Nnamdi Kanu, leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), has said the Igbo people are the only reason why Nigeria still exists as a geopolitical entity.
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Kanu made this claim in a statement her personally signed and was issued by Emma Powerful, IPOB’s Media and Publicity Secretary, on Sunday.
According to the IPOB leader, the Igbo are an industrious people who are not bent on grabbing crude oil in order to dominate other ethnic nationalities, but is pursuing the actualisation of Biafra to get their freedom from Nigeria.
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He described persons purportedly insinuating the struggle of Biafra as that of oil as propagandists.
The statement read: “Contrary to unfounded misconceptions in some quarters, Ndigbo are not greedy or domineering but very accommodating and forbearing.
“They are easy-going and enterprising people whose successes in life have rather earned them envy and jealousy instead of the admiration and applause of their neighbours.
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“The fact remains that Igbo are loving, accommodating, peaceful and enterprising people. They are the reason Nigeria has survived till date.
“The thinking, therefore, that we are after Biafra so that the Igbo can dominate other ethnic nationalities in the new Republic and ultimately claim their oil deposits is uncalled for. “Such unnecessary fear and warped opinion should be discarded as they are unfounded and only a propaganda tool of those who want to perpetually pin us down in the British bondage called Nigeria.
“Igbo have enough crude oil and other mineral deposits to sustain her people as a country but the quest for Biafra is for the freedom and overall interest of all the ethnic nationalities involved.”
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Kanu claimed that Igboland is the only place in the world where coal, oil, gas and highly-sought-after minerals are deposited side by side.
He also accused Dave Umahi, Governor of Ebonyi State, of inviting Chinese expatriates to pillage the state of its natural resources.
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He added that the Biafra agitation is not about natural resources as the tribe’s greatest natural resource “is our God-given ingenuity and intelligence not something located under the grounds”
“However, the fact is that BLOOD is thicker than WATER. All Biafrans are one people and we are leaving Nigeria at the same time,” the statement read.
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