We, the Yorùbá Leaders of Thought, comprising Ọbas, Chiefs, policy shapers, politicians, technocrats, intelligentsia, security-related groups, and socio-cultural groups, have met and decided for the Greater and Common Good of the Yorùbá, as follows:
1) The Yorùbá are resolute in their determination not to stand idle and watch our space and land desecrated. Only an arsonist allows a fire to burn and destroy. We will not permit strangers to abuse our hospitality and desecrate our hallowed land and our sacred spaces. Indeed, we invoke the ancient maledictions reserved for such malefactors. Our forests need no permission to swallow them.
2) The Yorùbá, are confronted by the realization that we are living in a time of bad metaphors. A time when dogs do not hearken unto the whistle of the hunter and the rivers which have forgotten their sources, still continue to flow. The world is turned inside out and the socio-political fabric of Nigeria is ripped into shreds. Today in Buhari’s Nigeria, the ship of state has veered dangerously off course, and heads almost irreversibly towards jagged rocks of destruction. Insecurity has reached such an abyss that hundreds of people are kidnapped in broad daylight with impunity.
3) The Yorùbá are convinced that Nigeria is on the verge of a catastrophic calamity, of potentially greater magnitude than either the internecine conflict of 1967 to 1970 or the brazen disenfranchisement of 1993! Nigeria as we know it, has embarked on uncharted seas, with nihilists as crewmen. We are a country divided along distrusting ethnic lines, exhausted by its failures, cynical about its own future, authoritarian by reflex and controlled as a personality cult by a section of the country. The relentless pursuit of power by a group of self servers, the ruthless cabal that respects neither Equity nor Equality, with an entrenched sense of entitlement, has taken away any sense of belonging to this union, by the Yorùbá. When injustice becomes law, resistance will be a duty!
4) The Yorùbá announce their exhaustion with this Government’s obsession with Lies and Denials of truths and facts. Farmers-Herders clashes are denied despite photographic evidence of massacres and eye-witness reports of mayhem. Terrorists roam the land in the garb of herdsmen, killing, raping, kidnapping and maiming, with little or no reaction from constituted authority. A high ranking Government official declares that bandits are not criminals.
5) The Yorùbá are perplexed by the fact that the Nigerian state is bombing the Eastern Security Network (ESN). Yet, the same Government is embracing and romancing terrorists. It is now safe to say this is a Government that panders to terrorists, protects terrorists, pays ransoms to terrorists, and prevaricates Terrorism, with absolutely no sanction by the Northern dominated security apparatus of Nigeria. How exactly can such a Government continue to seek the support of the Yorùbá going forward!?!
6) The Yorùbá hereby make known their opposition to Sheikh Gumi’s interaction with these dreaded terrorists. A video circulating on social media that shows the Sheikh trying to divide the Nigerian Army along religious lines is an abominable wake-up call. The Sheikh is guilty of incitement, when he claims that it is Christian soldiers who attack bandits to sow religious tension. To encourage bandits to be selective in their reprisal attacks and avoid women and children is tantamount to aiding and abetting Terrorism and sabotage. The Sheikh has forgotten that thousands of Christian soldiers have lost their lives battling Boko Haram and other Terrorists. The Nigerian Military is one of the few institutions that have resisted division along religious lines. By condoning Sheikh Gumi’s felonious pronouncements, the Government is allowing him to fan the embers of crisis, while hiding under the cloak of mediation.
7) The Yorùbá are convinced that the North is already at war with itself. Rather than face that situation squarely, the Northern-controlled Federal Government keeps trying to divert attention by teasing out conflicts in some areas and exporting crisis to other locations. The Yorùbá call it, “da bi mo se da”. It will not work. The Yorùbá will not swallow the bait and allow our hard-won inheritance to be consumed in the consequent conflagration.
Cognizant of the foregoing, It has become imperative that the territory that was known as Western Region under the 1963 Constitution, along with other peoples having affinities with the Yoruba Nation in Edo, Delta, Kogi and Kwara be organised in pursuit of our political identity and socio-economic welfare of all. Notwithstanding any politically correct labels, our quest is to think through and fashion out the pathway for the progress of our peoples at the homeland and across the world.
