Enugu – Igbo Leaders of Thought including governors, individuals from the National Assembly, NASS, the authority of Ohanaeze Ndigbo, conventional rulers and church pioneers met at Enugu Sunday night and swore their help for a rebuilt however joined Nigeria where there would be equity, value and decency.
. President Yemi Osinbajo trading merriments with Former Finance Minister, Kalu Idika Kalu (l) amid the meeting between the Presidency at South east Leaders of Thought at the State House, Abuja. Photograph by Abayomi Adeshida
The Movement for the Actualization of the Sovereign State of Biafra, MASSOB, has in any case, dismisses the resistance of the Igbo pioneers to the part of the nation, saying that the pioneers were helping the Nigerian government to postpone the fast approaching deterioration of the nation.
The pioneer of MASSOB, Comrade Uchenna Madu, put forth this known in an announcement in Enugu, Sunday, focusing on that the pioneers had dependably evaded the issues that that had fuelled the Biafra tumult, at whatever point they had the chance to sit with the administration authorities.
Madu said "we are not intrigued by rebuilding of Nigeria in light of the fact that the establishment and aim of setting up Nigeria as a state does not support rebuilding."
Notwithstanding, the individuals who went to the Igbo pioneers' meeting incorporated the President General of Ohanaeze Ndigbo, Chief Nnia Nwodo, all the five governors of South East geopolitical zone driven by Chief Dave Umahi of Ebonyi State, Hon Ifeanyi Ugwanyi (Enugu), Chief Willie Obiano (Anambra); Owelle Rochas Okorocha (Imo), Dr Okezie Ikpeazu (Abia), individuals from the National Assembly and also the previous Chief of General Staff, CGS, amid the General Ibrahim Babangida's organization, Commodore Ebitu Ukiwe, retd.
They likewise incorporated the Deputy Senate President, Ike Ekweremadu, previous Senate President, Ken Nnamani, Chairman of South East Caucus in the National Assembly, Senator Enyinnaya Abaribe, previous Governor of the Central Bank, CBN, Prof Chukwuma Soludo, Senator Sam Egwu, the Catholic Bishop of Nsukka, Prof Godfrey Onah, the Archbishop of Enugu Diocese of the Anglican Communion, Dr Emmanuel Chukwuma, the Obi of Onitsha, Igwe Nnaemeka Achebe, the National Chairman of the United People's Party, UPP, Chief Chekwas Okorie, Prof Barth Nnaji, Mrs. Josephine Aneni, and Senator Gill Nnaji among others.
In a report perused by the Chairman of the South East Governors' Forum, Chief Dave Umahi, after the meeting which kept going till the early hours of Sunday, the Igbo pioneers proclaimed their full help for a unified Nigeria, where peace, equity, love and reasonableness ruled.
The seven-point report read, "This a dispatch emerging from a meeting of South East governors, individuals from National Assembly, Ohanaeze Ndigbo, our conventional fathers, profound fathers and some chose Igbo pioneers of Thought on the condition of the Nation. It was held today, the first day of July, 2017 at Nike Lake Resort Hotel, Enugu.
"We pondered on various issues and we landed at the followings: That Ndigbo are in full help of a unified Nigeria, where peace, adore, reasonableness, equity, value and equity of chances are principal, paying little respect to statement of faith, ethnicity, sex or political alliance.
"We censure all abhor talks and wrongdoings from any sections of the nation. That Igbo pioneers loan their full help to the rebuilding of the government republic of Nigeria on the stage of reasonableness and value. We thusly approach the national government and every single Nigerian pioneer to begin a procedure of discourse among Nigerians on the modalities of accomplishing this squeezing question inside a sensible time span.
"That Ndigbo bolster the report of the National Conference of 2014 and we ask the central government to set up structures that will empower the usage of the same inside a sensible time.
"That the South East Governors, individuals from the National Assembly, administration from the south east and the initiative of Ohanaeze Ndigbo should hereafter constitute the official organs that might talk in the interest of Ndigbo.
"That south east pioneers in discussion with different parts of the nation, will set up a board of trustees to draw in the Federal Government on all issues that worry Ndigbo.
"The south east pioneers are finding a way to guarantee the security of lives and property of our kin in all parts of Nigeria, similarly as we ensure the wellbeing of lives and property of every single other Nigerian living inside our area, that is south east. Much thanks and God Bless you."
The announcement by MASSOB marked by its Leader, Comrade Madu, and entitled "MASSOB impacts Igbo Religious, Traditional, Political and Opinion pioneers for their apathetic and unfeeling state of mind towards the present awareness and substances of Biafra," read, "Can any anyone explain why at whatever point these self-acclaimed Igbo pioneers meet among themselves or with the Nigeria administration, they generally side-lined the essential and important reasons and reason for Biafra unsettling?
"Yesterday's meeting of Igbo pioneers in Enugu is strategically helping Nigeria government in putting off the blast of the inescapable and relentless ticking time bomb which Nigeria serenely sat on.
"Their choices are not the genuine personalities and places of the general population of Biafra. We need Biafra and only Biafra. Nigeria must break down, her flawed establishment has broken hopeless.
"The peacefulness battle for Biafra actualisation and reclamation is a reactionary transformation against the proceeded with disregard, political shameful acts/unevenness of elected structures against Ndigbo by progressive legislatures of Nigeria since 1970. We are in this self-assurance battle in view of political, financial, scholastic, religious servitude which the administration of Nigeria had subjected Ndigbo into in Nigeria.
"MASSOB and other certifiable professional Biafra bunches are in the Biafra battle due to the great intend to Islamize the general population of Biafra with unobtrusive and brutal financial arrangements against Biafrans.
"We are in the battle to counter and right the abhorrent plot to oppress our youngsters and their future,. We are in the battle re - set up and resuscitate the steadiness, financial autonomy and modern nature of Ndigbo which flabbergasted the world in 1950–70's.
"Really, we are in the battle to reestablish the respect, culture and trustworthiness of Ndigbo. In this battle, various penances have been made. Preeminent costs are being paid; we have been tormented, entranced, executed, detained for Biafra and eminence of Ndigbo yet we are dismissed, mishandled and surrendered by individuals who advantage from our adventures.
"MASSOB and different instigators are the political disguises and wonderfulness of Ndigbo as Book Haram is to Hausa Fulani; OPC to Oduduwa and Niger Delta activists to South - South. MASSOB still has high regard to few Igbo pioneers who unflinchingly and strongly shield the interests and course of Biafra instigators.
"Larger part of Igbo pioneers have audaciously double-crossed the Igbo cause and enthusiasm for Nigeria. We wish to advise Ndigbo that the stiring of the soul and cognizance of Biafra among the general population of Biafra can never be crippled again; the Biafra progressive battle can never again be double-crossed by individual or gathering intere
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