Group calls for restructuring or referendum to address Nigeria’s ‘fundamental incompatibility’

By Anayo Okoli, Enugu

A human rights organization, Ekwenche Research Institute, has called for the urgent restructuring of Nigeria or the conduct of a referendum to resolve what it described as the country’s “fundamental incompatibility.”

In a statement signed by its President, Dr. Mbajiogu Akujieze; Secretary, Mazi Luke Nwannunu; and Chairman of Ekwenche Education and Culture, Rev. Emeka Nwachukwu, the group said Nigeria’s growing instability demands immediate intervention to avert further national crisis.

Ekwenche said its research findings align with those of Intersociety, another human rights group, which recently alleged that Christians and other ethnic or religious minorities were being systematically targeted and killed in parts of the country.

The group called for peaceful dialogue among Nigeria’s constituent nationalities, under international mediation, to discuss the possibility of a negotiated restructuring, confederation, or peaceful separation, depending on the consensus reached.

According to the statement, Nigeria’s legislature has “compromised its constitutional role of checks and balances,” while the executive arm has continued to interfere in the judiciary, leaving citizens to suffer deprivation, insecurity, and neglect.

“We respectfully call upon the international community to recognize that the Nigerian crisis is not merely one of bad governance, but of fundamental incompatibility within a forced union—driven by ethno-religious radicalism and hegemony,” the group said.

The organization urged global partners to support a peaceful, internationally monitored process of self-determination for Nigeria’s diverse peoples and to facilitate mediation toward a new governance structure that guarantees equality and dignity for all citizens.

Rejecting violence in all forms, Ekwenche reaffirmed its commitment to a peaceful and just resolution, where every group within Nigeria can freely determine its future under trustworthy institutions.

“It is a call for peace and an early warning before it is too late. Nigeria’s future must not be held hostage by a corrupt, ethno-religiously radicalized few who elevate the lives of cattle above those of human beings,” the statement concluded.

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