Tour of Liberty

The Tour of Liberty is one of the steps in the Restartnaija process. It involves the movement of the Restartnaija group through all the various senatorial districts in Nigeria. People from the various communities in every senatorial district will have one day to showcase their socio-industrial potentials in preparation for the Restart National Conference. This Tour of Liberty is aimed to inspire the people of the communities in Nigeria to believe in their own capacity to develop and prosper from the cultural, human and natural resources in their environment, and to prepare to establish the tripod stand of freedom for all communities at the Restart National Conference.

The Restart National Conference aims to propose a reformed Constitution of Intercultural Liberty with 3 targets:

1. Adopt the ideology of Intercultural Liberty as the basis and purpose of Nigerian (and African) unity over the colonial ideology that has been used to sustain the currently imposed and hostile nationhood.
2. End the colonial land-expropriation law, and both the postcolonial Land-Use-Act and Nigerian Mineral and Mining Act by recognizing the various communities’ and individual’s lands as their private property, along with their right to protect their lives and property. Then, set reasonable deadlines for the enactment (like 1-3 years for general land retrieval, and 4-6 years for Niger-Delta onshore oil property).
3. Form the cultural destiny contest (as triennial or quadrennial contests for various communities to display their various products, services, groomed environments and acted/depicted ways of life) starting in Nigeria, and to later extend to the rest of Africa. Then, set a date for the first edition of the cultural destiny contest.

This project began at the University of Ibadan in 2016 as a social research called Restartnaija, by a group of young scholars, and has now grown into a group of Nigerians from all states to apply the research result of Intercultural Liberty in Nigeria. To achieve the 3 reform targets above, the group has set out 4 tasks as follows:

1. Convention: May: Abuja, Onitsha, Lagos, Kaduna, Bauchi, Ibadan and Akwa-Ibom
2. Tour of Liberty: movement to all the senatorial districts in Nigeria for people of the different communities to showcase their socio-industrial potentials in a chosen location in their district. November – March
3. Intra-district conference: for delegates of various communities in each senatorial district to discuss their stand on the new ideology and to choose a delegate to represent them in the Restart National Conference. Nov – Dec.
4. Restart National Conference: for the delegates of the various senatorial districts to adopt and ratify the new Constitution of Intercultural Liberty as the basis of a new, consented and progressive nationhood. Dec-Jan 2026.

Since Restartnaija began and has been domiciled in Ibadan, it is most appropriate that the Tour starts of from Oyo. This means that the first state to visit will be Osun state.

Hence, the movement of the Tour could be in this form: Ibadan ●● Osun ●> Ekiti ●> Kogi ●> Abuja (maybe) ●> Kwara ●> Niger ●> Kebbi ●> Sokoto ●> Zamfara ●> Kaduna ●> Katsina ●> Kano ●> Jigawa ●> Bauchi ●> Yobe ●> Borno ●> Gombe ●> Adamawa ●> Taraba ●> Plateau ●> Nasarawa ●> Benue ●> Cross-River ●> Akwa-Ibom ●> Abia ●> Ebonyi ●> Enugu ●> Anambra ●> Imo ●> Rivers ●> Bayelsa ●> Delta ●> Edo ●> Ondo ●> Lagos ●> Ogun ●> Oyo ■■■■■ see dates below:

Osun: = Osun Central, Osun East, Osun West

Ekiti:   = Ekiti Central, Ekiti North, Ekiti South

Kogi:   =Kogi Central, Kogi East, Kogi West

Abuja: = 2 area councils for each of the 3 days

Kwara: = Kwara Central Kwara North Kwara South

Niger: = Niger East Niger North Niger South

Kebbi: = Kebbi Central Kebbi North Kebbi South

Sokoto: = Sokoto East Sokoto North Sokoto South

Zamfara: August=Zamfara Central Zamfara North Zamfara West

Kaduna: = Kaduna Central Kaduna North Kaduna South

Katsina: = Katsina Central Katsina North Katsina South

Kano: = Kano Central Kano North Kano South

Jigawa: = Jigawa North-East Jigawa North-West Jigawa South-West

Bauchi: = Bauchi Central Bauchi North Bauchi South

Yobe: = Yobe East Yobe North Yobe South

Borno: = Borno Central Borno North Borno South

Gombe: September = Gombe Central Gombe North Gombe South

Adamawa: = Adamawa Central Adamawa North Adamawa South

Taraba: September = Taraba Central Taraba North Taraba South

Plateau: September = Plateau Central Plateau North Plateau South

Nasarawa: = Nasarawa North Nasarawa South Nasarawa West

Benue: = Benue Central Benue North Benue North-West

Cross-River: = Cross River Central Cross River North Cross River South

Akwa-Ibom: = Akwa Ibom North-East Akwa Ibom North-West Akwa Ibom South

Abia: = Abia Central Abia North Abia South

Ebonyi: = Ebonyi Central Ebonyi North Ebonyi South

Enugu: = Enugu East Enugu North Enugu West

Anambra: = Anambra Central Anambra North Anambra South

Imo: = Imo East Imo North Imo West

Rivers: = Rivers East Rivers South-East Rivers West

Bayelsa: = Bayelsa Central Bayelsa East Bayelsa West

Delta: = Delta Central Delta North Delta South

Edo: = Edo Central Edo North Edo South

Ondo: = Ondo Central Ondo North Ondo South

Lagos: = Lagos Central Lagos East Lagos West

Ogun: = Ogun Central Ogun East Ogun West

Oyo: = Oyo Central Oyo North Oyo South