All We Need Is Biafra And Nothing More, You Cannot Bribe Us With Igbo Presidency! Sick Buhari

All We Need Is Biafra And Nothing More, You Cannot Bribe Us With Igbo Presidency!
Sick Buhari

The National Director of Information of the Movement for the Actualisation of the Sovereign State of Biafra, MASSOB, Comrade Edeson Samuel, has declared ‘no going back’ on the the call for Biafra secession.

Edeson, who made this disclosure during an interactive session with Journalists on Sunday, insisted that the Igbos are marginalised and are counted as third class citizens in the political entity called Nigeria.

When asked if peradventure an Igbo man becomes the President of Nigeria, would the region still continue the agitation for Biafra, he said: “Yes. We will continue, because as I told you, our aim is to achieve Biafra, nothing more than that. If an Igbo man becomes the President, he will not have the power to control the security of Nigeria, the economy of Nigeria, and other things.”

He added: “The main reason we are agitating for Biafra, is that we need freedom. We want to have our own country. We don’t want to be slaves to Nigeria anymore. We want to be free.

“When the late Biafran Leader, Ikemba Emeka Odimegwu Ojukwu, returned from exile in Ivory Coast, he said he was going to reintegrate the Igbo into the mainstream of Nigeria’s politics, because he was the one that pulled them out in the first place.

“That was seen as the end of the war and agitation. Now, doesn’t your new agitation contradict Ojukwu’s position?

“No, we are not contradicting what Ikemba Ojukwu said. His plan was to reintegrate Ndigbo into the mainstream of Nigeria’s politics, but the Nigeria he wanted to reintegrate us into, does not like us. For instance, Alhaji Balarabe Musa, recently confirmed that the Igbos are marginalised.

“He said that if the Reconciliation, Reconstruction and Rehabilitation (three ‘Rs’) initiated by General Yakubu Gowon, the then Head of State, after the civil war was properly implemented, the Igbos wouldn’t have been demanding for Biafra. This is just the simple truth.’’

On the stated objectives of Biafra, if actualized, he disclosed: “We will start by giving free education to every Biafran, and move to technology. We will establish an institution for technology, where those who are talented will acquire skills, so that we will be able to produce certain things we need, not to import them.

“You are aware that every Igbo man is industrious and intelligent. In a couple of years, you will see that we will be trailing South Africa, in terms of development and productivity. In Biafra, there is going to be a total cleansing. All these things the Governors are doing, such as nepotism, godfatherism, sectionalism, bribery and corruption, are not going to exist in the new Biafra.”