IECF 2023 Igbo President Threat; Should Nigeria be Afraid

 

Written by Eluwa Chidiebere Chinazu | Biafra Writers 

January 24, 2023

The Igbo Elders Consultative Forum (IECF) is an organization comprising of many notable political figures from the Southeastern part of Nigeria. On different occasions, this organization that fronts the former governor of Anambra state, Chief Chukwuemeka Ezeife, as their leader, has threatened the Nigerian government with the Igbo people quitting Nigeria should the federal government deny the region the 2023 president.

The Igbo people have been sidelined politically in a country that they spearheaded its independence in 1960. Since independence till date, the Igbo have ruled Nigeria for only 194 days. Unfortunately, the man (Aguiyi Ironsi) who ruled, was murdered in office. Some spurious individuals attribute this mistreatment against the Igbo race to the 1966-1970 Biafra-Nigeria war. They have however failed to revisit the activities before, during and after the war.

The recent threats from the IECF over 2023 presidential elections are what baffle me. Isn't it a total joke to think that the Nigerian government will bend its decisions because of IECF which cannot boast of its eminence even in the region they come from?

The IECF cannot point at any single demand they previously made that was met by the Nigerian government. The IECF demanded that Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, the leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), be released to them, but the leader is still in detention. They promised barrage of sanctions against any Igbo person that will be a running mate to anyone outside the Igbo territory in the 2023 presidential elections but Ifeanyi Okowa is still moving freely. The IECF demanded that the PDP and APC parties in Nigeria should make an Igbo person their presidential candidate in 2023 elections, but the two didn't. Still heaven didn't fall.

Aren't IECF threats a political statement aimed at neutralizing the greatest force in the region which is IPOB. Anyone staking his coins for IECF threats should get ready for heartbreak. As birds of different motives, when this game is up, they will sing different songs.

Nigeria being a colonial construct is not designed to favour the Igbo man. The hatred against the Igbo race stems from the Nigerian independence which the Igbo people engineered. The colonialists when leaving, made sure that the Igbo race does not enjoy the country. The earlier the Igbo people come to this realization the better.

Anyone promising you president is only making a mockery of the pitiful condition of the Igbo people in Nigeria. This is the reality that will keep vindicating itself as far as the Igbos keep habouring such hope.

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Igbo Presidency, Ohaneze, and Nigeria

January 10, 2020

By Christopher O Evans | For Biafra Writers

As every election year approaches, Igbo politicians bear up begging bowls, pleading that Igbos be allowed to produce the next president. Who then are the kingmakers that Igbos, and even the Yoruba, bow to? There seems to exist a mafia that decides the fate of Nigeria, and by extension, the fate of the component units in the federation. I offer to unmask the mafia.

Following the annulment of June 12 election, the National Democratic Coalition (NADECO), the Southwest press/media, Oduduwa People's Congress (OPC), and other pro-democratic groups, mounted and sustained pressure for the disannulment of that election which a Yoruba business mogul, Moshood Abiola, decisively won. Abiola himself, the greatest ally of the caliphate and every ruling military junta in the country, had counted so much on the mafia to the extent he boldly spited the Igbos. No doubt he felt he had worked his way into the system and counted himself as accepted into the elite club of power mafia. His money had funded every military coup in the country. In a meeting of party caucus in Benin, Abiola openly boasted that he does not need the Igbos to win the presidential election. There and then, an indefatigable Igbo politician, Arthur Nzeribe, told him that he will never rule Nigeria in his lifetime.

Whether Arthur had a hand in the eventual annulment of that election is unclear. There's no doubt though that with that stroke of arrogant assertion against the Igbo the northern mafia sensed a crack and quickly exploited it. Without the support of the Southeast it is difficult to break off the northern grip to power, and neither can the southeast gain political power without the Southwest. Enormous hate between the Southwest and Southeast has handed the north easy advantage. Since the two regions cannot unite, they both found themselves perpetually prostrating to the north for any form of foothold around the corridors of power. So the Southwest are currently lobbying the northern mafia to be allowed to produce the next president.

