Breaking: Pro-North Group In U-Turn, Endorses Biafra

The Coalition of Northern Groups (CNG) has asked President Muhammadu Buhari to give heed to the agitation for the Republic of Biafra in the face of his failure to address the crisis in the country.

The group in a statement particularly flayed what it described as the president’s failure to recognize the loss of human lives on account of the agitations as it drew reference to the recent controversial tweet deleted by Twitter in which the president expressed more concern with loss of infrastructure without reference to the lives being lost.

The CNG in the statement issued by its spokesman, Abdul-Azeez Sulaiman, said the president had by his tweet admitted failure and incapacity to deal with the crisis.

 GreenWhiteGreen GWG reports that the CNG has been a rabid pro-North group which few years ago issued an ultimatum to the Igbo in the North to leave the region.

In its statement, endorsing Biafra, the group said:
“We find it ridiculous that most parts of the President’s tweet concentrated more attention to infrastructure than on the lives of citizens that are wasted daily with virtually no response from the authorities.

“The President’s revelation that most of those involved in the current agitation for secession are those who have not witnessed the 1967 civil war is a vindication of our position that the only reasonable option to ensure a more secure future is for the Igbo to be allowed to have their wish for a Biafran nation.

“The fact that the strength of the Igbo agitation rests on youth who are mainly below the ages of 50, with diseased mindset, encouraged by their political, cultural and religious leaders to take up arms against the Nigerian state and Northerners, has rendered the nation’s unity negotiable.

“It is therefore unreasonable for those older Nigerians who are mostly above 70 to insist that the unity of Nigeria is sacrosanct whereas the people executing the dangerous Southeast secession agenda are almost entirely below 50.

“It is time for the Nigerian state and all stakeholders to wake to the reality that the only remaining option to avoid a civil war is for the Igbo to be allowed to have the Biafra they have used intermittently for decades to destabilize the nation and deny peace to other components of the country,” Sulaiman said in the statement.

While asking Northerners across the country to sustain the peace, the group said it was working towards the realization of Biafra so that the country could abide in peace.

“We hereby make allowance of the next 30 days to see how Buhari would make true his threat to deal with insurgency, banditry and above all, the greater threat posed by IPOB or how he will handle the entire Igbo leadership that openly back and embolden them,” he said.

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