BREAKING NEWS: ‘We welcome Buhari’s declaration that any Nigerian can leave’
The Indigenous People of Biafra, on Wednesday, reacted to President
Muhammadu Buhari’s declaration that any Nigerian who has another country
to relocate to should do so.
Buhari made the statement at a meeting with Niger Delta leaders in the Presidential Villa, Abuja, on Tuesday.
“We are determined to make life comfortable and affordable to all
Nigerians. If anybody has a country to go to, let him go, we will stay
here and salvage our country,” the President said.
However, reacting to the development, IPOB said it welcomed Buhari’s statement.
The secessionist group said the statement shows that Buhari was
already considering what it described as the ‘inevitable disintegration
of Nigeria’.
IPOB spoke in a statement entitled, “IPOB welcomes Muhammadu Buhari’s
declaration on the impending disintegration of Nigeria, but says no to
conditions”, which was jointly signed by Barrister Emma Mmezu and Dr.
Clifford Iroanya.
The pro-Biafra group said, “We the IPOB are delighted with the
comments attributed to retired Major-General Muhammadu Buhari, who seems
to have bowed to international pressure to consider the inevitable
disintegration of Nigeria, though with conditions we find inconsistent
with common sense and logic.”
However, the group accused Buhari of attempting to exclude the Niger Delta from Biafra.
The statement added, “We observed that hidden in the statements of
Buhari are two evil agendas: First evil agenda is that Buhari made this
statement in a meeting he had with Biafrans from the riverine or
southern part of Biafra which the Hausa-Fulani oligarchy nicknamed
South-South or Niger-Delta.
“The underlying objective in Buhari’s statement is to create the
impression that the South-South is not part of Biafraland, hence the
upland areas of Biafra, Igbo, can leave Nigeria while the riverine areas
Ibibio, Efik, Izon, Itshekiri, Urhobo, Isoko will remain part of
Nigeria.”
IPOB stressed that the struggle for Biafra has nothing to do with the oil in the Niger Delta area.
The group stressed there is oil extraction activities in parts of Imo, Anambra and Abia states.
“Successive governments of Nigeria have continued to deceive the
gullible public that the reason we, IPOB, are agitating for Biafra is
because of oil in the Niger Delta region, without making obvious the
fact that oil was first found in commercial quantity in Imo State before
Oloibiri in Bayelsa State.
“Sadly many people are still ignorant of the fact that active oil and
gas extraction is happening today in Anambra, Imo, Abia and Igbo parts
of Rivers State,” the statement added.
IPOB further accused the Federal Government of giving a ‘false’
impression that the people of the Niger Delta believed in the concept of
‘one Nigeria
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