The Simon Ekpa-led Biafra
Government in Exile has claimed that South-Easterners have continued to receive
ill treatment from Nigeria despite keeping faith in the country.
Ekpa, who made the
assertion on his X handle, told Igbos holding various positions in the Nigerian
government that they had gotten nothing but a continuous violation of their
fundamental basic human rights.
He said the most viable
option for the people was to key into the Biafra project.
“Join hands with your
fellow Biafrans in exercising your inalienable rights to self-determination; it
is a moral obligation and, most importantly, a fight for self-preservation,” he
said while urging the Igbos to back his Declaration of the Restoration of
Independence of Biafra on November 29 to December 3, 2024, in Finland.
He said that over 50
million Igbos have in the past months legally voted for the Biafra Referendum
from the Nigerian government.
He told the Igbos: “You
have served under Nigeria, and you are well aware that the establishment of
Nigeria as an artificial experiment by the British has done nothing but the
continuous violation of our fundamental basic human rights.
“For this reason, joining
hands with your fellow Biafrans in exercising your inalienable rights to
self-determination is a moral obligation and, most importantly, a fight for
self-preservation.
“The steps we are taking
for the actualisation of our independent state are by an internationally
recognised way of referendum.”
Newsmen reports that
President Bola Ahmed Tinubu earlier in the week appointed Bianca Ojukwu, wife
of the late Biafran warlord, Dim Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu as a member of his
cabinet.
The development is seen
as one of the moves by the President to get the South-East.
However, Senator
Enyinnaya Abaribe described the sack of the Women Affairs Minister, Uju Kennedy
Ohanenye and the subsequent appointment of Bianca as ‘Renewed Shege’ on the
Igbos by the Tinubu administration.
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