Pro – Biafra Protest: Buhari groups commend Ohaneze Ndigbo over stance

Pro – Biafra Protest: Buhari groups commend Ohaneze Ndigbo over stance

Ohanaeze Ndigbo 2By Umar Muhammad Puma
The Buhari Media Support Group (BMSG) yesterday commended the Ohaneze Ndigbo for condemning protests and agitation for a break out of Biafra in some parts of the South East and South-south.
A statement issued in Abuja signed by its Coordinator and Secretary, Muhammad Labbo and Cassidy Madueke said that the secession will not do any one good adding that the protests were guided by selfish politicians.
“Protests and agitation in favour of secession and separatists let alone directed at re-awakening the defunct Republic of Biafra is an ill wind that will not do any good least of all the protesters and their sponsors, whoever they may be.
“It is indeed clear from the manner of the protests that the protesters were misguided and tele-guided by selfish politicians and political jobbers who care only for their interest and little for the generality of the Igbo people.
“At a time like this when a new peoples government under President Muhammadu Buhari is in power and determined to improve the lives of Nigerians without exception, the hard-working and focused people in the South-East do not need the distraction of the pro-Biafra protesters and their sponsors” it said.
It also maintained that the future of Ndigbo and other ethnic groups in Nigeria is better guaranteed in a large, fertile and resource-rich country like Nigeria.
“The BMSG maintains that despite the perception of marginalisation and neglect by the pro-Biafran protesters, it is not enough to cause the disunity and disintegration of the Nigerian State”.
 
It further noted that these complaints are not peculiar to the South East zone alone as they are common across the country.
“The harrowing experience of the last civil war in Nigeria, 1967 – 1970, is not one which the present generation should relieve more so when the dramatis personae on both sides, in that war declared that it was a mistake that should never have happened.
“The BMSG believes that this is the appropriate time for other socio-cultural, socio-political South-Eastern state governments and prominent Igbos to emulate Ohaneze Ndigbo in beating the drums of peace and development” it said.