The Yorùbá hereby resolve as follows:
i) The Yorùbá have decided to embark on a venture of massive resistance to the issue of insecurity. Àmòtékún and other support systems, fully incorporating both Traditional and Modern security measures and systems have been integrated to form the South West Security and Stakeholders Group (SWSSG) which is presented to the Yorùbá and the world today. The role of SWSSG is the protection of our patrimony, our physical and human assets, our forests and our intangible legacies which have been inviolate and inviolable for over a millennium.
ii) The forests of the Yorùbá are sacred, untouchable, and out-of-bounds to terrorists. May the curses of all our forefathers hold to account all who attempt to cede even one inch of our forests to any ranch or settlement for the use of foreigners, despoilers, ruiners, ravagers and desecraters of our forests. Our forests house our spirituality, our Essence. Our Egungun, our Oro, our spirit, our food security, our culture, our Being!
iii) The Yorùbá distance themselves from the oft-repeated untruth that “Nigeria’s unity is non-negotiable”. This is nothing but a falsehood. Be it known, now and ever — “The unity of Nigeria is highly negotiable!” If we cannot be happy together, then let us find peace and joy, apart. Nigeria can only remain Nigeria if all parties agree to deal equitably with each other.
iv) The Yorùbá are resolute in their fierce determination to pursue vigorously our own chosen destiny to be FREE men and women, and never to be 2nd class citizens in our own land and space.
There was a well calculated bloodless coup in the old Eastern region of Nigeria on the 14th of March as all the pro Biafra movements across the globe united and declared the fearless and fiery former leader of the Niger Delta Volunteer Force (NDVF), Alhaji Asari Dokubu as the Defacto chairman of Biafra Customary Government.
Many political analysts and other keen sympathizers of Biafra question have described the entire event as a devastating blow to Nnamdi Kanu who is presently in exile.
In a world press conference organized by the egg heads of the new Biafra Nation and which was monitored by media houses , Asari Dokubo during his address was heard asking Biafrans all over the world the following questions:
“My comrades, how long will they tell us that they must forcefully enter our land and move their animals? How long will they tell us that the acceptable legal principles of ‘Cujus Est Solum Ejus Usque Ad Coelum’ (he who owns the land, owns all that is in the land, above the land or below the land) does not apply in our case?
“How long will Zamfara have the right to mine our gold and other solid mineral resources and we will not have same right to do so? How long will our creek, stream, water, riverlets belong to the omnibus Nigerian State that we have no right to all these resources, but they belong to the Nigerian state?
“How long will Alamesiya be convicted but an Atiku cannot be convicted? How long will a James Ibori be convicted but an Halu and El-Rufai cannot be convicted?
“How long will money belonging to the people of Delta State, 6.2 million pounds be taken, confiscated and spent in constructing road from Abuja to Kano, in constructing roads from Lagos to Ibadan?”
Asari further said that these are not Uche Mefor’s doing, these are not caused by Dokubo-Asari. It does not affect us alone. It affects every one of us.
He continued, “Fellow Biafrans, let us ask ourselves this question, simple question:
“Are you happy with Nigeria? Are you sure that you are satisfied with the life we are living? I am not satisfied with this life that I am living. I cannot play a second fiddle to anybody. I am Mujahid Abuakiri Dokubo-Asari, Alabo Edi Abali of Kalabari. I cannot be anything less. Will you want to be something less than what you are?”
Asari’s press conference has continued to generate positive reactions across the board. Millions of pro Biafra supporters have welcomed the new development while few who are still fiddling under the proscribed Indigenous People Of Biafra (IPOB) led by Nnamdi Kanu sees the new narrative as an apparent internal coup designed to further whittle down the influence of their leader.
24 hours after the declaration of Asari Dokubo as the chairman of Biafra Defacto Customary Government, events are changing and discipleship is also metamorphosing to the right direction.
