Biafra: Your Purported Agreement With Ojukwu Does Not Affect The Rest Of Us— Biafra Writers Slams Buhari

By Chukwuemeka Chimerue || For Biafra Writers

August 23, 2017

It was quite shameful and an act of arrogance that after spending over 100 days in a medical vacation at the United Kingdom, the Nigeria President Muhammadu Buhari, would return to the country he has abandoned its duties, to preach about its forced unity in such a cruel and uninspiring manner.
It seems as though, the President was brought back to the country to restate his firm resolve in keeping her one even when the remnants of the country has been torn apart. He does not consider other things that should make up a nation is been put to place.

We wonder why the issue of whether the country will remain as one or not would form the center of his unsavoury speech, when other pressing national issues that requires optimum attention are being neglected by his government.

As a man as old as Buhari who after leaving his sick bed, should have reflected on the problems bedeviling the country and seeking for a genuine lasting solution to it, instead will prefer to threaten and/or intimidate the citizens of the country.

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Taking an excerpt from his cruel and disrespectful speech, Buhari was quoted as saying thus, “In 2003 after I joined partisan politics, the late Chief Emeka Ojukwu came and stayed as my guest in my hometown, Daura. Over two days we discussed in great depth till late into the night and analyzed the problems of Nigeria.

We both came to the conclusion that the country must remain one and united.
Nigeria's unity is settled and not negotiable.”
Reading through the above statement coming from a man who preaches change but would never allow change to take its course, one wonders under what terms, conditions, arrangements, capacities, treatments and structure did the duo arrived to the conclusion of the indivisibility and unity of Nigeria, because I know Dim Odimegwu Ojukwu was not that myopic?

One would also wonder why Buhari is revealing this to us now. The old senile Buhari that we know cannot even remember what he said and the conclusions he reached with people just last year let alone the conclusion of a discussion that purportedly held a couple of decades ago. I guess both of you equally concluded that after you finally won the Presidential election in 2015, you should give his people 5% treatment, order the Nigerian military apparatus to kill anyone agitating for Biafra, and the rest of them.

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So because Buhari allegedly had a meeting with Ojukwu, thus Nigeria's unity is non-negotiable by millions of other citizens of the country? It is evident that he only came back home to deliver a hate speech towards Biafrans.

Did they have the agreement based on the fact that Buhari as a retired soldier, having no political office at the time, was the mantle holder for freedom? We wonder what he was trying to achieve by bringing Ojukwu into the matter. Does it mean that the unity of Nigeria is non-negotiable under the terms of Ojukwu and Buhari? Ojukwu is already confined to the annals of history. He does not feel recession, agitation, herdsmen killing, Boko Haram terrorism, hate speeches, quit notice, and so on, therefore whatever anyone would have had with him, has no direct impact on the rest of us. It should be noted that the decision or agreement of two individuals should not be binding nor determine the fate of other millions of people in the country.

Buhari's speech is not only divisive but also insensitive to the point that one may wonder what is so special or spectacular about Nigeria that they must force unity on its citizens without taking steps to address the many injustices in the system.

It would had even been much better that Buhari never brought Ojukwu into his parochial and narrow-minded rule that has seen different parts of the country trying to go their separate ways. If you were ruling according to the dreams of Ojukwu and many other Nigerians, perhaps we would not have arrived to the sorry state we found ourselves today in Nigeria.

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Even if at that time, something was decided can't we change it? Is the destiny of today's generation tied to one man? After all after Buhari himself lost at the polls to former president Jonathan in 2011, he cried and declared not to contest again, but later changed his mind. Has many things not been changed since the past decades? The only constant thing in life is change which we must all learn to embrace.

Democracy is government of the people by the people and for the people. Not government of two individuals, the people's opinions and voices must be heard and taken into consideration. Ojukwu's opinion of 1967 or 2003 may no longer be tenable today, neither is 1970 technology and methods in use in this age. Today's issues must be driven with current innovation and ideas, that is why Biafra is in mix. Nigerians erred in employing a man without any capacity to adopt change as an option in a changing world.

The so-called agreement you reached with Ojukwu, cannot in all honesty, dictate the pace for the current generation wants to decide for themselves what they want. If all we see is continued marginalization, hatred, blind bigotry and slavish sycophancy, then perhaps it is time for something different. If not, in the near future, our great grand children will still be dealing with it. The new generation want a new lease of life and that is not available in Nigeria where a particular section of the country is perpetually favoured more than other regions.

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Ojukwu was well quoted in many publications saying that the political and economic marginalization of the Igbos by Nigeria must stop, else Biafra may occur again. His wish for Nigeria was to learn from history so that the same mistakes are not repeated. So what is Buhari hoping to achieve by telling blatant white lies with Ojukwu's name?

Notwithstanding, people have been criticizing the IPOB, but the day they gain freedom from Nigeria, other regions will wish they also got the freedom. The process of a thing is sometimes foolish and hopeless but the end gives joy and fulfillment.

What is easily understood is that the locus of this signifies that the battle is at its final stage because Buhari's speech alone has autocratically energized those cow brains in the name of Arewa youths to execute their threat without doubt. He has just supported them. But last borns are never the last blood.

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Therefore, Buhari still has enough time now to start considering the Referendum option as a means of bringing an end to many of the problems facing Nigeria. There is joy, happiness and self fulfillment in being a Biafran which nobody can feel and understand except the Biafrans. Biafra as a word, is intoxicating, their flag is intoxicating to Biafrans. You simply cannot suppress the passion under any guise whatsoever.

Publisher: Chijindu Benjamin Ukah