Although Biafra is dead, it died in 1970, the quest for freedom from a Union of death, backwardness and miseries lives on. Having returned from exile in 1982, Dim Chukwuemeka Odimegwu-Ojukwu mourned the plight of the Igbo Nation and the other indigenous Ethnic Nations caught up inside unitary Nigeria.
While he had been aware of the “Biafra” actualization and restoration groups, he preferred to espouse a “Biafra of the mind” where the spirit of bravery, innovation and enterprise would guide Igboland into a better place, until he got to learn that the source of the problem was foundational, so in an interview, he said, “Perhaps the time had come to revisit the very foundations of Nigeria.”
Thus, having seen that the problem of Nigeria and therefore of Igbo Nation comes from the unitary constitutional order by the 1999 Constitution foisted upon Nigerians, Chief Ojukwu now played an important role in the Intervention Process to Rework the basis of the Nigeria Union, so he co-chaired the PRONACO Plenaries (2005-2006) with Chief Anthony Enahoro and Professor Wole Soyinka during its Enugu sittings.
Then, after PRONACO, Chief Ojukwu was a co-plaintiff (with Enahoro, Onoh, Soyinka, Bankole-Oki, Gbonigi, and others), in the 2009 leg of the court suits challenging the legitimacy of the 1999 Constitution on the grounds that it is a Forgery and a Fraud.
From when Chief Ojukwu became certain that the foundations of the Nigeria Union needed to be Reworked to his death in 2011, he was a supporter of the Intervention Process of the Lower Niger Congress (LNC) and its Alliance partners, known today as the NINAS Alliance.
In 2012, the Igbo caucus of the LNC made public the Intervention Process under the heading of Aladimma.
Quoting: “ALADIMMA had the privilege of working with a select few of the older generation including Dim Chukwuemeka-Odumegwu Ojukwu, Chief C.C. Onoh...”
What Aladimma stands for is encapsulated in the document titled “Aladimma Epistle 2012”. Eleven years have passed, and as predicted the future of Igbo Nation as governed and controlled by the 1999 Constitution, i.e., in unitary Nigeria, is hopeless. The process and outcome of the 2023 elections have been condemned by both local and international observers. The manufactured cash crisis from a botched currency change exercise has led to hardship and deaths. There is insecurity of kidnappings and killings coming from Fulani herdsmen militias raiding communities, or from violent interactions between security forces and IPOB (unknown gunmen also terrorizing Igbo).
Valuable natural resources that should have been used to fund development and infrastructure in Igboland e.g., natural gas and crude oil, are illegitimately seized by the government and used for the benefit of others. Being the Information Age, the deliberate allocation of extremely poor internet quality to Igboland shuts out its people from access to the required knowledge and web-based services.
These, and many other miseries confirm that the 1999 Constitution is the victory charter of unitary Nigeria over the Igbo, confiscating their sovereign rights and assets, and bringing about Ahmadu Bello’s Declaration of 1960 that Nigeria would be turned into the “estate” of the immigrant settler Fulani, and be a place where Igbo and all other indigenous Ethnic nations would never be able to control their future, and their lands with its riches, be “conquered territory”.
Therefore, a cardinal principle is that: Aladimma Rejects that Nigeria defined by the 1999 Constitution. By Aladimma, Igbo together with their NINAS Alliance partners i.e., other indigenous Ethnic Nations are easing out and dismantling the evil constitutional order brought upon them all by the 1999 Constitution (Fulani Caliphate’s Constitution). Several phases of this Intervention Process have been successfully done, and the Constitutional Force Majeure declared on 16th December 2020 was a historic achievement.
Where do the Igbo (and other Ethnic nations of the NINAS Alliance) go from here? They will go to REWORK THE UNION and release their trapped Sovereignties and Self-Determination!
Given that the conservative (core) North unilaterally took up Sharia, the option of Federation is looking unlikely. That leaves the other options of either the ABURI model (Confederation) or ARABA (full independence for units). However, as the Fulani persist with their genocidal violence against indigenous peoples for land grabbing, even the desire for Confederation is fading away.
Some Igbo and others in the NINAS Territory may be worried about what would happen to their property should the Dissolution of Nigeria happen. Those fears are unfounded and it is because they have not read Aladimma Epistle 2012.
For, “Aladimma has worked out with LNC an offshore-based ASSET PROTECTION AND GUARANTEE SCHEME (APGS) to ensure that Igbo assets and those of the rest of the Lower Niger will not be lost by the owners (at least in value), on account of any changes in Nigeria. Information on the modalities for inventory and other steps will be made public at the appropriate time.”
Igbo Nation is under the real and cruel existential threat of the Fulani Conquest Agenda and the instrument that empowers the Fulani is the 1999 Constitution, by overriding Sovereignty and hijacking Self-Determination. The United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (UNDRIP), invests indigenous Ethnic Nations with an inalienable right to Self-Determination, Aladimma-NINAS using this UN instrument is vigorously pursuing the retrieval of Igbo sovereign rights over their ancestral lands. Who will lead all this? Let Igbo first be guided by this Plan. As the Aladimma Plan is being actioned by Igbo, those who should be leaders will become visible through what they do.
In the full meaning of the word, Aladimma is Recovery of Igboland: Sovereignty, Self-Determination and Freedom.
Yes, Biafra is dead, it ended forever in 1970. But long live Igbo Nation (#Aladimma)!
Link to Aladimma Epistle 2012: https://ninasmovementnews.
Ndidi Uwechue is a British citizen with Igbo heritage from the Lower Niger Bloc. She is a retired Metropolitan (London) Police Officer, she is a signatory to the Constitutional Force Majeure, and she writes from Abuja.