Read how Jonathan’s men sponsoring pro-Biafran protests–Group



Eniola Akinkuotu
A pan-Igbo group, The Igbo Conscience, says
some former political office holders who
served in the administration of former
President Goodluck Jonathan were behind the
Biafran revolt.
The TIC said this was why the protests
gained momentum immediately after
Jonathan was defeated at the poll.
The leader of the group, Mr. Monday Ubani,
who is a former Chairman of the Nigerian Bar
Association, Ikeja branch, said this at a news
conference in Lagos on Wednesday.
Ubani noted that during Jonathan’s
administration, many Igbo politicians were
given juicy appointments.
He, however, added that the appointments did
not improve the standard of living of the
people of the South-East.
He said, “As recently as six months ago, the
Igbo occupied and boasted of occupying
prime positions in the country during the six
years of President Jonathan’s rule. Why is it
that immediately after the defeat of the past
regime in March, the cries of Igbo
marginalisation rose to high heavens with
slanderous allegations against the President-
elect?
“What were the merits the Ndigbo derived
from this much-vaunted strategic placing in
critical positions for six years? Should the
Igbo be crying of marginalisation just a few
months after sitting on the upper echelons of
the country’s political and economic spheres
if these political beneficiaries benefitted the
Ndigbo with their positions?
“Should roads and other facilities in the
South-East be as dilapidated as they are
today if we benefitted from these former office
holders, some of whom are sponsoring the
present agitations?”
Ubani said many Igbo youths had been
brainwashed into believing that secession
was the only way to address national
problems.
He said even the late leader of the defunct
Republic of Biafra, Chukwuemeka Odumegwu-
Ojukwu, said that the Biafran struggle was a
“struggle of the mind and not a physical one.”
He noted that countries like Pakistan and
South Sudan, which seceded from India and
Sudan respectively, had not fared better even
after attaining independence.
He, therefore, urged the protesting youths to
have a rethink.
Ubani said the philosophy of the Movement
for the Actualisation of the Sovereign State of
Biafra was at variance with Ojukwu’s and that
was why the late Igbo leader never identified
with MASSOB.
He said the Director of Radio Biafra, Nnamdi
Kanu, was an impostor and did not have the
interests of the Igbo at heart.

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