The Director General of Voice of Nigeria (VON), Mr. Osita Okechuku has urged the Indigenous Peoples of Biafra (IPOB) and the Movement for the Actualisation of Sovereign State of Biafra (MASSOB) to forthwith stop their agitation for sovereign state of Biafra and support President Muhammadu Buhari.
Speaking at his hometown, Eke in Udo local government area of Enugu State during the “Egwu Abia Festival”, Okechukwu told his people that the Buhari administration will soon commence work on the 2nd Niger Bridge, Enugu-Onitsha and Enugu-Port Harcourt expressways, which were captured among others in the 2016 budget.
The chieftain of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) called on groups agitating for Biafra – IPOB and MASSOB – to sheathe their swords because “their agitation was not in the interest of Ndigbo who are not only doing well in all the nooks and crannies of Nigeria, but have the high chance to produce Nigerian president of Igbo extraction in 2023.”
Asked how feasible the chance of Ndigbo to produce a president was, Mr. Okechukwu agreed that the Constitution of the All Progressives Congress (APC) had no provision for rotation or zoning, but that convention gives Ndigbo a good chance if they support President Muhammadu Buhari till 2013.
He declared that, “In the public domain, there is the law, with its legal teeth and the convention with its moral weight.
“If Ndigbo collectively support the Buhari administration, we stand to gain as most of the dilapidated roads, 2nd Niger Bridge, Enugu Coal will be fixed. I therefore plead with the boys agitating for Biafra to consider the overall interest of Ndigbo who are doing relatively well in all nooks and crannies of Nigeria.”
“Therefore, if we support Buhari, nothing will stop us from harvesting the moral weight of zoning convention, since equity and justice is on our side. For our brothers of the South – West and South South have had their turns since our return to democracy in 1999”, the erstwhile spokesman of South-East APC leadership caucus said.
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