nigeria. The Hausa/Fulani nation, Yoruba nationa dn Igbo nation have dominated the rulership of the country to their favour and to the detriment of the remaining 250 smaller tribes.
For the first time, the minority tribes in all States and Christians in some northern States have created a forum to express their hitherto oppressed opinions and to demand for their rights as citizens on Nigeria to rulership. I congratulate the pioneers of the movement and wish them God's blessings.
They should please remember the case of Jos North LGA. In 1991 IBB's administration surreptitiously and secretly curved out a Hausa/Fulani settlement in Afizere/Anaguta/Berom land in the old Jos LGA and gave it to these settlers as an LGA called Jos North. This has resulted in over ten thousand deaths since then and the loss of billions of Naira worth of property. The injustice done the owners of the land needs to be reversed for their to be peace on the Plateau.
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