Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) has congratulated the governors of South-East and the South- South Nigeria for rallying themselves to a parley to chart a way forward for their region in the face of dire challenges.
A statement signed by the spokesman of the separatist group, Comrade Emma Powerful described the meeting as historic while commending the governor for defying the odds and summoning the courage to sit together as one family for the first time in nearly 50 years.
It reads: “This South- East and South-South Governors Meeting, is a clear demonstration that political office holders are beginning to respond appropriately to the age long divide and conquer strategies of the North, which is responsible for the absence of strategic regional planning across states in the old Eastern region. “For making this bold move, which we gather was vehemently opposed by the born-to-rule Hausa Fulani core North, they have individually and collectively earned the respect of IPOB in this specific regard.
We pray and hope they continue this process of strengthening and deepening the ancient brotherhood and relationships which sustained us as independent nations bound together by common culture and value systems for over 5000 years before the divisive tendencies of British colonialism destroyed it.
“For the first time since 50 years of the former eastern region, governors and politicians including Mid- Western governors and its politicians, came together to discuss the economic well-being and cooperation within the regions. Only an evil person will be against this gathering. “This effort by the governors proves that IPOB is a divine movement and eye opener to every ethnic group in this amorphous expression named Nigeria by British in 1914.
If the governors and politicians in South South and South East including Mid-Western governors and their politicians could come together to discuss about Mazi Nnamdi Kanu and Biafra restoration in Enugu where the former president of Biafra Chief Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu, Chief Philip Effiong, Chief Frank Opigo, elders and other members of Eastern Conservative Assembly stayed and deliberated together during the horrific period of our history to declare Biafra, then who is Arewa to divide us again?”
