By Chidi Nkwopara Biafran Elders Council, yesterday, faulted the decision of the apex Igbo socio- cultural group, Ohanaeze Ndi...
By Chidi Nkwopara
Biafran Elders Council, yesterday, faulted the decision of
the apex Igbo socio- cultural group,
Ohanaeze Ndigbo and some politicians of Igbo extraction, for seeking a Nigerian
president of Igbo extraction instead of an independent state.
The group made their position known in a communiqué they
issued after their monthly plenary, presided over by its chairman, Chief
Solomon Ordu Chukwu, held at Dim Chukwuemeka Ojukwu Library, Owerri.
The Elders also opined that what Ndigbo need now is a total change of system and not change
of individual or who is at the helm of affairs in Nigeria.
The communiqué, which was read by the National Director for
Special Duties, Chief Arinze Igbani and signed by the Biafran Director for
Information, Elder Chris Mocha, equally dismissed Ohanaeze Ndigbo’s stand,
stressing that “Ndigbo have suffered untold hardships in the Nigeria project”.
While lamenting that it was an Igbo man, Dr. Nnamdi Azikiwe,
that fought tirelessly for Nigeria’s
independence in 1960 but was not trusted enough to rule the country, the
Biafran Elders equally recalled that as
the Governor General before Nigeria’s independence, he was merely made a
ceremonial President, thus ceding all the powers to Alhaji Tafawa Balewa, a
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“Those who are
dogmatically insisting on one Nigeria are poor students of history and either that they are benefiting from the
current gravely flawed system or are
intellectually dishonest and lacking in creative imagination”, the Elders said.
The group observed that real democracy confers on the
people, the power to determine their political future, including the demand for
self-determination, if the existing
political arrangements are not
delivering security and well-being to
the citizenry, adding that “Nigeria today has failed in every aspect of
governance, especially the security of lives and property, which is the primary
duty of every government”.
Biafran Elders urged Ohanaeze Ndigbo and Igbo politicians to
stop pushing their campaign for Nigeria’s president of Igbo extraction to look like it is agenda of
the south East zone, stressing that 95 percent of Ndigbo have lost hope in
Nigeria and have opted for Biafra republic instead.
The group said: “Neither restructuring nor Nigerian president of Igbo extraction can save it.
How can Nigeria be one when Hausa/Fulani
are still claiming superiority over others? How can Nigeria be one when
Biafrans are being killed on daily basis by the state sponsored-militias?
How can Nigeria remain one when the North practice Sharia
Laws and are convicting and sentencing Christians with
different beliefs to death by hanging
for singing a song they described as blasphemy against Prophet Mohammed?”
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