The
declaration was made during their summit at Arondizuogu in Imo State. The
groups included Arewa Youths Forum, Arewa Youths Coalition for Peace, Northern
Central Youth Club, as well as Youths for One Nigeria, among others.
Youth from
the northern region, said they would back the Southeast region to produce the
president of Nigeria in 2019, adding that their support would weaken the
agitations for a Biafra Republic in the country.
This came as
the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, said it has successfully launched a new
Radio Nigeria Hausa station for the oppressed people of the North. According to
IPOB, the new station would start its maiden broadcast by 7pm tomorrow on Short
Wave 15110 KHz 19 Meter Band, and would be received in the West, East and
Southern Africa.
Speaking on
their support for Igbo presidency, the Spokesperson of Arewa Youths, Alhaji
Haruna Waziri, revealed that the convener of the youth summit, Mr Iheanachor
Ezeakor, has been endorsed by the group for 2019 presidency. Part of the reason
given by Waziri, was that with an Igbo man as president of Nigeria, Biafran
agitations would be slackened, while peace and unity of the country would be
strengthened.
He said:
“Today, we are making history by endorsing a youth to run for the number one
seat in Nigeria.
Mr Iheanacho Ezeakor is a youth, who has broken the barriers
of ethnicity and religion, a youth the Northern youths believe in; a youth who
is a true Nigerian. “We do not believe in things not working out; we believe
that this is the time to change the narrative in Nigeria.
This
community, Arondizuogu is a place where democracy started in the country and
that is why we are here today to correct all that had gone wrong. “We made this
statement in Enugu, Lagos and Abuja; today the climax of it all is taking place
in Ezeakor’s village here in Arondizuogu. “We took this step because our
leaders have failed us; they are old and tired; we can do it because the youths
contribute the major votes.
“It is no
longer about ethnicity or religion now; it is about who you have confidence in.
Ezeakor is a detribalized Nigerian; we don’t want fanatics; we want a true
Nigerian.”
Waziri was of
the view that Ezeakor’s victory will not only quell the agitations for Biafra, but will also
further unite Nigerians, whether from the South or the North,” he noted.
Ezeakor who accepted to run for presidency, said he was not going to do that on
the platform of PDP or APC, saying that the parties were for old politicians.
He hinted
that he was going to tell Nigerians soon the party on which he would vie for
the presidency.
Ezeakor said:
“So, I’m just acting as the catalyst, to motivate the youths; we are not
fighting the government, but we want them to understand that we have come of
age.
“My own as
the convener of Nigerian Youth Summit is to make sure that things will not
remain the same because we can’t continue with the arrangement that youths are
the leaders of tomorrow.” IPOB launches new Radio Nigeria Hausa Service Meantime,
IPOB has said that its new Radio Hausa station would expose all the
misinformation and manipulations by northern leaders to keep the Indigenous
Populations of Northern Nigeria, IPNN, backward in a bid to continue to oppress
and lord over them.
This was
contained in a statement signed by the Media and Publicity Secretary of IPOB,
Comrade Emma Powerful. It also said
that those with the illusion that IPOB had been weakened by the absence of its
leader, Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, would be disappointed this year, as it would soon
increase the tempo of its activities.
The statement
read, “In keeping with our promise to facilitate the creation of an unbiased
and informative platform to take the message of liberation to the down trodden
and oppressed Indigenous Populations of Northern Nigeria, we the family members
of the IPOB, worldwide and it’s indomitable leadership, wish to happily
announce the official launch of the much anticipated IPOB sponsored Radio
Nigeria Hausa Service.
“The maiden
daily broadcast will hit the airwaves on Saturday, January 6, 2018 at 7pm
Nigerian time on Short Wave 15110 KHz 19 Meter Band.” “The broadcast will have
the widest coverage of any radio signal in Africa. It will be received all over
West, East and Southern Africa.
“Every Hausa
speaking community in Africa will be able to receive it. In our opinion, we
feel it has become imperative to educate the poor masses of northern Nigeria,
whom the ruling class have cleverly enslaved and impoverished… by keeping vital
information and knowledge away from them. This information deficit is what
Radio Nigeria Hausa Service has come to remedy.
“All the
hitherto hidden history of the conquest of indigenous Hausa speaking
populations of the North will be laid bare for the world to know. More importantly,
enslaved minorities of Arewa North, brutally savaged by Fulani terrorist
herdsmen, through this unbiased platform, will acquire the necessary education
needed to liberate themselves from the suffocating stranglehold of the
caliphate or the born to rule class.
“What we hope
to demonstrate through the launch of this liberation radio station is to prove
beyond every conceivable doubt that IPOB is not a selfish movement concerned
only about the well-being of Biafrans, but are also genuinely concerned about
the plight of all oppressed people in Nigeria as stated by our leader Mazi
Nnamdi Kanu on countless occasions.
“Regardless
of ethnicity, religion or creed, IPOB is pursuing an agenda of freedom for all.
Our message is very simple, 2018 will be like no other in the history of
Nigeria and will prove to be the year of liberation for those brave enough to
confront the evil that Nigeria has become in the lives of millions of people.
“Our quest
for the total and unadulterated liberation of Biafraland is unstoppable; this
we shall demonstrate in the coming months. Those deluding themselves with the
laughable and perverse notion that IPOB has been weakened because of the
absence of our leader are in for a shock.
“This move
today is the beginning of a mass revolution against our oppressors that will
spread outside the borders of Biafra land. “The coming of this new
revolutionary Radio Nigeria Hausa Service will expose centuries old/ dark
secrets through education of the oppressed Hausa Fulani youths that IPOB and Biafra
mean well for them contrary to the lies being peddled by their corrupt
leadership.
“We will not
fail to let all Northern youths understand that their political leaders, elders
and fathers like those in Biafra land are the real oppressors that have, over
the years, kept them in the dark through a carefully crafted and systematic
regime of misinformation and propagation of falsehood. Every Hausa speaking
Northerner is advised to tune to 15110 KHz every night from 7 pm, starting from
this Saturday, January 6, 2018, to be educated in order to be liberated.”
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