THE MEANING OF COMMAND AND CONTROL IN
IPOB
IPOB: OBEY AUTHORITY AND RETAIN AUTHORITY, DISOBEY AUTHORITY AND LOOSE AUTHORITY: THE MEANING OF COMMAND AND CONTROL IN IPOB
By Mazi Onyebuchi Eze
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As the hurricane of rebellion which hit the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) Highest Command under the Supreme authority of Mazi Nnamdi Kanu(De Great) few days ago has blown and eventually laid to rest in oblivion with "Operation Crush Rebellion" order given by Nnamdi Kanu himself, there are many lessons left for Biafrans in general and IPOB members in particular and the world at large, to learn from all that transpired in IPOB recently. Those lessons are as follows:
(1) Biafra government is not going to condone sacred cows of untouchable elites who derive joy in impunity, unlike Nigeria government which shields impunity, no matter how highly placed such an officer(s) of the government of Biafra is, he/she is not immune to command and control.
(2) If IPOB can suspend its seven principal officers at the heat of the struggle to restore Biafra due to rebellion to the existing order of IPOB, it is a pointer to the world that nobody will be above the law in Biafra government when restored.
(3) In Biafra government, you have authority if you obey authority; but looses authority as soon as you disobey authority no matter whose ox is gored. Respect is reciprocal.
(1) Biafra government is not going to condone sacred cows of untouchable elites who derive joy in impunity, unlike Nigeria government which shields impunity, no matter how highly placed such an officer(s) of the government of Biafra is, he/she is not immune to command and control.
(2) If IPOB can suspend its seven principal officers at the heat of the struggle to restore Biafra due to rebellion to the existing order of IPOB, it is a pointer to the world that nobody will be above the law in Biafra government when restored.
(3) In Biafra government, you have authority if you obey authority; but looses authority as soon as you disobey authority no matter whose ox is gored. Respect is reciprocal.
It is no longer news but history that IPOB Highest Command under the Supreme authority of Mazi Nnamdi Kanu (De Great), has suspended and relieved of their appointments some principal officers of IPOB (needless to mention their names) when they in a joint liability connived and committed rebellion against the existed order of the command which they swore an Oath of office to abide under. Because of the flagrant rebellion which IPOB Highest Command detest in totality in its mission statement of command and control, these officers were without any delay suspended.
IPOB is by this quick response to crush rebellion, thereby want the world to see a picture and have an idea of how Biafra government is going to be structured when Biafra is restored soonest. IPOB have a chain of command which is spelt out thus: "Operation obey your superior authority" at each level of its administrative structures. By the enactment of the chain of command in IPOB, if you obey authority, you have authority but if you disobey authority, you will automatically loose authority. It is upon this ground that these principal officers lost relevance before Biafrans all over the world.
IPOB Highest Command is also by this action of crushing rebellion in their midst making the world to know that the suspended principal officers are no longer occupying their former positions and nobody, no government, no organization or institutions should enter into any business, political or all forms bilateral treaty with them on behalf of Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB). Any further transaction with them is not in the interest of IPOB because they are all virtually already replaced with new principle officers.
IPOB has also by the suspension issued a disclaimer notice to the world against any Press Release that may be made as from henceforth from their previous Spokespersons in the persons of Bar Emma Nmezu and Dr. Clifford Chukwuemeka Iroanya because they are part of the suspended officers. The newly appointed IPOB Spokespersons whose Press Release is to be welcomed by Biafrans, friends of Biafra and lovers of freedom all over the world are Dr. Ikenna Chinyeaka and Mrs. Grace Ukpai.
This single response of dealing ruthlessly with rebellion is going to serve as deterrent to every IPOB member no matter how highly placed or important such person or group of persons could ever assume they are, should they wish to be involved in any atom of rebellion in the future. It is important for every IPOB member to understand that his or her authority is anchored on the chain of command, and if anybody goes contrary to the dictates of the command, you have lost authority. The IPOB command and control goes like this: even if the command orders them to stage a protest inside Aso Rock Villa, Nigeria seat of power on any date including Nigeria democracy Day, they have no other option that to embark on the ordered protest on the said date.
It is regrettably unfortunate that these principal officers who should have better understanding and inclined with IPOB command and control were the same people who blatantly go against the same order. Now that the hammer of the supreme command of IPOB worldwide has fallen on them, forgiveness may smile on their faces should they refuse to lie down at the corridor of failure by repenting and approaching back the authority they all disobeyed for forgiveness and reintegration into the moving train of IPOB.
Finally, IPOB want to categorically make the world know that the suspended principal officers does not by any reason constitute a faction in IPOB because IPOB still remain an indivisible divine synergy that can never be broken. God bless Biafra and God bless the leader of the Indigenous People Of Biafra, Mazi Nnamdi Kanu.
Edited By Somto Okonkwo
Finally, IPOB want to categorically make the world know that the suspended principal officers does not by any reason constitute a faction in IPOB because IPOB still remain an indivisible divine synergy that can never be broken. God bless Biafra and God bless the leader of the Indigenous People Of Biafra, Mazi Nnamdi Kanu.
Edited By Somto Okonkwo
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NOW I KNOW WHY NNAMDI KANU HATES NIGERIA WITH PASSION
NOW I KNOW WHY NNAMDI KANU HATES NIGERIA WITH PASSION
ME: HOW DO YOU COEXIST WITH PEOPLE WHO HAS MARKED YOUR PEOPLE FOR ETHNIC CLEANSING?
THE SAME WORDS WERE USED DURING THE 2015 GENERAL ELECTION AGAINST THE SAME PEOPLE, WE MUST TALK ABOUT THIS OR LET THE IGBOS GO, NO COUNTRY WILL SUCCEED WITH THESE KIND OF MIND SET.
THE SAME WORDS WERE USED DURING THE 2015 GENERAL ELECTION AGAINST THE SAME PEOPLE, WE MUST TALK ABOUT THIS OR LET THE IGBOS GO, NO COUNTRY WILL SUCCEED WITH THESE KIND OF MIND SET.
Ada Chukwu Abiama Sledgehammer
“All is fair in war, and starvation is one of the weapons of war. I don’t see why we should feed our enemies fat in order for them to fight harder”, (Chief Obafemi Awolowo, Nigerian Minister of Finance, July 28, 1969)
“Until now efforts to relieve the Biafran people have been thwarted by the desire of the central government to pursue total and unconditional victory and by the fear of the Ibo people that surrender means wholsesale atrocities and genocide. But genocide is what is taking place right now- and starvation is the grim reaper. This is not the time to stand on ceremony, or go through channels or to observe diplomatic niceties. The destruction of an entire people is immoral objective, even in the most moral of wars. It can never be condoned”, (Richard Nixon, during the presidential campaign, September 9, 1968)
“Federal troops killed, or stood while mobs killed, more than 5000 Ibos in Warri, Sapele, Agbor” (New York Times, 10th January, 1968).
