IGBOs WILL NOT FORGET BIAFRA ; DOZIE IKEDIFE TELLS BUHARI

Igbo will not forget Biafra, Ikedife tells Buhari;
…President afraid of Biafra ---IPOB



Former president general of Ohanaeze Ndigbo, Dr. Dozie Ikedife has described as daydream, the thinking by nobody including president Muhammadu Buhari, that Ndigbo would forget or jettison the self determination struggle.
       Consequenctly, he has called on President Bahuri, who @ the just concluded United Nations (UN) General Assembly said he would not allow referendum on Biafra, to discard the thought that Igbo would be in a hurry to forget Biafra.
   Speaking to newsmen yesterday in Nnewi Anambra state, Ikedife,who is the deputy chairman of the Supreme Council of the Indigenous People Of Biafra (IPOB), restated that nothing would make Ndigbo forget the 30-month civil war experience and what they suffered in the hands of Nigerian government.
        "How can we forget Biafra when the life of every Igbo man was reduced to worth only 20 pounds, and some of us refused to collect our own till date ?"
  How can we forget Biafra when the reconciliation, rehabilitation and reintegration were declared after the war and the first step was to go to Lagos and rebuild the Third Mainland Bridge ?
   "How can we forget Biafra when up till this day, the second Niger Bridge has not been constructed ?"
  "How can we forget Biafra when for 30 months our territory was locked and we watched our children die of starvation ?" Tell us how we can forget Biafra ? Tell President Buhari that we will never forget Biafra !
    Ikedife insisted that Biafra would never be forgotten even if all the people that experienced the war died, stressing that story would continue to be told from generation to generation.
     He described last Saturday's sit-at -home declared by IPOB as a huge success.
    Ikedife said people obeyed the order, "not for fear of being molested, but to express their genuine quest and demand for self determination ".
  Meanwhile, IPOB has said President Buhari was afraid of a Republica of Biafra.
  IPOB, in a statement signed by Victoria. O C. Agangan, said the president, by his comment that he would not allow referendum on Biafra, exposed his fears and insisted that it was no longer a fable, but a reality, that "Biafra is not far-fetched "
   "How can Buhari not see that, even in chains and cell, Mazi Nnamdi Kanu controls the oars ?" He (Kanu) clearly has the people's mandate and there is nothing you can do about it.
     "He has led by example and has won over the heart of millions all over the world, including non -Biafrans "
   This was evident in the way and manner the Nnamdi Kanu campaign was launched all over the world, with Biafrans at home obeying the sit -at -home order.
 The trigger -happy soldiers were disappointed as they were denied blood to spill away as usual on September 23, 2016, the statement said.

Culled from the DAILY SUN WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 28, 2016