Keep Niger Delta Out Of Your Biafra Agenda – PANDEF Warns

The Pan Niger Delta Forum (PANDEF) has distanced the Niger Delta and South-South regions from the ongoing agitation for the actualisation of a Biafra nation.

In a statement issued on Wednesday by PANDEF’s National Youth Leader, Donben Donyegha, the organization warned against including these areas in the Biafra agitation, asserting that such attempts would be firmly resisted.

Donyegha emphasized that the Niger Delta has no interest in breaking away from Nigeria. He stated, “The Niger Delta region is not interested in breaking away from Nigeria,” and described attempts to involve the region in Biafra’s goals as an insult to its people. He added, “Including the region in any plan to break away from Nigeria is provocative behavior.”

The statement further declared that PANDEF, as the apex socio-political body of the Niger Delta, is not aligned with the Biafra Republic movement. “The proponents of Biafra Republic have been warned to desist from their action of including communities of Niger Delta, the South-South Geopolitical zone in their plan to secede from Nigeria. We, the Apex Social Political body of the Niger Delta, are not party to this agitation.” They warned, “Any further attempt to further disregard or belittle our Leaders and fathers with this provocative publication or pronouncement of Biafra Republic with inclusion of any of the Towns or territories of the Niger Delta shall meet a strong resistance from us, the youths.”

PANDEF reaffirmed its commitment to a united Nigeria where “nobody is made a 2nd class citizen” and where every region has equal opportunities. They believe in “the Unity of Nigeria but a Nigeria where equal opportunities abound, where the Sub National, the states control their God’s given resources and pay tax to the Centre for the maintenance of homeland Security, Territorial integrity, and sovereignty, foreign policy and international diplomacy.” PANDEF added that such principles would lead Nigeria to sustainable peace and development.

Despite the challenges posed by the 1999 constitution, which PANDEF believes deviates from the ideals of Nigeria’s 1964 constitution, the organization remains committed to engaging with both federal and state governments to address the grievances of the Niger Delta people. PANDEF concluded by stating, “We want Nigerians and the international community to carefully and sensibly take note that the Niger Delta is not and can never be part of the plan of some individuals to break away from Nigeria under the aegis of Biafra Republic.”

They urged that this warning would help prevent further provocative actions, both within Nigeria and abroad, by those promoting the Biafra movement.

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