“Its (mass starvation) is a legitimate aspect of war (Anthony Enahoro, Nigerian Commissioner for Information at a press conference in New York, July 1968)
“Starvation is a weapon of war, and we have every intention of using it against the rebels” (Mr Alison Ayida, Head of Nigerian delegation, Niamey Peace talks, July 1968.)
“The Igbos must be considerably reduced in number”, Lagos Policeman quoted in New York Review 21 December, 1967)
“One word now describes the policy of the Nigerian military government towards secessionist Biafra: genocide. It is ugly and extreme but it is the only word which fits Nigeria’s decision to stop international Red Cross and other relief agencies from flying food to Biafra ( Washington Post editorial, July 2, 1969).
“In some areas in the East, Igbos were killed by local people with at least the acquiescence of the Federal forces, 1000 Igbo civilians perished in Benin in this way” (Max Edward- Reporter, reporter on the ground-New York Review, 21 December 1967).
“After federal forces take over Benin, troops killed about 500 Igbo civilians after a house to house search with the aid of willing locals” (Washington Morning Post, 27 september, 1967)
“The greatest single massacre occurred in the Igbo town of Asaba where 700 Igbo male were lined up and shot as terrified women/children were forced to watch” (London Observer, 21 January,1968)
“Federal troops killed or stood by while mobs killed more than 5000 Ibos in Warri, Sapele, Agbor (New York Times, 10th January, 1968).
“There has been genocide on the occasion of the 1966 massacres, the region between the towns of Benin and Asaba where only widows and orphans remain, federal troops having, for unknown reasons, massacred all the men” (Paris Le Monde, 5th April, 1968)
“In Calabar, federal forces shot at least 1000 and perhaps 2000 Igbos, most of them civilians” (New York Times, 18th January,1968)
“Bestialities and indignities of all kinds were visited on the Biafrans in 1966. In Ikeja Barracks (Western Nigeria) Biafrans were forcibly fed on a mixture of human urine and faeces. In Northern Nigeria numerous housewives and nursing mothers were violated before their husbands and children. Young girls were abducted from their homes, walking places and schools and forced into intercourse with sick, demented and leprous men” (Mr Eric Spiff, German War Correspondent, Eye-Witness, 1967)
“650 refugee camps, contained about 700,000 haggard bundles of human flotsam waiting hopelessly for a meal, outside the camps, was the reminder of an estimated four and half to five million displaced Kwashiokor scourge, a million and half children, suffer(ed) from it during January; that put the forecast death toll at another 300,000 children. More than the pogroms of 1966, more than the war casualties, than the terror bombings, it was the experience of watching helplessly their children waste away and die that gave birth to, a deep and unrelenting loathing. It is a feeling that will one day reap bitter harvest unless” (Fredrick Forsyth, British Writer, January 21st 1969)
“The Nazis had resurrected just here as Nigerian forces” (Washington Post, editorial, July 2, 1969).
“The loss of life from starvation continues at more than 10,000 persons per day- over 1,000,000 lives in recent months. Without emergency measures now, the number will climb to 25,000 per day, within a month and 2,000,000 deaths by the end of the year. The new year will only bring greater disaster to people caught in the passion of fratricidal war, we cant allow this to continue or those responsible to go free” (Senator Kennedy appeals to Americans- Sunday November 17, 1968)
“I want to see no Red Cross, no Caritas, no World Council of Churches, no Pope, no missionary, no UN delegation. I want to prevent even one Ibo from having even one piece to eat before their capitulation. We shoot at everything that moves and when our troops march into the centre of Ibo territory, we shoot at everything, even things that do not move” (Benjamin Adekunle, Commander, 3rd Marine Commander Division, Nigerian Army to French Radio Reporter)
“Myself and the same UNICEF representatives went on to convey something of what lay behind this intransigence: Among the large majority hailing from that tribe who are the most vocal in inciting the complete extermination of the Igbos. I often heard remarks that all Nigeria’s ills will be cured once the Igbos have been exterminated from the human map.” (Dr Conor Cruise O’Bien, 21 December, 1967, New York Review).
SUSPENSION OF SOME IPOB OFFICERS: NNAMDI KANU'S PROPHESIED 100 MEN THAT WILL FINALLY STAND TO RESTORE BIAFRA IS GRADUALLY TAKING SHAPE, WILL YOU BE IN THE NUMBER?
By Mazi Onyebuchi Eze
For Family Writers
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As Biafra restoration is few days away from today as noticeable in all the events unfolding of late in the defunct Nigeria federation, there is second to the last prophecy of Nnamdi Kanu about Biafra restoration that is presently setting the center stage. Biafrans, friends of Biafra and lovers of freedom all over the world who were then ardent listeners of Mazi Nnamdi Kanu on Radio Biafra London should not be in a hurry to forget that the supreme leader of IPOB and Director of Radio Biafra/Biafra TV, prophesied before his arrest by Nigeria government that He may not need a mix multitude on the road to restore Biafra with him, but He needed just devoted 100 (One Hundred) men of valour to restore Biafra with him. Ask yourself "am I among the one hundred men of valour"?
Presently, there is an unprecedented hurricane of rebellion, insubordination and sabotage blowing from all corners against the IPOB highest command and authority to test the powers of the command. These flagrant rebellions and sabotage hitting IPOB highest command from all corners have resulted in suspension of many principal officers of IPOB and some state coordinators in Biafraland.
Whatever happens in this season of "Operation Crush Rebellion" in IPOB worldwide, I want to use this opportunity to let Biafrans all over the world know that the vibration of rebellion at the moment is so that no prophecy of the great prophet of Chukwu Okike Abiama, Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, will go unfulfilled. Let not the hearts of all hardcore Biafrans anywhere in the world shake due to the present "Operation Crush Rebellion" commanded by our ebulient leader, Nnamdi Kanu himself as IPOB worldwide must come out stronger after the vibration and shake off of bad eggs in IPOB.