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Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu believes he has secured enough goodwill to be allowed to become president after the incumbent. The Southeast are working up some kind of arithmetic which they hope favors them to be allowed to produce the next president. The northern mafia will decide where and who becomes the next president. As it is now, they are feeling that it is not yet time to let go of it.

Obasanjo as a military Head of State served as dictated by the north. Following the assassination of General Murtala Mohammed, Obasanjo, although next in line in the military hierarchy, went into hiding. He knew one can only rule on the permission of the northern mafia. He feared he might be killed since he is not from the privileged north. They sought him out, and he reluctantly accepted after extracting commitment from them to guarantee his safety. He turned out to be a very good choice because he allowed his second in command, Shehu Musa Yar'dua, a northern Fulani, to run the govt. Above all he maintained the isolation of the Southeast. The isolation of Biafrans has become Nigeria's supreme task.

As agitations over the annulment of June 12 election reached fever pitch, the mafia had to choose between breakup of the country and pacifying the Southwest. They have betrayed Abiola so much that he can never trust them again. The only option was to eliminate him. Obasanjo remained the best bet for them. So they freed him from prison and quickly gazette his pardon from treasonable felony. Then they made him president as compensation for the loss of Abiola, but not without planting Atiku Abubakar as his vice. Again Atiku ran the economy while Obasanjo jostle round the world. It took him four years to pick himself up. But no matter how much he learned, it wasn't enough for him to dare venture into the forbidden territory of seeing the Igbo as equal partners in the Nigerian project. He certainly didn't learn enough to break down the northern mafia. It's that sacred so much so that former president Goodluck Jonathan rather than cross the line opted to relinquish power.

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Obasanjo hung on to finish his terms. He handed power back to them. Igbos continued begging to be given chance. The northern mafia cannot find anyone in the southeast – the like of Obasanjo – who would answer to be president while they direct affairs. Rochas Okorocha and Orji Uzoh Kalu tried. Rochas even became a Muslim, hoping to win them over. His patience ran out and he resorted to threats. But finally they caged him. Orji Kalu betrayed it when he went to the national assembly and fought to be the senate president against the mafia’s decision. To make it worse he played Igbo marginalization card. In the end he settled for senate majority leader. Little while later, they punished him with a jail term.

Igbo political class are not unaware the kind of toothless president they are begging to become. But they will make do with anything. They're threatened by the emergence of Mazi Nnamdi Kanu as dominant voice in the Southeast. "Who does he think he is?" The truth however is that the Igbo do not need a politician now. We need a liberator. We do not need Nigeria. We need Biafra. We have spread out too much; we are in every nook and cranny of the country. The thought of going back home is frightening to say the least. But then, we can't continue in slavish conditions for the fear of change. Our destinies are currently not in our hands. One stroke of new policy will destroy our investments. They are doing it to our entrepreneurs – Ifeanyi Uba, Innocent Chumwuma, Ibeto, Orji Uzoh Kalu, Olisa Metu, etc. They are afraid of the Igbo with strong economic power. And we cannot fully realize Igbo potentials until the emergence of independent Biafra.

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Ohanaeze President- General Knelt Down Begging Us To Make Him President- Junaid Mohammed

October 16, 2019  | The Biafra Times

Lagos – Elderstatesman and Second Republic federal lawmaker, Junaid Mohammed has revealed that North rejected the plea of John Nwodo, the President- General of Ohanaeze Ndigbo when he begged them to make him President.

Speaking in an interview with Daily Independent, Junaid said Nwodo came with a delegation from Enugu, while the meeting took place in the home of Lawal Jafaru Isa, former military administrator of Kaduna state.

He said they only laughed at Nwodo because the North does not support the culture of begging for positions.

He said “I haven’t seen an Igbo man that I will endorse for now. I will not endorse an Igbo man because all the people who are pretending are not serious and they have the history of being part and parcel of the family that brought  the civil war”.

“Are you telling me because John Nwodo is the president of  Ohanaeze I should ask people to vote for him? I will not”.

“He came all the way from Enugu state to meet our people with a delegation and we had a meeting in a house not very far from my house, he house of a former governor of Kaduna state,  Lawal Jafaru Isa”.

