$22.6bn Loan: IPOB Berates Southeast Leaders

The Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, weekend, berated Southeast governors, senators and the Ohaneze Ndigbo for begging the federal government to include the zone in the disbursement of the $22.6bn loan recently approved for President Muhammedu Buhari by the Senate.

IPOB, in a press release issued by its media and publicity secretary, Comrade Emma Powerful, said such move was an indication of their ignorance of the realities of the Nigerian federalism.

According to Emma Powerful, ‘despite years of bootlicking and willful submission to the hegemonic whims of the Fulani caliphate, these minions are yet to realise that Nigeria is not one and can never be’.

The release read in part, “It is a thing of shame that a people so blessed and endowed by God Almighty will so humiliatingly reduce their status to that of beggers instead of fighting for what is rightfully theirs.

“We the global family of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) will continue to openly condemn such brazen act(s) of shameless humiliation by the Efulefu political class domiciled in Abuja and Lagos. The unconscionable Fulani political class continue to squander the resources of the people of Biafra in the name of one Nigeria through a combination of chronic economic mismanagement, unfathomable corruption and warped politics of vindictiveness that vested the power of allocation of funds in hands of three Fulani men in Abuja.”

It adds that, “With the notable exception of Senator Enyinnaya Abaribe, these senators and political lightweights in Abuja should stop making a mockery of the great nation of Biafra because of their self serving need to appear relevant. This latest Fulani caliphate move to exclude some regions and people, they feel they cannot control, in their ‘sharing’ formula, is a clear demonstration that Biafrans are not and will never be considered an integral part of Nigeria. We are not wanted in their Nigeria. How we wish Dr. Azikiwe were alive to see what mess he bequethed to future generations. Had Dr. Azikiwe been endowed with the divine gift of visionary leadership and wisdom, he would have aligned with Chief Obafemi Awolowo and allowed Sir Ahmadu Bello and the rest of his core Arewa north to secede from the rest of the British colony of Nigeria in the 1950s as they so desperately wanted to.

“We are calling on Biafrans, including those senators, governors and Ohaneze Ndigbo to stop reducing the integrity and honour of Biafrans, particularly Ndigbo, because their Fulani masters that contribute nothing – absolute zero to the economy of Nigeria – have decided to remove them from their sharing formula. This is the reality and the sooner other ethnic groups see this in Nigeria, the better their lives will be.”