Back to the main topic, as we have apparently discovered that the falling out of even some principal officers of IPOB due to rebellion is for the prophesied 100 men which Nnamdi Kanu need to restore Biafra is to gradual emerge and take shape, what should be bothering all hardcore Biafrans is not the vibration of rebellion itself but a question like this "Am I going to be among the 100 men that will finally stand with Nnamdi Kanu to restore Biafra at last"? The Bible said "If you fail or quit in the days of adversity, then your strength is small". I beg to be blunt here, please forgive me, many people like like Uche Mefor, Emeka Gift, Ibeh Gift Amarachi and my humble self, Onyebuchi Eze may still hit the exit door out of the struggle in the future should they indulge in any rebellion against the IPOB Highest command, but let not that shake your mind if you are among the 100 men to restore Biafra with Nnamdi Kanu.
Biafra restoration is bigger than any individual or group of persons no matter how highly placed they may be who has identified with the struggle including Nnamdi Kanu himself. Every Biafran is important to the struggle but no specific Biafran is so important that he will disobey the highest command of IPOB under the leadership of Nnamdi Kanu and get away with it. One question that bothers me every day is "am I in the number that will stand with Nnamdi Kanu and restore Biafra no matter the lures, intimidations, dubious persuasions and economic advantage that may tempt me on the way"? This should also be the question that supposed to bother all well-meaning hardcore Biafrans and not quarrelling in facebook groups about one individual or the other who is suspended or expelled due to rebellion against IPOB highest command.
Are you in the blessed number of 100 Biafrans to restored Biafra with Nnamdi Kanu, may Chukwu Okike Abiama give you the grace to hang-in there no matter the odds against our ambition. If you are not yet in number, then what are you still waiting for because the hurricane of rebellion blowing at the moment is already separating the chaffs from grains of wheat in the struggle to restore Biafra. As for Onyebuchi Eze, I have told heaven and earth that I must be in the number of 100 men to stand with Nnamdi Kanu whether under rain or sunshine until we restore Biafra.
Choose for yourself today whether to stay connected with the 100 men who are gradually getting completed or follow the rebellious fallen angels who have chosen ungodly financial gains above noble quest to restore Biafra. The ball is in your court. I rest my case!
Edited by Emeka Gif
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Dealing with Confused Obong Ekidem and An Unreal “Ethnic Nationalities”
Written by Greatson Chinaka
It is not in the culture of the intellectual power base of the Indigenous People of Biafra IPOB and even other Biafra agitation groups today in the country to respond to all manner of peoples’ views on the subject matter of freedom for Biafra, especially those marked saboteurs who will always maintain contrary views.
Written by Greatson Chinaka
It is not in the culture of the intellectual power base of the Indigenous People of Biafra IPOB and even other Biafra agitation groups today in the country to respond to all manner of peoples’ views on the subject matter of freedom for Biafra, especially those marked saboteurs who will always maintain contrary views.
This is because even at the heat of the main agitation between 1967 and 1970 which was the Nigeria-Biafra war, Biafra as a nation suffered and fell not because of its inability to withstand the combined forces of Nigeria with its international allies, but due mainly as a result of activities of saboteurs within its camp.
It turned out that some of our brothers from the wet land of Biafra land who were together with their kinsmen on hunting expedition suddenly started seeing their siblings as antelopes. Ever since then, there’s always these fellows that would always rise up to reenact what they did to scuttle Biafran freedom on a platter of porridge.
So, when last week the news broke out that an unstructured group which only operates on the social media issued a communiqué denouncing Biafra and calling on Biafrans to stop protesting on Biafra land, some people like us who do not belong to any of the Biafra agitation groups but believe in the struggle were not that surprised. We are already conversant with such trends from that region.
What surprised this writer however is the involvement of a certain traditional ruler in the entire shameful project. This was coming on the heels of a recent parade of another traditional ruler from the same zone by the Nigeria police on account of fraud, impersonation of the Secretary to the Government of the Federation and attempt to obtain by false pretenses. It was at a time an elder statesman, Edwin Clarke was shouting to roof top that the 2017 budget has no provision for the Niger Delta region. It was at a time statistics are showing that allocations to the North is far more than that to the South which contributes more to the centre. One then starts to wonder what caliber of rogues we have allowed to be enthroned these days as our monarchs.
Nothing much was known about HRM, Obong (Dr) EU Ekidem except that he inherited his fore-father’s traditional stool as the Ntisong Ibibio III, the Ntisong of Ibibio land in the present day Akwa Ibom state and currently parades himself as the Acting Chairman of his imaginary “Ethnic Nationalities of South-South Zone”; a platform for selfish bargain with enemy country, Nigeria.
His co-traveler, Barr. Edward Ekpoko has remained the secretary of his oil money spilling contraption known as Itsekiri Leaders of Thought and self-acclaimed chairman of Warri Study Group; all groups he designed for himself as a platform for syphoning the collective wealth of his people in connivance with his Hausa-Fulani paymasters.
Urhobo man Albert Akpomudje is a Senior Advocate of Nigeria (SAN); a Warri based lawyer who has never been known for any meaningful leadership contributions both in hisAkphere in Olomu clan of Ughelli South Local Government Area and Delta state as a whole except his recent appointment by the Nigeria Bar Association to chair its Taskforce on Niger Delta. Ekpomudje who is in his 60s believes his NBA appointments is the only sure way of bringing him closer to success, thus sees the agitation by his Biafra people for freedom as distraction.
Prof A.M. Onyeozu is the self-made President General of an Igbo organization called Ogbakor-Ikwerre. As a card-carrying member of the All Progressive Congress (APC), and a lecturer with the University of Port Harcourt, he has managed to develop an identity for himself all to no avail until shortly after the 2015 general elections he had the opportunity of a handshake with General Muhammadu Buhari hoping for a ministerial appointment. This never came and he is still very much working for it even if it entails selling off his birthright and identity.
It then continues that all signatories in the so-called communique issued recently by the so-called “Ethnic Nationalities of the South-South Zone” denouncing Biafra after a meeting with the Vice President Yemi Osinbajo were all hirelings. These were same men who did same dirty job sometime in 2015 shortly after the inauguration of President Muhammadu Buhari as President.
They were roundly denounced and denied by several other groups and they disappeared ever since then in shame. Today, after extracting a promise from the Presidency through the Vice President who recently had a meeting with them, that contracts would be awarded to them as guards across the Niger-Delta, they are back again shouting on high heavens against their people. Shame!
If only Pastor Nelson Koko Bassey, Ulap Bidiak Ulo, Obong Ukpong Umoli and Obong Aniete Ndem knew that within a cabal of saboteurs exists a bigger cabal, they would have thought twice before appending their signatures on the shameless communique released recently. Unfortunately, they have opened wide their mouths and maggots are now pouring out. They have leaped without looking. They have all broken their legs.