However, all seems to be set in the old Eastern region as a new Biafra leader has emerged.
The people are anxiously waiting to see a new beginning. Something much more different from what they have witnessed in the last 9 years.
By Kalu Nwokoro Idika
Source: ElombahNews.
DISCLAIMER : Opinion articles are solely the responsibility of the author and does not necessarily reflect the views of the publishers of BVI Channel 1 Online
To be honest, I wasn’t quite surprised when the news reached me that Enugu State Government, under your leadership, was about to make a law whose end was to shell out huge monies in pensions, gratuities and allowances for former office holders, particularly former governors, their deputies and spouses. I was not surprised because it fits perfectly into the long entrenched prebendalism in the management of our affairs, more so as the permutations for 2023 continues to gather steam.
But I must tell you that I was disappointed, gutted and betrayed by the sheer insensitivity of such a generous misprioritisation at a time the state, the country and the entire world are in debilitating economic doldrums; a crushing blow brought upon us by the COVID-19 that has lasted 12 months already. I felt disappointed because, short of adding your name to such inglorious enterprise, there was really no point in making a vast ceremony of your intention to keep compensating your former benefactors, because they have been enjoying immense privileges for years under your watch.
Your Excellency, I recall that in 2017, the Leader of the Enugu State House of Assembly, Hon Ikechukwu Ezugwu, had introduced a Bill for a Law that would provide for lifetime pensions for former governors and their deputies. This Bill, eventually passed in May of the same year, was to provide pensions for all former governors of the State, including those of the old Anambra State. I remember that after its passage, Speaker of the State House of Assembly, Edward Ubosi, was reported to have said that; “the reason for passing this amended bill is to allow citizens of Enugu State, who have served this state as governors in Old Anambra and Old Enugu, to receive a pension. This will make them be like and feel like others and also reap from the benefit of their immense contributions to the development of the present Enugu State.”
Quite a reasonable validation from the Speaker!
Your Excellency sir, if in Enugu State, we already had a Law providing for the payment of pensions and gratuities for former governors and their deputies, what purpose does the new one being processed by the House of Assembly seek to serve, especially knowing that the most recent law in this regard was promulgated during your first term in office in 2017? Does it look like you have analysed the economic barometer and decided that the income of our retired governors, their deputies and spouses have become insufficient given the national and global economic realities, thus the need to make them earn a lot more? If yes, have you analysed the one of the poor workers in the state Civil Service along the same lines?
I am writing this to you with all sense of duty, first as a citizen of the state and second, as someone who was privileged to have worked with you and can reasonably predict the way you think. I am very certain that this article will be misunderstood and deliberately misinterpreted by your several minions as the outburst of one who was left out of the government dining table, but I really do not care anymore. I believe I owe you this debt of telling you the truth and as for my sojourn in your government, I will also tell my story pretty soon.

What, Your Excellency, if I might be allowed to repeat myself, is the importance of this selective new law when your government had an older one for the same purpose dating back four years? I have read some of the provisions of the new law and I am gutted by the sheer insensitivity of its purpose and provisions. Your government will, when this law is passed (as it certainly will), be paying the sum of N12 million to each of our former first ladies as “medical allowance.” You are also going to be providing their husbands with three cars every four years plus other undisclosed sums in gratuities and pensions.
Your Excellency, there are tons of reasons why you should not be seen to be running down this dark road during this time. I am certain that when asked, your defence would be that the Bill for this Law wasn’t an Executive Bill but a Private Member’s Bill, and so has nothing to do with you. Again, recall that I spent 18 months in your team and I know it would not surprise you that I am aware of the role Hon Ikechukwu Ezugwu plays as a liaison and deal-breaker of sorts between you and the State House of Assembly. I know that he frequented the Government House mostly during critical budget preparations and other testy negotiations that need someone to soften the House. Being from your own Udenu Local Government Area, I am aware that he plays important roles such as introducing Private Bills that has Executive handwriting all over its pages.
