In
new statements, some influential leaders of Indigenous People of
Biafra, have rejected President Muhammadu Buhari's statement on those
agitating for Biafra.
President Muhammadu Buhari in a group photograph with South East Traditional Rulers at the state house in Abuja
In an official statement released by IPOB spokesman, Emma Powerful,
leaders of Indigenous People of Biafra and a former Secretary General
of Ohanaeze Ndigbo, Chief Nduka Eya, are among the Igbo people who have
rejected President Muhammadu Buhari’s statement that those agitating for
Biafra should perish the idea because it would not be a reality
The influential Igbo leaders who disclosed that the president was
day-dreaming, said that Buhari and the people around him are far from
the reality about what is happening now and what is about to happen in
Nigeria concerning the restoration of Biafra.
According to IPOB, the statement credited to the President during a
meeting with South-East traditional rulers that his visitors, should
advise their subjects to forget the issue of Biafra had proved that
Buhari and his the people around him were far away from the reality on
ground.
“They forgot that there is no how Nigeria can be one again
because of the cheating from the people ruling the country. They also
forgot that there are those who came to rule Nigeria in perpetuity are
of the knowledge that Nigeria is not going to be one country in the near
future.
“There is no way a country where cheats, quota system,
imbalance of states and local government areas and lopsided sharing are
the order of the day can be one indivisible entity.
“Those who created 19 states in northern part and 17 states in
the southern part of Nigeria and more local government areas are aware
before the creation that one day Nigeria will be a devided nation.
“With the fraudulent falsification of Nigeria census figures
against the Biafrans since the colonial era, they know very well that
one day Nigeria will be a thing of the past.
“We are also aware that those at the corridors of power in
Nigeria are aware that Nigeria is sinking but refused to tell the
president the truth on the ground about the coming of Biafra,” the group said.
Speaking exclusively to Sunday Vanguard yesterday, on the President’s statement, former Secretary General of Ohanaeze, Chief Nduka Eya, said Buhari was “day-dreaming.”
The former Secretary General said, “The man (Buhari) is
day-dreaming. He has the solutions to Nigeria’s problems in the
resolutions of the last National Conference through restructuring but he
is not doing anything.
“Biafra is a reality, people should not be angry because time
shall tell. Abacha gagged Nigeria in his own time until God called him
and MKO Abiola. Nobody should worry about whatever he says but if he
thinks that Biafra is something to be wished away, then Biafra will
overtake him. All I can say is that oppression stops when the oppressed
says no.”
The Secretary of Ohanaeze in Enugu State, Hon. Fidelix Ojobo, who
concured with Chief Eya, disclosed that the Ndigbo would continue to
agitate for Biafra since the agitation is guaranteed by the 1999
Constitution.
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