Some veteran Biafra soldiers have declared
that they worked assiduously for the victory of President Muhammadu Buhari in
the 2019 presidential election.
They claimed to be responsible
for the increase in the number of votes cast for Buhari, which enabled him to
emerge winner of the last election.
Addressing journalists yesterday
in Nnewi, Anambra State, spokesperson for the group, Lt. Lawrence Egbeigwe
(retd.) also declared their support for Buhari due to his anti-corruption
crusade.
He said: “Biafran old soldiers
decided to support President Buhari because of his anti-corruption crusade
which has started yielding positive dividends for the nation.
“We decided to speak up, to place
on record our monumental support for the President during the election before
some unscrupulous politicians will take glory for other people’s efforts.
“We have congratulated Mr
President on his re-election. We, however, urge him to take the war against
corruption to the next level of getting a judgment against fraudulent
individuals who plunged the nation into her present downturn.
“President Buhari is the only one
among the presidents of the country that has shown transparency with the Abacha
loot; his predecessors were not transparent with the loot.
“Before Buhari came on board,
Nigeria had assumed a worrisome and notorious status of being the most corrupt
nation in the world. Corruption became the official language of Nigerians.
“It became so bad that Nigerians
were made to pass through harrowing experience whenever they wanted to travel
outside the country, but the narrative has changed since Buhari came on board.”
The Biafran old soldiers also
called on the attention of Buhari to their entitlements which has not been paid
since the civil war ended in 1970.
“We worked for President Buhari
to emerge victorious in the 2019 general elections and it is expedient that he
looks into our case, which has become an issue of the political campaign during
every election period.
“It is corruption that is
responsible for successive governments paying old soldiers that are from the
North, West and South but allowing men and officers of Igbo extraction to
suffer lack and abject poverty,” Egbeigwe added.
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