No Human Being Can Stop Biafra, IPOB Tells Buhari
The Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), has reacted to the recent comment made by President Muhammadu Buhari that the unity of Nigeria remained non-negotiable.
IPOB, in a statement by its Media and Publicity Secretary, Emma Powerful, reiterated its position, insisting that no human being can stop the actualisation of Biafra.
“It is unfortunate that somebody in that cadre cannot ascertain and did not know that the situation in the country now calls for unity renegotiation.
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“The colonial masters amalgamated the northern and southern protectorates together without consultation in 1914 and now no section of the country wants to stay with each other.
“It is embarrassing that the present government doesn’t have good advisers who have knowledge of the precarious situation the country is facing.
“We IPOB have decided not to go back in the quest for the restoration of Biafra and no human being can bring us back because it is the project of (Chukwuokike Abiama) God Almighty.
“Anybody who betrays this noble project will die mysteriously because God is spirit not man.”
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President Buhari had, on July 6, 2016, told militants who have constantly vandalised oil installations in the oil-rich Niger Delta that the unity of Nigeria remained non-negotiable.
The Igbo socio-cultural organisation, Ohanaeze Ndigbo, as well as the pan-Yoruba socio-political group, Afenifere, both dismissed Buhari’s claims, insisting that the country’s unity was “very negotiable.”
In an interview with Punch, the National Publicity Secretary of Afenifere, Yinka Odumakin, was quoted saying:
“To continue to insist that the unity is not negotiable is aping that bird which buries its head in the sand and believes, because it is seeing nobody, it has become invisible too.”
Whereas the President of the Ohanaeze Youth Council, Mazi Okechukwu Isiguzoro, said:
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“We (Ohanaeze Ndigbo) believe that Nigeria’s unity is negotiable. The principles and structures on the co-existence of the various nationalities that make up the country should be reviewed periodically. ”
Meanwhile, Nigerian playwright and poet, Professor Wole Soyinka, had previously slammed suggestions that the country’s unity was non-negotiable , where he urged the Federal Government to embrace dialogue in handling the agitation for the Republic of Biafra.