The promise of a N2.4b Oil Fields Protection Taskforce they are expecting from the presidency after their closed-door meeting with Mr. Vice President will ever remain a dream, and behind them shall be Biafra. Those who sell and betray their kinsmen to slavery will not only remain slaves themselves but shall die in chains.
For the records, Obong Ekidem and his Fulani-Hausa masters cannot stop Biafrans from protesting in Nigeria, let alone their land in Biafra. Biafra as is well documented is not only of the Igbos, no matter how our enemies try to divide us. Biafran last Head of State and Commander-in-Chief was not from the Igbo-speaking area of Biafraland, thus Biafra land is beyond areas occupied by the Igbo-speaking people of the country.
Obong Ekidem and his cohorts should know that Biafra land cuts across Itsekiriland on the western boundary, Oduduwa to Bakassi on the eastern boundary with Cameroon. Biafraland also stretches across from Idoma and Igala land on the northern boundary with Arewa or Northern Nigeria to the Bight of Biafra which is South of the beautiful island of Bonny. These are facts of history that can never be rewritten.
As it is today, the nation of Biafra consists of Abia, Akwa Ibom, Anambra, Bayelsa, Cross River, Delta, Ebonyi, Enugu, Imo, and Rivers states as well as Igbanke in Edo state, Igala in Kogi State, and Idoma in Benue state. What this shows is that Biafra is not populated by only the Igbo-speaking people as always sold to some of the Hausa-Fulani agents who take pride in answering whatever names they are given by their masters.
What I have always found difficult to comprehend is how these saboteurs derive joy in working against their own people. Why do they fear and feel that their Igbo brothers are their greatest enemies and are interested in their oil while those that maim, slaughter and covert their resources are their friends? How much do these characters truly worth that they are ever ready to trade off their people at each given opportunity?
With due recognitions to the writer, Lazarus Obinna, I wish to join in asking our South-South brothers with this contrived theory that Ndigbo want your oil and desired to recolonize you, these simple questions; who cast this spell on you? Who actually want your oil; the Igbo people who already have oil or the almajiris who have no single oil deposit on their desert?
“It wasn't the Igbos that killed Isaac Adaka Boro. Hausa /Fulani oligarchs did even though he denied his people and fought against them.
It wasn't the Igbos that killed Ken Saro-Wiwa for asking for resource control. Hausa/Fulani Oligarchs did even though Ken was against his people as well.
It wasn't the Igbos that killed or imprisoned your Niger Delta chieftains for asking for resource control. Hausa/ Fulani oligarchs did.
It wasn't an Igbo man that led the military operation that massacred over 700 people in Asaba. Hausa/ Fulani oligarchs did.
It is not the Igbos that own and control over 80% of the oil well in your land according to your brother, Senator Ita Enang. Hausa/Fulani oligarchs do.
When they hated your (Our) brother, Goodluck Ebele Jonathan and wanted him out of power at all cost, it was the Igbos who stood by him, supported him against all odds even when you, his own brothers ( Timipre Sylva, Rotimi Amaechi, Adams Oshiomhole) sponsored all the dangerous lies and propaganda and protest against him. They have not stopped hating him and we have not stopped loving him.
The Igbos are not the people killing farmers in your villages and feeding their cows with your farm produce and destroying your lands and raping your wives and daughters. Hausa/Fulani herdsmen and their oil companies’ partners do.
No Igbo man has laid claim to the oil in Bayelsa, Rivers or Delta. Hausa/Fulani man from Jigawa state did.
How terrible our brother, Major Chukwuma Nzeogwu would be wriggling now in pains and heart break! His people have turned to zombies in their own land. Oh, shame to a people without identity. When it pleases, they call you Lower Delta, Upper Delta, Niger Delta, South-south, etc. When it pleases, you answer Igbo and at another time you denounce Igbo. You have misguided your children. You are Igbo by convenience and have lost your identity. Your birthrights have been thrown to the dogs and you are celebrating and fighting over crumbs.
It is until you understand the divide and rule tactics of our enemies, you may remain their slaves forever. I agree that the Igbo man is proud and also agree there is a possibility of Igbo dominance because of their size, but don't you think the spirit of competition of the Igbo man is better than the spirit of conquest of the Hausa/Fulani man?
Texas is the oil hub of America but it is not richer than the state of Illinois....... The Igbos can survive without oil but can those deceiving you survive without the allocation coming from oil?
They will tell you the Igbos are after your oil while in actual sense they are the ones who want your oil and have killed your brothers to have it and they still want to have it forever.
With the Igbos, you have an ally and a competitor who would propel you to do your best to get the best not one that will always intimidate or kill you over your own property.
Let’s put an end to this divide and rule tactics that they have used over the years to pitch us against one another. The Igbos want you because we are brothers not because of your oil as sold to your parents who are still today their agents.
However, the earlier Obong Ekidem and his co-travelers appreciate that their time is up; the earlier they learn that such cheap and shallow propaganda does no longer divide us, the better. I am not against their taking up any contract from their agents (because it is theirs actually), but what is stupid, distasteful, repugnant and abominable is when they try to deny Biafrans existence in their own land or stop us from having peaceful assemblage and protests on Biafra land. This will be punishable by the wrath of God, not man. #Biafra #NigerDelta
Biafran: Greatson Chinaka wrote from Dubai, UAE.
IPOB Press Statement
20 April 2017
BIAFRA RESTORATION IS
20 April 2017
BIAFRA RESTORATION IS
UNSTOPPABLE: TANKO
YAKASSAI CANNOT SPEAK
FROM BOTH SIDES OF THE MOUTH
We have taken ample time to dwell on the interview granted by Alhaji Tanko Yakassai and we have most sufficiently subjected the said interview to the forensic analysis of sapient extrapolation. Our aim is not to ridicule but rather to illuminate the darkest recesses of the unattainable ambitions of the core North in relation to Biafra. Let it be said unequivocally that Yakassai's statements are inordinately over-ambitious. The points he raised cancelled out each other, so we see it as being ill-thought out, divergent, and outrightly riotous.
We members of IPOB Worldwide under the leadership and supreme command of Mazi Nnamdi Kanu shall in this rebuttal, endeavour to subject Yakassai's submissions to the utmost intellectual scrutiny, with a view to systematically dismantling his misguided utterances he visited upon unfortunate Nigerians not knowledgeable enough to appreciate the contradictions inherent in his postulates.
We find it a convenient starting point to note that in Biafraland people of Yakassai’s age, in times gone by, are accorded great respect for their characteristic wisdom which comes with age. This elevates such elderly individuals to the rare altitude of ‘sages’. The sapient judgment and effulgent wisdom usually radiated by people of Yakassai’s age command immeasurable respect from all and sundry in the by-gone era of truth and wisdom. Unfortunately this is no longer the case these days as our elders no longer speak the truth or are too terrified to do so for fear of upsetting their paymasters. What we have now are old men without honour nor conscience. Elderly men who shouldn't be afraid to speak the truth are now afraid to stand up to speak the truth and damn the consequences.