Again, I repeat: you should not be seen to be running down this road for these reasons:
Our workers are the most poorly paid in the country. Your Excellency, I wish to take you on a journey of elementary economics. Workers in Enugu State are communicated as the luckiest in this democratic dispensation because, as you often say, they get paid their salaries very regularly. But do you know how much these people are paid? I am aware that the average Grade Level 06 officer in our state earns less than N32,000 each month. This amount is just equivalent to an average sized goat! If you also want to invest it in a barbing salon, it can only buy you two Chaoba electric clippers (and Chaoba is the fake brand!). Assuming you are spending only N500 on food per day and another N500 on transport to work and back, this sum will merely ride you round the month and that means you will have to be going to work naked and you won’t even have to recharge your mobile phone. In fact, you wouldn’t be able to afford a phone!
Accountants and accounts clerks who would be preparing the salary schedules for these former political office holders would be having heart attacks looking at so much money going out to people whose only claim to such free monies was having been a former governor, former deputy or spouse to any of these.
Your Excellency, let us even look at the N12 million you plan to be paying the wives of former governors and deputies as health allowances. Packaging them as allowances, mean you are committing to paying them these sums each year, whether they fall sick or not. Are you aware that this allowance translates to a whopping N1 million each month? Do you realise that it would take your Grade Level, 06 officer, about three years to earn what a former first lady would be paid as health allowance in just one month?
This is so unjust, so unjustifiable, Your Excellency.
Prebendalism is not a shortcut to populism. I took 18 months to study your political philosophy and strategy. It bothers on what I have worked hard to summarise in two words – representative prebendalism and by this, I mean the selection from across the state, of privileged people who are entitled to sharing government resources among themselves, for and on behalf of the people they represent. You have also garnished this by surrounding yourself and closely associating with political family trees, convincing yourself they are and will continue to be, enough to perpetuate your political influence and philosophy in the state. It is this prebendalism that has continued to make you recycle the same entitled group, rewarding them with huge patronage in exchange for good testimonials, especially as the battle for who replaces you as governor and who goes to Senate for Enugu North in 2023 are concerned.
You were an insurance salesman all your life pre-2003 and in your calculation, you need to constantly renew your policies with the elite of Enugu State to be sure they’d perpetually be enamoured of you and therefore give their blessings (on behalf of the rest of us of course) for every dream and vision of yours no matter how toxic such might be to the general wellbeing.
It is this prebendalism that has continued to make you recycle the same entitled group, rewarding them with huge patronage in exchange for good testimonials, especially as the battle for who replaces you as governor and who goes to Senate for Enugu North in 2023 are concerned.
This strategy has worked very well for you: it got you the governorship of the state against all odds in 2015; it got you endorsed by everyone and everything, souls and spirits, in the state all through the years. But I am not sure it will lead you to the destination you are currently designing for yourself. Strategists would tell you there’s no need changing a winning formula, but the beginning of the end of empires have mostly been occasioned by not refreshing hitherto very effective strategies to meet emerging dynamics. Caesar’s Rome fell for this reason; Napoleon’s France perished for same reason and as recently as 1945, Adolf Hitler’s Nazi regime met its dénouement because, although the strategy he unleashed on the world in 1939, at the onset of the First World War, was novel, unconventional and effective, by 1945, the world already had the antidote that effectively neutralised his quest for world conquest.
You need to begin to speak to the people through other means than these old empire-sovereigns.
Enugu State cannot afford it. I do not know which numbers you rely on for your economic analytics and policies, but you cannot deny knowing that Enugu State is not in the best financial stead to sustain this regime of profligacy masquerading as pensions for former governors. A report released by the National Bureau of Statistics had claimed the state grossed only N31 billion in internally generated revenue for the year 2019. I am sure this hasn’t significantly changed since then and if you place it side-by-side the projected spending of N169 billion for year 2021, the precarious nature of the state’s economy becomes searingly clear.
