Presidential candidate of the
African Action Congress in the last election, Omoyele Sowore, has berated Igbos
for allowing President Muhammadu Buhari to campaign in the South East during
the electioneering period.
Sowore said that former President
Olusegun Obasanjo and Buhari do not deserve to enter the South East region
because they participated in the civil war and killed so many Igbos.
He called on the Nigerian
government to deliver justice for Biafrans.
Sowore made the call while
responding to a question on the Biafran agitation when he spoke in a town hall
meeting organised by the Take It Back Movement in Greece.
Sowore said, “People are
agitating for Biafra because they are looking for justice, the kind of justice
that eluded them before the war, during the war and after the war.
“If they are guaranteed the
justice that they are looking for, Nigeria is too small for Igbos. Igbos have
conquered the world in terms of sports, business and professionalism.
“There is nowhere you go to in
America that you don’t find them in health care and sports, the same with the
Yoruba and the Hausa but in their situation, the Igbo’s were unjustly
oppressed, killed, destroyed and emasculated within the Nigerian nation.
“The biggest error, however, is
that Biafran leaders are very quick to vote for people who participated in the
war.
“Didn’t Buhari participate in the
war? Why was he allowed to even campaign in the East? Didn’t Obasanjo
participate in the war?
“Every time there is an
opportunity to have a new President that comes from the South-east, the first
people they will bring to reject it are South-easterners. When Babangida wanted
to leave, it was Nzeribe who said he must stay forever.
“When Abacha wanted to remain in
power, they brought strong men for the East to endorse his continued stay. When
Obasanjo wanted to elongate his tenure for three terms, it was one Odumegwu who
used to be in Nigerian Breweries that was leading the agenda.
“But my question is, why can’t we
find someone from the South-east who can do a better job?
“Why are they ahead of everybody
saying this Yoruba person must not leave power, when is power going to reach
the South East if each time there is an opening, you say the person who is there
must continue?
“We must review the position of
these leaders.
“The conversation about Biafra
must be about how we can save our general humanity,” he concluded.
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