By Yinka Ajayi (source... Nigeria Vanguard news paper)
Chief Chuckwuemeka Ezeife, a former governor of the old Anambra State, blames the President Muhammadu Buhari-led administration for the huge support pro-Biafra activists are getting in the South-East.
The agitation for Biafra lingers 45 years after civil war. What is the problem?
You and I are aware that MASSOB is a movement for the actualization of Biafran state. But most of our people see them as a pressure group.
It is in recent time that the group started gaining acceptability among serious politicians from the South-East. Otherwise the agitators are merely perceived as a pressure group. There is also the major problem of politicians from the South-East that aspire to become the President of Nigeria one day.
That is why they have not identified with MASSOB. But what is happening presently is because of the way the country is going, especially the way the South-East is treated like unwanted part of the country. This triggers more recruits for MASSOB.
From this stand, the fire of Biafra is stoked by the President Buhari-led administration. It is not a matter of autonomous growth or development. All his actions in the South-East in appointments and denial caused the increase in people buying into the MASSOB agenda. Because our people say: “ a person rejected, does not reject himself.”
Should that prompt some groups to the extent of floating a pirate radio to achieve their cause?
If you feel persecuted, of course you fight with whatever means you know is justified for you
Chief Chuckwuemeka Ezeife, a former governor of the old Anambra State, blames the President Muhammadu Buhari-led administration for the huge support pro-Biafra activists are getting in the South-East.
The agitation for Biafra lingers 45 years after civil war. What is the problem?
You and I are aware that MASSOB is a movement for the actualization of Biafran state. But most of our people see them as a pressure group.
It is in recent time that the group started gaining acceptability among serious politicians from the South-East. Otherwise the agitators are merely perceived as a pressure group. There is also the major problem of politicians from the South-East that aspire to become the President of Nigeria one day.
That is why they have not identified with MASSOB. But what is happening presently is because of the way the country is going, especially the way the South-East is treated like unwanted part of the country. This triggers more recruits for MASSOB.
From this stand, the fire of Biafra is stoked by the President Buhari-led administration. It is not a matter of autonomous growth or development. All his actions in the South-East in appointments and denial caused the increase in people buying into the MASSOB agenda. Because our people say: “ a person rejected, does not reject himself.”
Should that prompt some groups to the extent of floating a pirate radio to achieve their cause?
If you feel persecuted, of course you fight with whatever means you know is justified for you
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