“We had a meeting there in which John Nwodo went on his knees begging us to make him President. We laughed at him. In our culture, you don’t come here and say you people should make me this or that. We allow people to point at you and say you are good to occupy certain positions”.

“Being the President is not a question of begging people” he said.


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Biafra: Igbo Presidency, a Misplaced Priority

October 14, 2019

By Princewill Akubumma | For Biafra Writers

The priority of Ndigbo now is Biafra and not Igbo presidency. Igbo presidency is a scam just like the so-called Second Niger Bridge, Ogoni Clean-up and Restructuring.

The Fulani Oligarchy, functioning in their capacity as care-takers of the British company called Nigeria, have always employed the instrument of distraction to keep the mind of Nigerian youths away from the Islamization agenda being advanced. These nomads from Fouta Djallon have been tutored for centuries by the British on mind games and they have used it effectively to keep the far more educated South under control.

Igbo Presidency is just another ploy calculated to draw minds away from the Biafra quest. Unfortunately, many are blind to that and so have run with it. Schematically injected into the polity at a time the struggle is gathering more international recognition, what the detractors aim to achieve with the Igbo Presidency decoy cannot be missed.

What even makes anybody think that even if an Igbo man is by some sort of miracle allowed into Aso Rock that he would be allowed a free hand to turn things around? Take the governors, senators, and House of Rep members as a case study. Do they act on their own accord? No. They are all Fulani stooges, doing the biddings of the caliphate just to be allowed to stay in power. Take the governor of Anambara state, Willie Obiano, for instance. He recently announced the incorporation of Miyetti Allah into Anambara state government and instituted the Kill-and-Pay policy – a morbid pact that permits Fulani herdsmen to kill their host communities as much as they might desire, provided they pay the state government the sum of ₦500,000 for each person killed. Obiano, of course, is acting out the script handed him by the caliphate who installed him.

Well, the desire of Biafrans – both Igbo speaking and non-Igbo speaking parts – is self-determination and not presidency. Of course, there may be an insignificant number (like the corrupt politicians and those who feed from their table), who might talk about Igbo presidency even though they know it’s unrealistic; the wishes of a few, however, cannot override the yearnings of the overwhelming majority. A referendum is therefore apt.

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Igbo Presidency: Your narrative that Buhari will cede power to S’East, biggest joke of the century - ILT fires back at Osita Okechukwu

                                                               

•Says Igbos, not deceived by antics of a northern slave seeking to please his masters

By Chukwuemeka Chimerue, Chief Editor | The Biafra Times


July 31, 2018

ENUGU - The Igbo Leaders of Thought, ILT, led by renowned constitutional lawyer, Professor Ben Nwabueze, has rubbished an ardent Buhari supporter cum Director General, Voice of Nigeria, Mr. Osita Okechukwu over his comments against the decision of the Igbo elders who routed for restructuring of the country rather than Igbo presidency.

Okechukwu who picked holes with the rejection of President Muhammadu Buhari’s promise of 2023 Igbo presidency by the elders, said Ndigbo needed Presidency to end cries of marginalisation.

But in a swift reaction on Monday, the founder of Igbo Youth Movement, IYM, cum Deputy Secretary, Igbo Leaders of Thought, ILT, Evangelist Elliot Ugochukwu-Uko, dismissed Okechukwu’s comments as the biggest joke of the century, even as he seriously questioned his state of mental health over such claims.

Uko said it is only unapologetic Igbo slaves such as Joe Igbokwe, Lauretta Onochie and Osita Okechukwu would readily rush to the media to counter the decisions of Igbo elders adjudged by many to be the truth only to please their northern masters, wondering if such notorious exhibitions was a precondition for their appointment into government offices.

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He, however, reiterated that “the infantile narrative that Buhari would grant Ndigbo the presidency of Nigeria in 2023 is a narrative from the pit of hell.

“How Okechukwu truly believes that he could use such unintelligible gibberish to fool the great Igbo nation remains a mystery to all.

