• Don blames threat of
breakup on 1970 peace deal
without remedies
• Igbo will lose if they secede
from Nigeria, says APC
chieftain
The Movement for the
Actualisation of the Sovereign
State of Biafra (MASSOB) has
condemned South-East
governors and the leadership
of Ohanaeze Ndigbo on their
decision to remain in Nigeria.
It described their decision as
unacceptable.
In a statement issued in
Abakaliki yesterday by its
Director of Information, Edeso
Samuel, MASSOB said that
their decision to remain in
Nigeria amounts to shameful,
disgraceful, abomination and
act of sabotage.
It said that for the governors
and Ohanaeze Ndigbo to take
such dangerous decision for
over 50 million Igbo and
Biafrans without their consent
means that they don’t have the
interest of Ndigbo at heart.
The statement read: “These
so-called leaders want to
mortgage the destiny and
future of these young
generation because of their
interest and greed. These
South-East governors and the
Ohanaeze leadership want to
play good boy in the hand of
their political masters who use
them as tools against the wish
and desire of Ndigbo and
Biafrans.”
Meanwhile, a political scientist,
emeritus Prof. John Adebunmi
Ayoade, formerly of the
University of Ibadan (UI), has
traced the source of the
current breakup threat rocking
the foundation of Nigeria and
the unabated violence starring
it in the face, to the failure of
the peace that ended the 1967
to 1970 Civil War to address
the root causes of the war and
the factors that oil the war
machine.
Ayoade, who stated this at a
public lecture with the theme,
“The Challenge of Peace and
Security in Times of Economic
Recession - The Nigerian
Experience”, at the Federal
University, Oye-Ekiti, also
blamed the endemic poverty
among the general populace
on politics of sectional interest
that displaced politics of
national interest shortly after
the 1960 Independence.
According to him, Nigerian
leaders as at that time were
more interested in obtaining
peace than addressing the
causative factors. He said:
“Unfortunately, the
(colonialists) Nigerian
successors invested more in
the division for sectional
political advantage. This was
because shortly before political
independence, politics as a
process of allocation of
powers and national resources
has been appropriated as an
allocation enterprise for
sectional interests. With time,
the gap between national and
sectional interests widened to
a point that national interest
tended towards zero.
“There is an incongruity
between the design of the
country and the post-
independence vision and
mission of the country. Such a
mismatch is clearly
demonstrated in the purpose
of federalism and practice of
federalism in Nigeria. The
practice of federalism in
Nigeria is bedeviled by the
boss syndrome which results
in the hierarchical ordering of
government of the federation
rather than the co-equality of
governmental jurisdictions.”
The scholar said apart from
the fact that the replacement
of national interest with
sectional interest aimed at
enriching the political elite, but
pauperise the general
populace, same elite had
furthered their game of self-
centeredness through the
creation of states, which
according to him, they use as
conduit-pipe to further enrich
themselves with state funds.
He said it was worrisome and
did not portray Nigerians as a
serious people 70 years since
late Chief Obafemi Awolowo
said Nigeria was a mere
geographical expression. In
another development, the
National Treasurer of the All
Progressives Congress (APC),
Chief George Moghalu, has
said that Ndigbo would stand
to lose out much should the
Biafra secession succeed.
Moghalu, who spoke at an
Anambra Consensus Forum in
Awka yesterday, said that
about 50 per cent of the
property in Abuja and Lagos
are owned by the Igbo,
lamenting that there may be no
space to accommodated such
property in view of the limited
land in the South-East.
Moghalu was also concerned
that most of those clamouring
for Biafra secession are
ignorant of what they are
demanding for, since the same
people talking about Igbo
presidency in 2023 are the
ones talking about Biafra
project.
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Biafra AgitatorsMASSOB
Ohanaeze Ndigbo
https://m.guardian.ng/news/massob-faults-ohanaezes-south-east-leaders-decision-to-remain-in-nigeria/

Igbos dont wanna leave Nigeria,it is because of the hatred they have for PMB that's why they are shouting Biafra