Biafra Will Collapse If....

Movement for the Ac­tualisation of the Sover­eign State of Biafra (MAS­SOB) has said referendum for Biafra will collapse if the current move for a referendum fails.
Uchenna Madu, the leader of the group, revealed this in statement on July 2, Sunday, Sun News reports.

He said that Biafra, as a kingdom, existed many centuries before the integration of the geographical area called Nigeria in 1914.

“Before the coming of the Portuguese to Biafraland and eventual conquering by the British who later colonised Nigeria, the people of Biafra had nothing to do with the Hausa-Fulani or Yoruba tribe either politically, economically, culturally, religiously or socially, the MASSOB leader said.

“It was the British, because of their political and economic interests crowned with envy against the future existence of the people of Biafra that yoked the people of Biafra with that of Arewa and Oduduwa in Nigeria.

“Many Nigeria nationalists and some elders are now calling for restructur­ing of Nigeria.”

He further revealed that ethnic pressure groups and activities of MASSOB, IPOB, Niger Delta Avengers, Biafra People National Council, Lower Niger Congress, Afra Descendants, EPC, BLC, Biafra Niger Delta Militant Warriors etc were “evidence of the politi­cal imbalance, systematic injustice, political domi­nation, economical, aca­demic, religious and social slavery experienced daily by Eastern/Middle Belt re­gions of Nigeria.

“MASSOB insists that referendum is the only so­lution to these numerous gigantic political imbal­ances against the future of the people of Biafra, a referendum that will de­termine and uphold the sovereignty of the rights, choices and wishes of the indigenous people that are clamouring for Biafra.

“As the leader of MAS­SOB and a leading figure in over 16 years of Biafran struggle for self-determi­nation, I will resign and cease to be a Biafran if referendum for Biafra exit fails.

“MASSOB also advised leaders and arrowheads of other Biafra agitating groups to abhor and avoid the spirit of self-centered­ness, superiority complex and domination, saying such complexities and sentiments will always promote group interest over the general sacred in­terest of Biafra.”

More than 45 years ago, Nigeria was almost divided by a bloody civil war that led to the deaths of over a million people.

Now the country is surviving a revival in secessionist sentiment in southeastern Nigeria, among supporters of the historical state of Biafra.

The activists threaten to undermine President Buhari’s vision of a united Nigeria and spill over into regional violence.

They also call for the release of their leader Nnamdi Kanu, who has been in detention of DSS since October 2015.