THE YORUBA PEOPLE’S QUEST FOR SELF-DETERMINATION WITHIN THE NIGERIAN CONSTITUTION
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https://doi.org/10.53704/fulaj.v1i1.519Abstract
The demand for self-determination is not a recent phenomenon in Nigeria. There have been cacophonies of secession from Nigeria before the independence but there has been much more since independence. Different tribes constituting present-day Nigeria had at one point or the other agitated and attempted to exercise their right to self-determination but the agitation of the Yoruba people remains one of the most pronounced in recent times. However, the Nigerian government has always adopted a reprisal approach to quelling these agitations. The support for this approach, according to the government is that the right to self-determination challenges the territorial integrity of the country, hence unconstitutional. This paper examined the historical contexts and factors underpinning the quest of the Yoruba people for self-determination in Nigeria. It further examined the constitutionality of the right to self-determination under the 1999 Constitution. Through the adoption of a qualitative research methodology using a doctrinal method of legal research, the paper found that the 1914 amalgamation of the Southern and Northern protectorates, the insecurity challenges in the Southwest, the perceived political and economic marginalization of the Yoruba people, and the legitimacy questions surrounding the 1999 Constitution amongst others are the factors underpinning the agitation for self-determination of the Yoruba people. The paper found further that the right to self-determination is unconstitutional in Nigeria. The paper, therefore, recommended appropriate solutions to the incessant struggle for self-determination of the Yoruba people.
Keywords: Self-determination; Secession; Territorial Integrity; Yoruba people; Amalgamation of Southern and Northern protectorates
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