While your government is working hard to create needless spending apertures, some other states in better financial steads have initiated moves to close such self-inflicted resource drains. The Lags State Governor, Babajide Sanwo-Olu, initiated plans to stop such frivolous payments back in 2020. The population of Lagos far outstrips that of Enugu and its IGR of nearly N400 billion dwarfs that of Enugu (N31 billion). Yet, cost-containment in this area is worrying Lagos while in Enugu, government officials have not only been bragging about how this regime has to continue, but are making fresh laws to widen the associated prebendaries. Commissioner for Information, Chidi Aroh had, prior to the fresh Bill, told This Day in November 2020 that Enugu had no plans to stop paying former governors, famously saying that, “States are not a secondary school together. If Lagos State says they are scrapping their pensions for governors that is their position. If Kwara has said that, it is their own position.”
Only the commissioner understands what he meant by this rather arrogant response and I hope he wasn’t suggesting that Enugu is a truant state that is entitled to waste its time while others made progress.
Enugu State is reeling in debt. According to a report by Business A.M., Enugu State is one of the states encumbered by domestic and foreign debt. According to the Debt Management Office (DMO), Enugu State, along with 25 other “generous states” indulging in this unpopular pensions’ payments are owing a total o N4 trillion locally and internationally.
I could not get the share of the state government of this debt, but the figure is so dizzying you wonder why a government with such burden would be regularly reviewing upwards, the allowances of its former governors and their wives. In other words, we are actually borrowing money to pay people we are not owing!
Your pension and gratuity liabilities are staggering. Your Excellency, during the 18 months I spent in your service, pensioners in the state held a couple of protest marches in Enugu. Meetings were also held with these retired, tired old men and women during which promises were made towards the payment of outstanding gratuities and pension arrears, some dating back to the administration of Chimaroke Nnamani. The eldest man in my Umuezediko village in Nguru Nsukka, Onyishi Ekete Eze, was one of those that was being asked to frequent Enugu for these meetings. I also met Mrs Perpetua Ozioko, a woman who had taught me in my primary school days attending such meetings. These are just two names I could remember that became regular financial burdens, as I had to bear the costs of their feeding and transportation back to Nsukka after each meeting.
I have been speaking to Onyishi Ekete Eze and there has not been any indication he has received his arears of pension.
Ekete is in his 90s. He lost his son in February 2021 and has no other source of income. But for the financial contributions of some of us, it would have been impossible for him to find reason to continue living. But this is a man who served the Enugu State Government until retirement. A handful people that were in office for only eight years (less than a quarter of the years invested by these neglected patriots) are being prioritized over those who gave all their youth and intellect to the service of the state.
There is no way anyone can justify the new (and even the old) pension and gratuities for these former governors and their deputies. In the local Nsukka parlance, it amounts to pouring water into pots already filled to the brim, in an environment replete with empty pots.
I know of the permutations towards 2013. I know all the calculations. But Your Excellency sir, let everything not become politics. For a minute, stand back from yourself and examine your environment from a disinterested point of view, especially away from the deafening din of the retinue of professional praise singers around you. You would realise how cruel and insensitive some of your policies are. The plan to enhance the pay of your predecessors is one of them.
I know I cannot stop you from towing an already decided path. But I can at least speak out. For posterity.
The Federal Government has described the reported formation of Biafra Customary Government by Asari Dokubo as a “theatre of the absurd by a joker seeking attention’’.
Speaking with the News Agency of Nigeria on the development in Lagos on Monday, the Minister of Information, and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, said the President, Muhammadu Buhari (retd.)’s regime will not be distracted by the absurdity.
“I am sure you have heard of the theatre of the absurd, that is the best way I can describe it“ If Asari Dokubo wants to form and run a fathom government, I think he is free to do so“
This administration will not be distracted because we still have a lot to do.
”We are not ready to give any attention or time to a joker like Dokubo who is just looking for attention.
“We will just take it as one of these entertainment things.
“The beauty about Nigeria is that it is never a dull country, you must have one thing or the other to entertain you,’’ he said.
PRM is for Public interest, not for any Personal interest. If you desire positive change for all the people, PRM is for you .But if you desire good things for only you and family members, then find your way because you are part of the problems in our society. If you are looking for where they share money biko biko stay very far from PRM.
