Igbo Leaders of Thought, a group of prominent Igbo political leaders, rose from a meeting in Enugu State on Wednesday with a warning that President Goodluck Jonathan may become the last president of a united Nigeria, if politicians from the North East and North West continue to sponsor the activities of the Boko Haram sect.
The group maintained that the terror campaign of the sect was an ethno/religious war being waged by unnamed Northern political leaders who seek to take control of the Presidency.
The group, led by Prof. Ben Nwabueze, made this assertion in a statement by its Deputy Secretary, Evang. Elliot Uko, and the Leader of the Igbo Women Assembly, Chief Mrs Mariah Okwor.
They noted that the sponsors of the insurgency are inadvertently pushing Nigeria towards disintegration in their bid to make the country ungovernable towards actualising their quest for power.
The Igbo Leaders warned that, rather than succeed in their quest, the sponsors of the Boko Haram sect would only succeed in ensuring that Jonathan becomes Nigeria's last president.
The statement read in part: "We wish to draw the attention of the international community especially the United Nations, African Union and ECOWAS, to the ongoing daily attack on the foundation of the Nigerian state by a ruthless, barbaric and well oiled Islamist jihadist killing machine, is a political war funded and waged by ethno/religious bigots who believe that they are born with divine right to rule others perpetually.
"The fact that they are gradually axing the root that holds this country still standing, while at the same time stubbornly opposing the wishes of the vast majority of other ethnic nationalities for a restructured Nigeria, simply means that they are inadvertently tilting the country towards a dissolution whereafter they can have their "religiously pure" Islamic nation comprising the north east and north west zones of present Nigeria, but certainly without the central zone of Nigeria as their cannon fodder."
They insisted on the restructuring of Nigeria along six regional federating units.
They stressed that the ongoing national conference would have failed if it does not establish the foundation for regionalism.
They described the current 36-state structure as a "contraption for lion share of war booty" imposed on the country by Northern generals, an arrangement which enabled them to exercise absolute control over the country's resources.
"The continued existence of the country cannot be guaranteed if the national conference fails to adopt regionalism," they added.
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The masses of those regions need to free themselves from the fulani elites that have been abusing them. After all these decades that they ruled without question they awarded themselves oil blocks etc but did nothing for their subjects but poverty exploitation and ignorance. How can a whole region allow that kind of oppression?
ReplyDeletepart of your communique should be to ask Mr president to name the sponsors as he dine and gogorowine with them as he earlier clammed.
ReplyDeleteI will only take you people serious if your leaders in the East will not take Ghana must go bag before the election.
ReplyDeleteWe need action. People are dying daily. Please we need action. We need action. Look at soldiers in Aba imposing their marshall law while there is a governor.Soldiers humiliate and harrass people at will and even rape girls with reckless abandone. I just withnessed one right now at Immaculate road by umungasi. They chased people away from the scene. The girl wore black skirt and black and white top with a silver plaited hair. I CANT SLEEP. THIS IS CRAZY.
ReplyDeletePlease go to war again. Since after 16 years the north cannot rule again under united Nigeria lets see what will happen. So democracy is now southerners born to rule.
ReplyDeleteyes, nigeria days are numberd and dat is 2015.
ReplyDeleteGive south-west a chance again
ReplyDeleteThis is the right decision the Igbo leader has taken in the recent past. Restructuring the country into regions is the best option available to Nigerians at this time without bloodshed
ReplyDeleteas anortherner i feel the leaders are more fanatics
ReplyDeleteWho is afraid of break-up? Shuuuu let anything that God wants to do be done to his own glory.
ReplyDeleteI have been saying it all these years that there is no one Nigeria but those Igbo leaders who are benefiting from the contraption called Nigeria continue to shout one Nigeria while the Igbos dont have a place in Nigeria. That is why they dont want an Igbo man to become president.
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