“How Buhari, whose hatred for Ndigbo is legendary and so deep for all to see, would hand Nigeria over to Ndigbo in 2023 according to Okechukwu, has become the most popular joke of the year to millions of Igbo masses, who are seriously questioning the state of Okechukwu’s mental health.
“When will Okechukwu realize that he is entertaining the humiliated, alienated, much abused but highly intelligent Ndigbo. When will Okechukwu realize that he is merely speaking to himself and probably deceiving his masters in the bargain.

“It is a pity that anytime credible Igbo leaders show the way forward in order to save this tottering edifice called Nigeria, only our brethren in the service of outsiders, will quickly rubbish our leaders in their shameless scramble to impress their masters in order to retain their jobs.

“Government official spokesmen will keep quiet, government officials from other geopolitical zones will also keep quiet in respect of the truth presented by the Igbo leaders, only Joe Igbokwe, Lauretta Onochie or Osita Okechukwu will jump up to rubbish Igbo leaders.

“One wonders whether tearing their own leaders to pieces, was a precondition for their appointments and accommodation in government.

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“Okechukwu should remember that there is life after Buhari’s APC government. Okechukwu should study history and note the fate of the Ndigbo who were hired by other zones to attack Zik and the NCNC in the first republic.

“Presenting one’s talents and energy in service of outsiders to decimate the aspiration of one’s rationality is not an honourable way for anyone to be remembered by history.

Okechukwu should take heed and stop the over played card of always rubbishing his people’s position.

“Okechukwu should note that nobody in his proper state of mind believes that Buhari, who vehemently refused to appoint any Igbo into the security architecture of over 100 Nigerians, would suddenly hand power over to Ndigbo. Okechukwu should stop entertaining the public with his unbelievable fairy tales. The esteemed Igbo leaders of Thought (ILT) spoke the truth. Okechukwu's disagreement with that truth is only his usual antics to please his masters.”


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Biafra Referendum Is The Panacea, Not Igbo Presidency Nor Second Niger Bridge

By Dave O. Umahi | For Biafra Writers

July 19, 2018

All over Biafraland, and among Biafrans in the diaspora, the paramount issue is how to extricate ourselves, our land (Biafra), from the accursed and expired contraption called Nigeria. The restoration of Biafra as a sovereign and independent State is the one and only (major) agenda of Biafrans; we are determined about it.

As usual, Nigeria "leaders," whom have incurred mendacity and deception from the British colonialists, have been working round the clock, in a bid to hamper the quest for the restoration of the sovereignty of Biafra through political machinations. More often than not, it works for them, against gullible Biafrans that buy into their lies and deceits and then use them against their people’s true agenda. With this, they have been able to impede and muddle-up the primary agenda of the Biafran people. However, that was then. Times are different. The people have aligned themselves under one umbrella, the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB).

These machinations (Igbo presidency, construction of the Second Niger bridge, et al) outright, are the recurrence of past administrations. One would ask, was the Igbo presidency not proposed for 2019? Why all of a sudden it is now 2023? Many politicians of Igbo extraction have been sold to this idea, "Igbo presidency," and they have been using it to work against the unassailable quest of the Biafran people, which is referendum for independence. It is pertinent to note that in the past, they successfully used it to lure uninformed and unsuspecting Biafrans away from their true agenda. Too bad for them. However, this dispensation of Biafrans are wiser, through the unalloyed information and education from the leadership of IPOB and its iconic institution, Radio Biafra and Biafra Television. We now understand their ploys even before they are hatched.
How about the second Niger bridge, which was the superlative agendum in Buhari's manifesto during the 2015 electioneering campaign? The bridge in question was engineered to be completed before this time; spanning River Niger, linking Onitsha and Asaba - Biafraland. At this point, however, it is blatant that all these are "pawns" orchestrated to usurping the political mandates of the Biafran people each election year.

Nevertheless, the knowing Biafrans are already telling Buhari and his cohorts to forget about any plans of building such phoney bridge. Arguably, we Biafrans have better competences to setting up our structures more than Nigeria, and as such would want to build the bridge(s) ourselves; following our exit from the enclave, Nigeria.

Therefore, the quest for Biafra restoration remains unalterable, and per se unequalled to Igbo presidency or Second Niger bridge.

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