File photo of IPOB Members
EKO HOT BLOG reports that a former governor of Anambra State, Chief Chukwuemeka Ezeife, on Saturday asked the Muhammadu Buhari administration to listen to the cries of IPOB and Biafra separatists.
According to Ezeife, “the present government has been behaving as though they want to push us out of Nigeria”.
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Biafra agitators often accuse the Nigerian government of marginalisation.
The elder statesman, nonetheless, harped on the need for a political solution to the Biafra agitation rather than carry on as though the issues behind the demand for secession by members of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), were inconsequential.
He was speaking when members of the Igbo Elders Consultative Forum met with a coalition of youth groups in the 19 Northern States and the FCT, under the aegis of Arewa Youth Federation (AYF), during an advocacy visit to his Abuja residence.
“We (Igbos) are committed to Nigeria, but the present government has been behaving as though they want to push us out of Nigeria, and our sons and young ones are crying. We must understand what IPOB is doing,” Ezeife said.
Speaking further on the controversial issue of secession calls by many persons in the south-east region, Ezeife categorically said:
“We (Igbos) don’t want to quit Nigeria. We are not going to quit Nigeria for any person. We built up this country. We are going to stay in this country to make it a powerhouse.”
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