We want Biafra, not presidency –Uwazuruike, IPOB, others

Various groups agitating for independent state of Biafra in Southeast Nigeria have sounded a note of warning to leaders and governors from the zone to forget their calls for a president of Igbo extraction either in 2019 or 2023.

They said they are only interested in Biafra as a separate state and not the nation’s presidency.

The Founder of Biafra Independent Movement/ Movement for the Actualisation of the Sovereign state of Biafra, Chief Ralph Uwazuruike says that the actualisation of the state of Biafra is the ultimate and the only aim of Ndigbo, which could not be supplanted with the presidency of Nigeria.

Uwazuruike, who started the renewed agitation for the sovereign state of Biafra in 1999 with his founding of MASSOB, reiterated that what Ndigbo wants is their own independent state and would not be deflected from that objective.

“Ndigbo wants Biafra and nothing more, that is why the agitation since 1999 in which we have made heavy sacrifices both in human and material and even if they give Ndigbo the presidency of Nigeria, it would not stop us from asking for Biafra.

He added, “Our ultimate goal is to actualise the sovereign state of Biafra no matter how long it takes us to do that but surely Biafra must be a reality. Today, if you ask any Igbo man or woman they will tell you that they want Biafra and not the president of Nigeria because they are already fed up with the injustice, inequality and discrimination against them simply because they are Igbo”

The BIM/MASSOB leader stressed that the agitation for the independent state of Biafra is already before the international community and the United Nations and that there is no going back on it.

On its part, the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) also said that they don’t want president of Nigeria either in 2019 or 2023, adding that such dream will only make Ndigbo to remain in perpetual slavery. It stressed that Biafra restoration is the only way to guarantee freedom, liberty, justice and equity for the Igbo race.

Media and Publicity Secretary of IPOB, Mr. Emma Powerful in his reaction vowed that the group will not abandon the struggle for Biafra because it was God’s project and would soon manifest.
Sun, February 11, 2017

 

 

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