USA Africa Dialogue Series - Stop this Madness, Biafra Died in 1970 – Ohaneze Ndigbo tells Agitators

Stop this Madness, Biafra Died in 1970 – Ohaneze Ndigbo tells Agitators

TheHerald - Nig / 2015-11-20 19:22

Apex lgbo socio- cultural organisation, Ohaneze Ndigbo has urged pro-Biafra agitators to stop protesting because Biafra ended in 1970.

While briefing reporters in Awka on Friday, the chairman forum of state presidents of Ohaneze in the seven Igbo speaking states, Elder Chris Eluemunoh, said "Ohaneze as Igbo cultural group cannot support insurgency, we are totally against it and we will never support it.

"Anybody that has any issue with the federal government should go for dialogue with the president and that is why we went for national conference, Nigeria is a one united country and we do not want any other.

"I believe what the youths are doing is to call the attention of the president to see the infrastructural decay in the zone, this region has been abandoned and neglected and not by Buhari, but by previous administrations started by Olusegun Obasanjo which Goodluck Jonathan also tried to bring back.

"Ohaneze is calling on the federal government to declare state of emergency in the zone on roads for purposes of infrastructural development and that is what the youths are saying, we believe and not secession.

"Our president should forget what happened in the last election and Ohaneze is going to give him full support through prayers and other means and in making sure that Nigeria stays as one indivisible entity.

"Therefore, the youths should stop such agitations for Biafra because Biafra died in 1970 and we are saying it again that Ohaneze will never support it."

The group insisted that if Nnamdi Kanu and others who were spearheading such agitation had committed any criminal offence, they should face the music.




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