Most unfortunately, the deeply regrettable poverty of thought encapsulated in Yakassai’s Saturday interview in the Sun newspaper confirmed our long held suspicion that, even in the evening of his life, that rare class of ‘sages’ to which he ought to belong, has eluded him. Such a life-time misfortune is his own cross to bear, it cannot detain us here.
Sufficient to note that we shall not allow ourselves to be drawn into the fray of rants with which Yakassai corrupted the interview he granted. Such use of avoidable gutter language like his reference to 'irritants', have most shamefully grounded and graded him among the street urchins, scallywags and rapscallions of the North, despite his age.
We members of IPOB Worldwide under the leadership and supreme command of Mazi Nnamdi Kanu shall in this rebuttal, endeavour to subject Yakassai's submissions to the utmost intellectual scrutiny, with a view to systematically dismantling his misguided utterances he visited upon unfortunate Nigerians not knowledgeable enough to appreciate the contradictions inherent in his postulates.
We find it a convenient starting point to note that in Biafraland people of Yakassai’s age, in times gone by, are accorded great respect for their characteristic wisdom which comes with age. This elevates such elderly individuals to the rare altitude of ‘sages’. The sapient judgment and effulgent wisdom usually radiated by people of Yakassai’s age command immeasurable respect from all and sundry in the by-gone era of truth and wisdom. Unfortunately this is no longer the case these days as our elders no longer speak the truth or are too terrified to do so for fear of upsetting their paymasters. What we have now are old men without honour nor conscience. Elderly men who shouldn't be afraid to speak the truth are now afraid to stand up to speak the truth and damn the consequences.
Most unfortunately, the deeply regrettable poverty of thought encapsulated in Yakassai’s Saturday interview in the Sun newspaper confirmed our long held suspicion that, even in the evening of his life, that rare class of ‘sages’ to which he ought to belong, has eluded him. Such a life-time misfortune is his own cross to bear, it cannot detain us here.
Sufficient to note that we shall not allow ourselves to be drawn into the fray of rants with which Yakassai corrupted the interview he granted. Such use of avoidable gutter language like his reference to 'irritants', have most shamefully grounded and graded him among the street urchins, scallywags and rapscallions of the North, despite his age.
In one breath, the 'Elder Statesman' as they love to be called, made so many affirmations about the undeniable spirit of excellence resident in this Biafra nation and spoke glowingly of the Igbo tribe. Hear him; "The Igbo are the most hardworking people, not only in Nigeria, but in Africa. It is that hard work that made the Igbo, for example, when it comes to commuter transportation in Nigeria, everybody has surrendered to the Igbo, so also in the areas of building materials, electrical and electronics, vehicle spare parts, pharmaceuticals, stationery, etc… In the next 100 years, the Igbo through their hard work would be a dominating force not only in the West Africa but in Africa."
Yakassai bemoaned the absence of good leadership as being responsible for the terrible state of the Nigerian economy, the general disgraceful and retrogressive state of affairs prevalent in Nigeria today. In these self-indicting words; "....with good leadership – leadership with vision and plan, and one day God will give us such leadership. It is leadership that makes India what it is today, likewise China. It was leadership that made Nigeria what it was before."
Having first laudably admitted that the economy of the Biafran nation is undeniably resilient and one that has the plenitude and latitude of capacity to determine the future of the entire Africa in the next 100 years, this Northern "Elder Statesman" even took the notch higher by admitting massive and corrosive failure of leadership by the Northern dominated apparatus of governance in Nigerian. He finally iced the cake for the Biafran Nation with his loud affirmation of the existence of the right to self-determination by retorting that "nobody is saying that the right is not enshrined". Having come this far, the only inescapable inference is the concurrence of the "Elder Statesman" with the inexorable factual situation that referendum is the last lap for the completion of the Biafran Project.
However, instead of channeling his energy towards advising the Government of the day, led and peopled by his Hausa-Fulani kinsmen, to lend its institutional weight as required of it under extant International Laws, in completing the cycle of Biafran Restoration, he rather somersaulted and started entertaining fears that it might not be well for IPOB in our promised land of Biafra. This is clearly taking a position parallel to the one he took earlier. Hear him now: "Kanu and his friends are just irritants. They are saying what they are saying just to make some people annoyed; they just want to annoy people in power. They are not serious. What homework did they do to convince people that they would be better off in Biafra? How do you think that Governor Wike will agree to be with Biafra; how do you think that Governor Okowa will surrender Delta to Biafra?"
The question might then be asked, what is Kanu and his followers saying? Our answer is very simple. In view of the decadent values, collapsed infrastructure, visionless, massively corrosive, endemically corrupt, retrogressive and directionless leadership prevalent in Nigeria today; where destructive tribalism, ethnic jingoism, religious extremism, uncaged state sponsored marauding terrorists in Fulani herdsmen prowling the land freely, unending terror campaign by Nigerian Army, Police against innocent law abiding citizens, weak compromised judiciary, ever depreciating and sinking currency, overwhelming and galloping inflation, poverty and frustration induced suicides of citizens, we are poised to restore our nation Biafra, which Yakassai correctly identified as holding the economic salvation of the entire Africa in the next fifty to a hundred years. That is what "Kanu and his friends" are saying. What problem does Elder Yakassai have with this noble ambition, the right of which he affirmed exists in us.
At this juncture, we are compelled to ask the 'Elder Statesman' why Nigeria’s problem is lack of leadership? It is of great interest to note that this leadership problem correctly identified by the 'Elder Statesman' has perennially remained the bane of good governance in Nigeria since the British left in 1960, so much so that nobody needs to be lectured by 'Elder' Yakassai as if it was a new truth recently discovered by the APC Government. After all, many decades ago, our own departed sage and literary legend Prof. Chinua Achebe arrived at this same diagnosis in his essay, ‘The Problem with Nigeria.’
The truth of the matter is that Biafra, when fully restored, would not be scourged with the yoke of visionless leadership we see today plaguing this British created contraption Nigeria. This same Nigeria even till today, has continued to sprinkle its bewildered despondent citizens with the callous ashes of untold misery, disillusionment, class frustration, economic wretchedness, biting poverty, and most recently suicides. This is the only gift Nigeria has to offer to millions of its citizens, painfully miserable life and premature death. To add insult to injury, the government of Nigeria responsible for this level of untold misery and shame are run by Yakassai’s kinsmen Hausa-Fulani.
