Press Release
IPOB WELCOMES MUHAMMADU BUHARI’S DECLARATION ON THE
IMPENDING DISINTEGRATION OF NIGERIA BUT SAYS NO TO CONDITIONS
We at IPOB are delighted with the comments attributed to the
maximum ruler of Nigeria, Retired Major-General Muhamadu Buhari, who seem to have
bowed to international pressure to consider the inevitable disintegration of
Nigeria, though with conditions we find inconsistent with common sense and
logic. According to Buhari, “any Nigerian is free to leave the country if they
have another one.” Buhari also stated that “If anybody has a country to go to,
let him go, we will stay here and salvage our country.” It is crystal clear
that Buhari has seen the futility of fighting against a determined people who
are bent on restoring their God given nation which was unjustly robbed them by
slave merchants later turned colonialists.
From all indications, Buhari must have consulted with his
colonial backers and religious handlers in Arabia who perhaps have taken the
time to school him on the sanctity of the United Nations Declaration on the
Rights of Indigenous People (UNDRIP), the inviolability and irreducibility of
the rights of Indigenous People to self-determination.
However, we observed that hidden in the statements of Buhari
are two evil agendas. First evil agenda is that Buhari made this statement in a
meeting he had with Biafrans from the riverine or southern part of Biafra which
the Hausa-Fulani oligarchy nicknamed South-South or Niger-Delta. The underlying
objective in Buhari’s statement is to create the impression that the so-called
South-South is not part of Biafraland, hence the upland areas of Biafra (Igbo)
can leave Nigeria while the riverine areas (Ibibio, Efik, Izon, Itshekiri,
Urhobo, Isoko) will remain part of Nigeria. The plan is to trap the riverine
areas of Biafraland in Nigeria to enable Buhari and his Hausa-Fulani oligarchy
continue the shameless exploitation and stealing of Biafra’s natural resources
which they have always used and will continue to use to develop the Arewa
region of Nigeria.
The only surprise is that Buhari and his handlers did not
include the rich Orient oil fields of Anambra River Basin, the high-yield
Shell-operated Egbema oil fields in Imo State, the abundant gas reserves at
Ohaji also in Imo State and the Shell-operated Ukwa deep oil well in Abia State
in their so-called South-South/Niger Delta.
Successive governments of Nigeria have continued to deceive
the gullible public that the reason we (IPOB) are agitating for Biafra is
because of oil in the Niger Delta region, without making obvious the fact that
oil was first found in commercial quantity in Imo State before Oloibiri in
Bayelsa State. Sadly many people are still ignorant of the fact that active oil
and gas extraction is happening today in Anambra, Imo, Abia and Igbo parts of
Rivers State. It is pertinent we make clear to all and sundry that while oil
may motivate the Arewa North to seek One Nigeria because they cannot live
without it due to their lazy parasitic nature, in Biafraland and in the new
Biafra we shall place 100% emphasis on human capital development, not on
natural occurring minerals.
For a country to pin the hopes of its entire economic policy
and well-being on a finite natural resource is indicative of the level of
intellectual backwardness of the self-arrogating "elites" that run
the economy of the colonial contraption known as Nigeria. We, the Indigenous
People of Biafra, believe that the greatest natural resource a people can be
endowed with is their brain not what is under the ground.
We must stress for purposes of sound knowledge that there is
no known geographical cardinal point in any geography text book or academic
literature or any part of this world called “South-South” except in Nigeria.
This unique un-academic introduction of a new cardinal point called
“South-South” was created by the Hausa-Fulani oligarchy to serve their divide
and rule interests. With this dichotomy, they intend to continue to own
virtually all the oil blocks in Biafraland including those at Anambra, Imo,
Abia and Igbo parts of Rivers State. But the same Hausa-Fulani natural-born
rulers of Nigeria refused to create corresponding cardinal points of
“North-north” and “West-west.” Sensible people must ask themselves why this is
the case.
