Biafra Agitators React To Presidency’s Position On Restructuring
President Muhammadu Buhari’s government has come under serious attack after it foreclosed the possibility of restructuring Nigerian under the current administration. Some socio-cultural groups and individuals, including the Ohanaeze Ndigbo, the Afenifere, as well as Niger Delta agitators have renewed the call for restructuring of Nigeria.
The general overseer of the Redeemed Christian Church of God, RCCG, Pastor Enoch Adeboye, has also joined the clamour for restructuring, with a strong warning to the government. However, Buhari has dismissed their demands as unpatriotic outbursts.
In a statement by Malam Garba Shehu, the senior special assistant to the president on media and publicity, Buhari said his administration would not succumb to what he tagged “threats and undue pressure” over the matter.
The statement referred to what it called “the recurring threats to the corporate existence of the country” saying they were unpatriotic, unhelpful and unwarranted and vowed that “this administration will not take any decision against the interests of 200 million Nigerians, who are the president’s first responsibility under the constitution, out of fear or threats.”
Reacting to the development, pro-Biafra groups claimed the statement was a vindication of their quest for Biafra. One of the groups, the Biafra Zionists Federation, BZF, through its self-acclaimed president, Barr. Benjamin Onwuka, said they had always insisted that it was Biafra or nothing.
In a statement, Onwuka said “we have always laughed at those who are thinking that anything will come out of restructuring.
“We knew that there (was) no road there; what are you even restructuring? (Is it) the forced entity called Nigeria? The Buhari government has given them over dosage of disappointment. I wonder whoever told them that this government will restructure anything.
“However, all hope is not lost. It is now time for all our people to join the Zionists.
Similarly, Comrade Uchenna Madu, described as the national leader of the Movement for Actualisation of the Sovereign State of Biafra, MASSOB, told Orient Daily that the statement from the presidency marked the end of Nigeria. “Restructuring or no restructuring, we will collapse Nigeria,” he declared, adding that “we were not expecting a different thing because the Fulani government in power will always protect the interest of their British masters; but we will disgrace all of them.”
Madu further stated that “there is no way Buhari will support anything that can balance Nigeria. He does not want to offend his masters but this his stand has marked the end of Nigeria. Many parts of the country are now talking about their own country, including the Yoruba. “We are talking about Biafra, and at the end of the day, the colonial masters, even the Fulani cabal will be exposed. They can’t stop what is about to happen to Nigeria.”
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