We have it on record that 'Elder' Tanko Yakassai, has served as Liaison Officer to President Shehu Shagari. This is a man who informed us in this same interview that “I was never sent to school. I was taken to school, after one week they removed me till today; all I got was through my personal efforts. You can imagine if I were privileged to acquire formal education, you know where I was going to stop?" Good Lord! Why would Nigeria not continue to grapple with leadership failure when men of limited education as 'Elder' Yakassai, who by his own admission never acquired any formal education, could suddenly rise to the position of a Liaison Officer to the President. How damning! The world can now see the quality of people advising Buhari and why the economy is in such an awful mess.
Instead of naively waiting in vain, with the likes of 'Elder' Yakassai in power, for God to come down from heaven and do for us that which he has given us the ability to do for ourselves, we IPOB have determined to restore the nation of Biafra by the grace of God. A nation where all these ills bedevilling Nigeria today can no longer haunt us. We are irrevocably committed to correcting all these ills with a steely resolve, grit and determination unmatched in the history of black civilisation. Those Hausa Fulani children and youths begging on the streets of Kano, Sokoto and Zaria today will be provided meaningful jobs and education in Biafraland should they choose to migrate southwards upon the emergence of Biafra as an independent nation. In Biafra there will be no discrimination of any sort, regardless of status or place of origin. Once you make it to Biafraland from anywhere in the world, you are a free person, valued and respected because you are a human being not an animal. In Biafra, all will be free from persecution and molestation.
Having first laudably admitted that the economy of the Biafran nation is undeniably resilient and one that has the plenitude and latitude of capacity to determine the future of the entire Africa in the next 100 years, this Northern "Elder Statesman" even took the notch higher by admitting massive and corrosive failure of leadership by the Northern dominated apparatus of governance in Nigerian. He finally iced the cake for the Biafran Nation with his loud affirmation of the existence of the right to self-determination by retorting that "nobody is saying that the right is not enshrined". Having come this far, the only inescapable inference is the concurrence of the "Elder Statesman" with the inexorable factual situation that referendum is the last lap for the completion of the Biafran Project.
However, instead of channeling his energy towards advising the Government of the day, led and peopled by his Hausa-Fulani kinsmen, to lend its institutional weight as required of it under extant International Laws, in completing the cycle of Biafran Restoration, he rather somersaulted and started entertaining fears that it might not be well for IPOB in our promised land of Biafra. This is clearly taking a position parallel to the one he took earlier. Hear him now: "Kanu and his friends are just irritants. They are saying what they are saying just to make some people annoyed; they just want to annoy people in power. They are not serious. What homework did they do to convince people that they would be better off in Biafra? How do you think that Governor Wike will agree to be with Biafra; how do you think that Governor Okowa will surrender Delta to Biafra?"
The question might then be asked, what is Kanu and his followers saying? Our answer is very simple. In view of the decadent values, collapsed infrastructure, visionless, massively corrosive, endemically corrupt, retrogressive and directionless leadership prevalent in Nigeria today; where destructive tribalism, ethnic jingoism, religious extremism, uncaged state sponsored marauding terrorists in Fulani herdsmen prowling the land freely, unending terror campaign by Nigerian Army, Police against innocent law abiding citizens, weak compromised judiciary, ever depreciating and sinking currency, overwhelming and galloping inflation, poverty and frustration induced suicides of citizens, we are poised to restore our nation Biafra, which Yakassai correctly identified as holding the economic salvation of the entire Africa in the next fifty to a hundred years. That is what "Kanu and his friends" are saying. What problem does Elder Yakassai have with this noble ambition, the right of which he affirmed exists in us.
At this juncture, we are compelled to ask the 'Elder Statesman' why Nigeria’s problem is lack of leadership? It is of great interest to note that this leadership problem correctly identified by the 'Elder Statesman' has perennially remained the bane of good governance in Nigeria since the British left in 1960, so much so that nobody needs to be lectured by 'Elder' Yakassai as if it was a new truth recently discovered by the APC Government. After all, many decades ago, our own departed sage and literary legend Prof. Chinua Achebe arrived at this same diagnosis in his essay, ‘The Problem with Nigeria.’
The truth of the matter is that Biafra, when fully restored, would not be scourged with the yoke of visionless leadership we see today plaguing this British created contraption Nigeria. This same Nigeria even till today, has continued to sprinkle its bewildered despondent citizens with the callous ashes of untold misery, disillusionment, class frustration, economic wretchedness, biting poverty, and most recently suicides. This is the only gift Nigeria has to offer to millions of its citizens, painfully miserable life and premature death. To add insult to injury, the government of Nigeria responsible for this level of untold misery and shame are run by Yakassai’s kinsmen Hausa-Fulani.
We have it on record that 'Elder' Tanko Yakassai, has served as Liaison Officer to President Shehu Shagari. This is a man who informed us in this same interview that “I was never sent to school. I was taken to school, after one week they removed me till today; all I got was through my personal efforts. You can imagine if I were privileged to acquire formal education, you know where I was going to stop?" Good Lord! Why would Nigeria not continue to grapple with leadership failure when men of limited education as 'Elder' Yakassai, who by his own admission never acquired any formal education, could suddenly rise to the position of a Liaison Officer to the President. How damning! The world can now see the quality of people advising Buhari and why the economy is in such an awful mess.
Instead of naively waiting in vain, with the likes of 'Elder' Yakassai in power, for God to come down from heaven and do for us that which he has given us the ability to do for ourselves, we IPOB have determined to restore the nation of Biafra by the grace of God. A nation where all these ills bedevilling Nigeria today can no longer haunt us. We are irrevocably committed to correcting all these ills with a steely resolve, grit and determination unmatched in the history of black civilisation. Those Hausa Fulani children and youths begging on the streets of Kano, Sokoto and Zaria today will be provided meaningful jobs and education in Biafraland should they choose to migrate southwards upon the emergence of Biafra as an independent nation. In Biafra there will be no discrimination of any sort, regardless of status or place of origin. Once you make it to Biafraland from anywhere in the world, you are a free person, valued and respected because you are a human being not an animal. In Biafra, all will be free from persecution and molestation.
In this Biafra of our dreams, round pegs will be put in round holes. The best shall lead the rest. It is abecedarian that one cannot walk both sides of the street. 'Elder' Tanko Yakassai cannot have it both ways. It is too late to save Nigeria as presently constituted by the British.
SIGNED:
Dr. Ikenna Chinaka
Mrs Grace Ukpai
IPOB Spokespersons
Dreamer stops dreaming Nigeria is irredeemable!
