The Indigenous People of Biafra,
IPOB, has said the President General of Ohanaeze Ndigbo, John Nwodo and South
East governors sacrificed its leader, Nnamdi Kanu to appease the North in order
to obtain political appointments.
IPOB noted that despite the
sacrifice, the President Muhammadu Buhari’s government has belittled and
humiliated people of the South East.
The group made the claim while
berating the organization over the failure of the Federal Government to replace
the sacked Secretary to the Government of the Federation, SGF, Babachir Lawal
with an Igbo man, “despite lobbying discreetly and openly.”
IPOB noted that in spite of the
“lobbying” Buhari still went ahead to replace Lawal with a fellow Northerner.
A statement signed by its
spokesperson, Emma Powerful reads, “We the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB)
under the command and leadership of Mazi Nnamdi Kanu the greatest prophet, seer
and visionary of all time, note with sadness and utter humiliation, the
belittling of Ohaneze Ndigbo, South East Governors and the entire Eastern
political class over the rejection of an Igbo man for the lowly position of the
Secretary to the Government of the Federation (SGF) by Buhari’s administration.
“Despite lobbying discreetly and
openly for this somewhat inconsequential position of SGF for months, the entire
political class in the South East were roundly rebuffed by Major General
Muhammadu Buhari, who instead gave the position to another Northerner. This has
left the supposed apex socio-cultural organisation to take to the pages of
newspaper to vent their frustrations at Buhari. A very unedifying spectacle
unworthy of leaders of a once proud and gifted race.
“To make matters worse, this
public rejection of Ohaneze Ndigbo and repudiation of the values of the Igbo
political elite by the Buhari administration is confirmation, if such were
needed, that the hasty proscription and banning of IPOB was a costly mistake on
their part. They failed to appreciate that without the impetus and urgency that
IPOB provided, any request made to the Government of Nigeria to right the
injustices meted out to Easterners is bound to fail.
“Chief Nnia Nwodo and the 5 South
East governors should, without delay, apologise to the people for misleading
them into thinking that sacrificing IPOB and Nnamdi Kanu will appease the core
North to the extent of granting them their sole wish of Igbo political
appointments into Buhari’s administration.
“It is imperative to state for
record purposes, that it was the proscription of IPOB by Ohaneze Ndigbo and
South East governors that gave the military the impetus to hastily tag IPOB a
terrorist organisation. We must not also forget that it was this same request
for political appointment into the office of the SGF that led Ohaneze and South
East governors to sanction Operation Python Dance II with its attending deaths
and imprisonment without trial of IPOB family members.
“Our ancestors will be turning in
their graves to think that the blood of 92 young men and women- 28 of them
killed in Kanu’s compound, were sacrificed for the promise of mere political
appointment that never materialised. This is the worst humiliation our people
have had to endure for nearly 50 years. A once proud race has been reduced,
through poor political calculation, to trading the blood of their children in
exchange for nonexistent political appointment.
“Hopefully this humiliating
episode in the history of our people will teach all and sundry a lesson that
leadership requires a lot more than making yourself acceptable to your enemies
in return for material gain. Freedom is a painstaking and arduous process of
sacrifice, even when it may appear expedient to take the compromised easy way
out.
“With this shameful episode, the
Igbo political class have now lost out on every front, because they chose to
destroy the only hope of the people, IPOB, just to prove to Arewa core North
how loyal they are. As at today, Igbo political actors don’t have independence,
they don’t have confederation, they don’t have much vaunted restructuring, no
second Niger Bridge, Enugu-Port Harcourt Expressway is not fully rehabilitated,
Enugu-Onitsha Expressway is getting worse by the day, no infrastructural
development and finally their much cherished SGF has eluded them too.
“They can now see that only IPOB
has the solution to the plethora of problems bedevilling our people in Nigeria
today. It is never too late for Ohaneze Ndigbo leadership and South East
Governors to say they got their priorities wrong.”
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You and your stupid IPOB full of touts should go and look for work
ReplyDeleteAndrew Tweedie, just to let you know that they don't have to sacrifice Nnamdi Kanu in other to get jobs.
ReplyDeleteNnamdi Kanu was warned about how he was handling the Biafra issue he refused to listen even to the elders who should advise him. He is like the Biblical Rehoboam. And now when the people shouted ‘To your tents Oh Israel’, the same youths are turning around to blame the elders. An Igbo proverb says that what a child needs to climb a tree to see an old man can see sitting on the ground. It may take long but you can negotiate Biafra round a table, same applies to a better place for the Igbos in Nigeria. The youth should learn to ask for advise. Everything is not by force. A word is enough for the wise.
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