A traditional ruler from Mbaise in Imo State, Eze Nwabueze Soronnadi Ezewiro, has distanced himself from the struggle for Biafra, describing the agitation as a fraud.
Addressing reporters in Calabar, the monarch said the only institutional body that represents Igbo people all over the world, is Ohaneze Ndigbo.
His words, "I am His Imperial Majesty Eze Nwabueze Soronnadi Ezewiro from Mbaise in Imo State and the Lord Mayor of the Igbo Nation and in Diaspora, Eze Agaba-Idu 1 of Igbo kingdom. Biafra is a fake. Whichever way they take it however reality must be said at any rate, the main institutional body that speaks to Igbo individuals everywhere throughout the world is Ohaneze Ndigbo, not Biafra. Give me a chance to ask you a certain something, when Odumegwu Ojukwu passed on, he was a General, he was given a state entombment amid the season of Jonathan, you saw in Nnewi that day that we, the Ohaneze Ndigbo were making our own planning yet the Presidency was doing the internment. His body was conveyed by Nigerian fighters, so where are the Biafran warriors to convey the body?
"When they're discussing Biafra, will be Biafra just Imo, Abia, Anambra Enugu and Ebonyi states? No. It ought to be South-South, South-East all fused in light of the fact that these are the old eastern area barring Edo. Have you seen anyone from those South-South states supporting Biafra?
"We will put this thing on the table, get the Presidency, set up our heads together and examine this thing. Be that as it may, you can't get it by compel as though you are instigating to isolate from Nigeria alliance.
"The Biafran thing as much as I am concerned is dead gone. It was in the morgue, it has gone to the burial ground. Its dead, there's nothing and there would not be anything like Biafra."
The ruler additionally said the Imo State Governor, Rochas Okorocha, can't force his child in law as representative on the general population in one year from now's broad race.
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