Who do you people think you are talking about a better Nigeria?
The better Nigeria Azikiwe never got not minding his selfishness against his people, he even named one of his sons Mohammed, the north never accepted him, he denied Biafra as a saboteur that he was but they never accepted, go to his family house in Onitsha, nobody lives there, it is desolated, there is a prize for every stupidity! Ironsi could not see what Kaduna Nzeogwu, Emma Ifeajuna etc saw and he stupidly went for one Nigeria and was murdered as a chicken in Abeokuta, The sarduana of Sokoto's speech how he hated the Igbo's may be you haven't come across it? how he hated the Igbo's because of their domineering tendencies anywhere they comes across and for he if he has any job/appointment s to give that it is for him northerners first but where there is no Northerner around he will go for an expatriate instead of giving it to an Igbo man, this is your one Nigeria that you want to salvage!
Are you also aware that he declared that they will dip the Koran in the Atlantic ocean, total islamization of Nigeria and African at whole and that they will use the minority of the north as their willing tools and the southern Nigeria as their conquered entity which made the first coup plotters to kill him because he is in the umbrella of one Nigeria to perpetuate evil, what about the fraudulent census organized by the British people that they later confessed to favor the north, where land mass was used as to measure the population of the north when it is obvious that the population of south east is far bigger than the whole of the north.
The civil war was fought to obliterate, exterminate the people of the south east from the face of the earth and then enjoin their oil, what made you to think that the Hausa / Fulani thinks the way you think and will accept proper census not the type the used people of Chad, Niger republic, under age kids to conduct election? The civil erupted because the not breached the aburi accord reached between Ojukwu and Gowon and you one Nigeria propagators will now perform miracle that will make Nigeria better, wake up from your sleep dreamer!
How many boko haram or fulani herdsmen were arrested tried in the court in open talkless of secret trials? but Kanu is being tried for radio Biafra broadcast and who will be tried for hausa24 radio or BBC Hausa program or face book Hausa? One Nigeria indeed! Have you seen any country in the world that after 57 yrs still talk about one America? One France, my dear brother it is only in Nigeria that it is possible because oneness of Nigeria has been a fake one, a country built on falsehood, lies, fraud and deceits .
Biafra is the way out, life and darkness has nothing in common! God bless Biafra!
Femi Fani Kayode’s Letter to Vice President of Nigeria Yemi Osinbajo
RE: "ONLY THOSE LOOKING FOR APPOINTMENT WANT RESTRUCTURING": AN OPEN LETTER TO ACTING PRESIDENT YEMI OSINBAJO.
"Those that are calling for restructuring are looking for an appointment. When they say they want to restructure what they mean is that they want an appointment....... some people told us Nigeria is a "geographical expression" although it was not even original to them"- Acting President Yemi Osinbajo.
Your Excellency,
I trust that you are well despite the fact that your principal is still at large.
Permit me to take this opportunity to respond to your gratuitous insult and your irresponsible and irreverent assertion about those of us that have been at the forefront of the fight for restructuring our nation for many years.
However, before doing so I shall make a few observations and assertions of my own.
You have constantly condemned and warned against what you call "hate speech" in our nation yet you indulge in it more than anyone else.
I say this because you constantly call others, particular members of the opposition, "looters" and you take pleasure on demonizing them before the world even before a court of law has pronounced them guilty of any wrongdoing.
You also call them "plunderers", "liars", "clueless" and "destroyers". If this is not a hate speech then I really don't know what is!
You have stigmatized and criminalized every single leading member of the opposition PDP, including our leader President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan, over the last three years and you have sought to paint us as reprobates and evil souls that are not fit to hold public office and that have destroyed the very foundation of our country.
One of your most prominent and vocal sympathizers, supporters and leaders even called President Jonathan's wife, our former First Lady, Mrs. Patience Jonathan, an ugly and illiterate hippopotamus! Are these sentiments not motivated by pure hate?
Yet you know very well that all that you and your associates have said about the PDP and our leaders is not only a lie from the pit of hell but also a carefully crafted, purposely contrived and premeditated false narrative.
Worse still you are fully aware of the fact that over sixty percent of your party elders and APC governors, ministers, legislators and public office holders were, up until three or four years ago, all elders, leaders, and members of the PDP, including President Olusegun Obasanjo and Vice President Atiku Abubakar.
If the PDP was so bad why did you give those that came from there such prominent positions and key roles to play at both the state and federal level before, during and after the presidential election of 2015?
You claim that those that are calling for restructuring are only doing so in order to get an appointment. You measure others by your own squalid standards and you do nothing but take shameless dictation from a tiny cabal of faceless shape-shifting reptilians, corp soc rats, blood sucking demons and vampires.
You cover up their atrocities and you endorse their wicked ways and their evil persecution.
You have forgotten who you are and where you are coming from.
You have forgotten who you are and where you are coming from.
From the outset and as far back as the early 1940's the Yoruba particularly, and indeed the people of the south generally, have wanted and fought for nothing but a restructured Nigeria where power is devolved from the center and now you insult those that support it and pooh the whole idea.
As a Christian, you have joined forces with those that hate your faith and that have sought to denigrate it and wipe it off the face of the earth.
Those that are behind this hideous and satanic agenda are not even real or true Muslims but rather they are Islamic fundamentalists and believers in radical and political Islam.
They call their fellow Muslims who do not share their radical and bigoted views "infidels" simply because they believe that religion is a personal issue which must never be brought into or used in partisan politics and simply because they are prepared to support a non-Muslim for the Presidency or indeed any other political office.
Your new found friends and those you front for hate Christians and they hate real Muslims. Yet you do not care about this deviant disposition as long as you are given the opportunity to them to remain in office even though they treat you like filth and they regard you as nothing more than a mere quisling, puppet and puffed up, highly celebrated "national coordinator".
What a sorry impasse you have brought us to. We had hoped that you would be a man and stand up like one whilst your "father" was away trying to recover from his ill-health and many afflictions in London but this was not to be.
Nigeria is crumbling right under your feet and falling apart because you have refused to rise up to the occasion, muster the required strength and moral authority to set things right and build bridges of fraternity and friendship and ensure that there is justice and fairness to all in the land.
Under you, no Fulani herdsmen have been arrested. Under you, Boko Haram has gone from bad to worse. Under you, the Arewa Youth threatened a whole ethnic race with eviction and genocide yet none of them were arrested.
Under you, the Yoruba youth have said they do not want to restructure anymore but what they want is secession. Under you, IPOB brought the whole of the south east to a stand-still and today they reign supreme in that region and zone.
