President Muhammdu Buhari
in an interview with Martine Dennis of Al Jazeera in Qatar said: “Looking for
Biafra after two millions people were killed, they are joking with the security
and Nigeria won’t tolerate Biafra.” But in a response to Buhari’s remark Emma
Mmezu and Dr Clifford Iroanya, spokespersons of IPOB said that Biafra would
also not tolerate Nigeria, Vanguard reports.
Mmezu and Iroanya who spoke
for the organisation in a statement entitled “Response to Ohanaeze and Buhari’s
disparaging remarks about Biafra on Al Jazeera,” said: “We wish to reiterate
for record purposes that our leader, Mazi Nnamdi Kanu has not mandated Ohanaeze
or any youth group to negotiate for his release. “The agitation for Biafra is a
long and arduous process and the entire IPOB family all over the world
understands this approach as espoused by our detained leader. “We have not come
to merely agitate, we have come to restore or die in the process.
Some people think we are
joking or can be easily dissuaded from this divine path that God-Chukwu Okike
Abhiama has mandated us to follow. “Any negotiation on Biafra must be led by
Nnamdi Kanu and nobody else. If roads, bridges and a few junior staff at Aso
Rock are our problems as Biafrans, then IPOB worldwide can fund such infrastructural
development alone and very soon, we shall do it. Our quest is Biafra- nothing
more, nothing less.
“On the issue of Buhari’s
Aljazeera interview on Biafra, we welcome his comments because Biafra would not
also tolerate Nigeria. Lord Lugard created Nigeria not Chukwu Okike Abhiama,
God Almighty. So, like USSR, it will collapse. “We, the IPOB Worldwide have
decided not to go back on the quest for restoration of Biafra. Nigeria is not
bigger than USSR just as Buhari is not stronger than Michael Gobachev. Buhari
can kill Biafrans as he did during the 1967 to 1970 civil war, but this time,
it will not be the same.”
The declaration of the
Independent Republic of Biafra in 1967 caused a civil war that resulted in the
death of millions and the re-annexation of the republic to Nigeria in 1970. And
following the recent demands for the Republic of Biafra, the administration of
President Buhari has maintained the separation of the Biafrans and territories
is against the constitution.
Al Jazeera
Vanguard
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