The Hausa-Fulani ruling class carefully created this unique
cardinal point of “South-South” to drive an everlasting wedge between the
upland and riverine areas of Biafraland. Furthermore, the “South-South” is not
contained in any part of the Constitution of Nigeria nor is it any of the Acts
of Parliament or Laws of the Federal Republic of Nigeria (L.F.N.).
The second evil agenda of Buhari is that by making such
statements before these respected leaders from the riverine area of Biafraland,
he is creating the false impression that he has obtained the consent of the
people of Southern Biafra to build the Nigeria of his dreams. Buhari in so
doing is giving a misleading signal that Biafrans from the riverine areas have
bought into his deceptive and foundationally disastrous “One Nigeria” project.
By gathering a few Biafrans from the riverine areas and
saying that “those who don’t want to be part of Nigeria should leave,” Buhari
hopes to convince the world that those Biafrans he was addressing at Aso Rock
believe in the “oneness” of the British colony Nigeria he is assiduously
pursuing.
We, the Indigenous People of Biafra, at this point would
wish to categorically inform Buhari that since we already have our blessed
nation Biafra created by the Most High God not man; we do not need the
temporary country called Nigeria created by a white man Frederick Luggard for
his amusement and economic exploitation.
We wish to further inform Buhari that Indigenous People of
Biafra do not desire to regress from the status of a nation-state to that of a
country artificially created by the British with divergent and irreconcilable
value systems. Even today nations that make up Britain like Scotland and Wales
are agitating, as we Biafrans are, to establish their own nation-state outside
Britain, so why should Nigeria that is created by a white British man be immune
to similar demands being made by Biafrans?
We were Biafrans before the British Government through the
instrumentality of the Royal Niger Company forced us into this contraption
christened Nigeria by Flora Shaw at the time the mistress of Frederick Luggard.
Buhari professes his faith in Islam and belief that a woman's position in
society is limited to the confines of the kitchen yet his anti-women rhetoric
does not extend to the abolition of the name Nigeria because that name for
which he has killed millions, was given by an unmarried white woman to the
unfortunate people known today as Nigerians. Buhari, Gowon and other
genocidists should be ashamed of themselves and their supposed proud African
heritage for their role in the death of millions of Biafrans killed in order to
preserve a colony created by a white man in black Africa and named by a white
woman not a black African man or woman.
Fortunately, we have not lost our sense of indigenous
identity or nationhood as some commentators would have us believe. Therefore,
we are very happy to hear from Buhari that he has at last come to terms with
the folly of trying to continue to deploy the brutality of the Nigerian
military to force us, Indigenous People of Biafra, to be Nigerians against our
wish. Hence we welcome with open arms the declaration of Major-General
Muhammadu Buhari that we Biafrans are now free to leave the contraption called
Nigeria and go home to rebuild our battered but blessed nation of Biafra. We
hope that Buhari will now stop his wholesale massacre, arrest and illegal detention
of peaceful and unarmed Indigenous People of Biafra and hurry to free the
leader of Indigenous People of Biafra, Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, and other illegally
detained prisoners of conscience.
We look forward to Buhari and his Hausa-Fulani owners of
"One Nigeria" making arrangements for a bipartisan meeting of Arewa
dominated Nigeria and Indigenous People of Biafra for the purpose of
determining the modalities and date of a Biafrexit referendum to determine the
will of the people once and for all time.
For once, Buhari has spoken reasonably well though his
conditions of carving out of the riverine areas of Biafraland into his “One
Nigeria” dream in the classic divide and rule mindset is not acceptable to us,
the Indigenous People of Biafra. Buhari needs to come to terms with the fact
that IPOB will not leave any part of Biafraland, from the plains of Idomaland
to the shorelines of Opobo Kingdom, to become a conquered territory like the
Yoruba-owned Ilorin which today is under Caliphate rule answerable to the Sultan
of Sokoto and not the Ooni of Ife.
The restoration of the nation of Biafra is irrevocably
sacrosanct and irreversible, no amount of gamesmanship on the part of Buhari
and his colonial handlers can stop it.
Biafra or Death!!!
Signed
Barrister Emma Nmezu
Dr. Clifford Chukwuemeka Iroanya
Spokesperson for IPOB
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