Under you, stage-managed pictures of our ailing President were put out with visiting governors which were proof of life but which did not indicate whether he was mentally or physically well enough to come home and rule our nation. 90 days down the line and we still don't know what is wrong with him and how much longer he will be away.
Not only has the President gone missing but even the presidential jet that took him to the UK and that was parked at Stanstead
Airport waiting for him for the last three months has now reportedly also gone missing.
Airport waiting for him for the last three months has now reportedly also gone missing.
Ours has become an international shame and we are now the laughing stock of the world because you find it very hard to tell us the truth. Even CNN and the Washington Post, your good friends that helped to bring you to power, are now mocking you.
Yet you do not care and you continue to act as if all is well. Are you not provoking the Living God? Did the respected General Overseer of your Church, the Redeemed Church of God, Pastor Enoch Adegboye (a profoundly good man who is undoubtedly one of God's end-time generals) not teach you that a heavy price will be paid by those who join forces with the Amalekites to hurt, wound, crush and destroy the children of light and the sons and daughters of promise?
What is your fear and what is the source of your cowardice? Can light overcome darkness? Did David not survive the wilderness? Did he not survive the brutal onslaught of Saul, the rebellion of his own son Absalom and the vicious attacks of the Philistines?
Did he not defeat and destroy Goliath and redeem the honor of the children of Israel and the Living God? Is that God dead to you now?
Whose report do you believe? Do you believe the report of the Lord not the report of man?
He who created the eyes and the ears, can He no longer see and hear? Is the arm of the Lord too short to defend and deliver?
He who created the eyes and the ears, can He no longer see and hear? Is the arm of the Lord too short to defend and deliver?
Is there anything too big or too difficult for our GOD? Is He that created the universe and who chose to make the earth His footstool so weak that He cannot honor His word and deliver His people?
The truth is that if you fail to do the right thing and you turn your back on Him and His purpose, He will spew you out and find another that will effect His purpose and will in our country. We are not in your hands but in His.
Mordecai told Esther this over three thousand years ago and I am telling you the same thing today.
If you need to be reminded about the veracity and efficacy of the Holy scriptures when it comes to the truisms and structures of leadership and governance and you are reluctant to hear them from your spiritual father because you are ashamed of the fact that you have gone astray then please do the following.
Ask for a secret audience with either Bishop David Oyedepo, Bishop Mike Okonkwo, Prophet T.B. Joshua, Dr. Daniel Olukoya, Apostle Suleman, Bishop Danson, Pastor Paul Adefarasin, Bishop B.O. Ezekiel or any of the other great men of God in our nation who will undoubtedly have the courage and the conviction to tell you what the Lord is saying and the bitter truth.
You need help and you need it fast. The politicians cannot help you now and neither can your new-found friends on the corridors of power or your beleaguered, divided and dying party the APC. Only the Living God can help you.
It is so bad that you did and said nothing when your fellow Redeemed Pastor (who happened to be a woman) was slaughtered right under your nose in Abuja recently. You did not even attend her burial.
Instead of doing the right thing and soothing frayed nerves you are encouraging division in our nation and you are consolidating and perpetuating a ruthless and heartless quasi-apartheid system of government which has no basis in decency, rationality, justice or fairness.
It is a cruel and barbaric system which sees a few as the master race and the rest as slaves. Given all this how can you possibly live with yourself and how can you hold your head up high?
You join common slaves and ride on horseback whilst you condemn and confine the princes of the realm and the sons and daughters of the Most High God to walk around barefooted.
This is not only sacrilege but it is indeed a great evil under the sun. May God forgive you and may He deliver you before it is too late.
All those that said that we should have faith in the APC and the Acting President should carefully meditate on and consider his words and categorization of those who believe in restructuring and self-determination.
He says that they are just looking for an appointment. Permit me to ask the following questions.
Is it the leaders of the south, Afenifere, Ohaeneze and the Niger Delta that are looking for appointments? Or is it the leaders of the Middle Belt?
Is it Baba Fasoranti, Baba Ayo Adebanjo, General Alani Akinrinade, Chief Amos Akingba, Bishop Gbonigi, Professor Bolaji Akinyemi or Chief Olu Falae?
Is it Chief John Nwodo, Governor Victor Ezeife or Chief Arthur Nwankwo? Is it Chief E.K. Clark, Chief Solomon Asemota SAN or Chief Albert Horsefall?
Is it General TY Danjuma, General Dogonyaro or General Zamani Lekwot? Is it Atiku Abibakar who was the Vice President that you are today 18 years ago?
Is it the respected Baba Bisi Akande who has been calling for us to go back to the 1963 regional structure and form of government? Is it General Ibrahim Babangida who was Head of State 32 years ago?
What appointment can you or Buhari possibly offer any of them at their age and with their wealth of knowledge and experience? Why should you measure these distinguished and respected people, most of whom are old enough to be your father, by your own sordid standards?
The other day you stood at a public function and clapped heartily when our father and leader President Olusegun Obasanjo said that the way to stop the Biafran agitation was to offer the Igbo people a slice of cake?
Does that make sense to you? Is this whole thing about cake and appointments as far as people like you are concerned?
Why do you seen to take pleasure in denigrating those that do not believe in a nation that has all the powers of government concentrated at the center and that has dashed the hopes and dreams of millions?
Nigeria was meant to be a federation and not a unitary state with a federal facade! Have you forgotten that today simply because you are Vice President to Buhari?
Does Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, the man that brought you into politics and that single-handedly made you Vice President, agree with you on this? Does he also believe that everyone that believes in restructuring is just looking for an appointment?
If so that would be very curious because he once believed in it and we used to discuss it extensively when we were closer. I am sure that at some point he would have lectured you on its merits and rudiments.
Honestly, you have lost it completely. You have betrayed your people and jettisoned their cause. You have ignored their call for justice and equity and you have turned a deaf ear to their cry for deliverance.
Some will call you a shameless coward but I will not go that far out of respect for your office. I am however constrained to say that I have lost the great respect that I once had for you.
Like the biblical Demas, you have turned your back on your primary calling and you have gone the other way.
You have been seduced and overwhelmed by a Demastic anointing. You have fallen in love with the awesome power of governance at the Villa and all worldly things.
In short, you are a self-serving modern-day Afonja who will eventually be consumed by those who he has joined forces with to destroy his own people and the children of the Living God. Thus sayest the Lord.
My regards to your family Your Excellency and kindly convey my warmest greetings and special felicitations to your brother "Jebi" who I am very fond of and was very friendly with whilst at London University in the early 1980's. Shalom.
Press Statement from the Head of Directorate
IPOB
