We have no interest in 2023 Igbo Presidency- MASSOB

The leadership of Biafra caucus government, an arm of Movement For the Actualization of the Sovereign State of Biafra (MASSOB), have affirmed that they have no business with any ongoing campaign to produce a Southeastern president come 2023.

The group maintained that giving Igbo people and those who believe in Biafra a separate nation to run their own affairs remains the non-negotiable position of MASSOB.

The group disclosed this after a meeting at Dim Odumegwu Ojukwu library in Owerri last weekend. They flawed the decision of the apex Igbo socio-cultural group, Ohanaeze Ndigbo and some politicians in the region who are currently entertaining the argument of a Southeastern Presidency in the 2023 polls.

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In a communique issued after their meeting presided over by its chairman and president Chief Solomon Ordu Chukwu, as read by the national director for special duties Chief Arinze Igbani, the group stated that,

“what Ndigbo needed now is total change of system and not change of individual who are in the helm of affairs”.

The council dismissed Ohanaeze Ndigbo’s stand campaign for an Ndigbo President in 2023 on the grounds that they have suffered repeated betrayals in the quest for ‘One Nigeria’ and therefore will not be interested in any option beyond self rule.

They further argued that “Azikiwe was betrayed by the same people he liberated through the efforts of Britain, and he was made a ceremonial President, thus ceding all the powers to Alhaji Tafawa Balewa, a Fulani man whom they (Britain) trusted to work with.

The council also stated that those who are religiously hoping for the failed ‘One Nigeria’ project are either naive or are beneficiaries of the broken Nigerian system..

The group surmised that two things would likely to happen in Nigeria- either the Fulani with the support of the western world would finally take over the entire nation, or “Niger Area” will violently break into six independent countries in less than no time, which may result to a ruination of lives and properties.

They observed that the goal of a democratic process is lodging power with the people to determine the framework of the political and governing arrangements, and that the Nigerian government have woefully failed in this regard

“It is also imperative, the council argued is the power of the people to determine their political future, including the demand for self-determination if the existing political arrangements are not delivering security and well-being to them, and that Nigeria today has failed in every aspects of governance, especially the security of lives and properties which suppose to be the primary duties of every government,” they said.

The group warned Ohanaeze Ndigbo and Igbo Politicians to desist from foisting the 2023 Igbo Presidency as the desire of the generality of Ndigbo, as 95% of Ndigbos are already fed up with the existing Nigerian polity and therefore desire the fruitioning of the Indigenous People of Biafra.

“On whose interest are they fighting for,
If not for their own selfish and over ambitious interest, the council asked.

The council warned that neither restructuring nor Nigerian president of Igbo origin can mend the broken shards of a shattered nation.