The leadership of the Movement
for a Sovereign State of Biafra has called on its members to obtain their
permanent voter’s card.
A statement issued in Owerri, the
Imo State capital on Friday by MASSOB National Secretary, Ibem Ugwuoke, said
that the decision to order its members to register for PVCs was reached in a
meeting presided over by its leader, Uchenna Madu.
The statement said that the PVC
would be useful for MASSOB in the nearest future in its quest for a sovereign
state, not just for election in 2019.
“MASSOB orders all Biafrans that
are constitutionally eligible to vote to immediately go for voter registration
card in the nearest INEC office. That possession of the Nigeria’s voter card is
not merely for Nigeria’s elections only but for Biafra Referendum as the only
identification card for eligibility of the people that will determine the
future of Biafra actualisation through a United Nations observed referendum.
“Boycotting voters registration
and non possession of the voters card is a self inflicted decision for any
future referendum on the self determination for sovereignty of a state.
“That for a proposed statehood of
Biafra to be ordered and declared by United Nations, the voting population of
Biafrans through the registration and possession of the voter card must be
captured in the national demography of the existing political entity (Nigeria)
from which the voting population of the coming statehood (Biafra) is seeking
for a separation.
“That it is never an all comers
affairs, even if United Nations comes in the existing mother country(Nigeria)
to conduct and supervise a referendum that will determine the future of Biafra,
she still has a critical role to play. The registration and possession of the
voter card is for the Biafra referendum.
“MASSOB calls for review of the
current voters registration exercise because the entire permanent voters
registration exercise is fraudulently dubious schemed to favour only the
northern region. INEC patterned the exercise to include even underaged children.
“We saw even as underaged persons
of northern origin below 18 years registered by INEC for 2019 general
elections. With these INEC sponsored trend of registering underaged persons
from northern region, MASSOB will never allow elections to hold in eastern
region in 2019.
“MASSOB still believes and
anchors on our principle of non violence towards all our approaches to Biafra
actualisation and restoration. We don’t believe in arms struggle, we shall
abide by all the principles and charters of United Nation declaration on the
Rights of Indigenous People and African Charter on the Human Rights of
Indigenous People,” the statement read.
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