By Amos Igbebe, Asaba
A Chieftain of the People’s Democratic Party in Delta State, Prince Alexander Igbinoba, has condemned the continued call for Biafra Republic by members of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) and Movement for the Actualisation of the Sovereign State of Biafra (MASSOB).
Last Wednesday, Governor Ifeanyi Okowa of Delta State told a gathering of journalists that Delta had no business with the agitation for the Biafra Republic, calling the Biafran agitators to look elsewhere and rule out Delta from the Republic of Biafra.
Chief Igbinoba who addressed journalists at his country home in Eku, Ethiope East, said the call for Biafra Republic would never be achieved describing as unfortunate that the youths who are bent on Biafra republic had no knowledge of the beginning of the struggle and how it had failed all along.
He said the struggle for Biafra end with Chief Odimegwu Ojukwu, saying Ojukwu knew that actualizing the struggle not feasible, even as he described those agitating for it now as youths exhibiting madness by destroying cars, houses and other valuables on the streets of Nigeria.
He particularly picked a failure from the struggle considering the fact that notable Ibo people have remained aloof as promising youths are destroying themselves in the struggle for a Republic which will never see the daylight.
Chief Igbinoba added though dead, he will hold Ojukwu responsible for the plight of the Ibos in the present day Nigeria, noting that after 50 years to the end of the initial agitation “what do the Ibos still want to do by separating themselves out of the other parts of Nigeria?”.
He paid glowing tributes to General Gowon whom he considered to be the best Head of state and leader for even regarding Ojukwu as a brother not out of cheer selfishness, advising the Ibos to stop the agitation for Biafra Republic for the country to move forward.
He said the person being prosecuted for their involvement in the arms deal scandal should be tried for murder, explaining that those who died from the attack of the insurgents would not have died if the money was spent for what it was meant.