If you are willing to make sacrifice to guarantee good governance in Anambra state, trust PRM. If you love money so much to sell your vote (conscience, right and power) on election day, PRM is your enemy but if you condemn vote buying and selling and will reject selling yours or working for a candidate to buy other people’s vote on or before election day, PRM is your best friend.
My people, let’s tell ourselves the truth. We are our problem. If we change our ways and do things rightly, everything will be okay. Our attitudes towards election are wrong and that had made our elections uninteresting which translates to bad governance.
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Ironically, many do not understand the person and leadership qualities of Prof. Charles Chukwuma Soludo is made of. His silence on political propaganda and infamous promises made by some Guber aspirants on establishing 11 or 21 universities in the state when they become governor is something many have seen as someone who doesn’t have the required mojo and set leadership skills to harness Anambra’s resources and turn it into a world class fast growing economy in the country.
For record purposes and posterity respectively , When he took over as the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) Governor in 2004 June to be precise , it took him only but a month (July) to convene a special meeting of the Banker’s Committee to partner with his ideas and direction on how to constructively drive major policy shift in the banking industry.
It is crucial to observe that Soludo did not impose his ideas on the system but welcomed all interested banks to send in their proposals or ideas on how his leadership as CBN governor will be in the best position to serve the financial system and the Nigerian economy better in the years ahead.
Such display of inclusiveness in policy formulation is a rare quality many administrators and technocrats lack today but Soludo displayed such over a decade ego and consolidated the Nigerian financial sector which was at the verge of collapsing before his emergence .
Soludo wasn’t arrogant or power hungry but someone who carries his subordinates along to ensure they understand his plans and cue in for synergy and success.
“I will share the strategic agenda with you and the generality of Nigerians in due course, especially in respect of the agenda for ensuring exchange rate and price stability, managing interest rate for stability and development, macroeconomic coordination, vigorous pursuit of the developmental roles of the Central Bank, improvement of the payments system, financial sector diversification, regulatory reforms, and strategies for integrating Nigeria’s financial system into the African region and global financial system”.
Prof. Charles Chukwuma Soludo is a man who does his homework well, articulate every move and strategy to get it done and eventually makes it a success.
It is in his gene and he needs few or no details to actualizing his set out plans.
Ndi Anambra shouldn’t make mistake of ignoring a man who’s pedigree and policy formulations based on antecedents are second to none.
Does Soludo have a realistic plan for Ndi Anambra, yes he does and only him at this point can confidently and courageously with his immerse knowledge of international economic policy, build a stable and sustainable state economy in Nigeria to pragmatically build on the attractive developmental strides of His Excellency Chief Dr Willie Obiano ( Akpokuedike Global) in the state.
We must equally intimate the reading public that oppositions in the state are constantly checking their Blood pressure, because they knew that Soludo is more qualified , more educated , equally experienced and globally exposed than themselves within the race .
Anambra state needs a man that will harness our potential and build on our already existing gaint strides to skyrocket the development and economic policies for better Anambra in years to come.
True, all socio-economic indicators favour a Soludo governorship of Anambra State to build on Governor Willie Obiano’s good works for the next development glories.
Soon, Anambra will have over 38 million people in our relatively small landmass to look after. This will come with the daunting challenges of how to feed them, house them, educate them, cater for their health and well being, ensure the safety of their lives and property, ensure that they breathe fresh air, drink pure, clean and safe water, create meaningful and gainful employment, key Anambra into the 4th industrial revolution and many more. In other words, this has to do with how to make Anambra a livable place where the world will come to invest, live, work and find pleasure.
The foregoing I think, should define the contestations of ideas and values in the public domain by all those running for the office of Governor of Anambra State as November 6, 2021 approaches.
It is however, important that voters should take charge of undertaking integrity tests or due process in evaluating candidates before making their choices. Such choices need to take into account, the split second changes which digitalization throws into the operating environment, the dwindling revenue from Abuja as we move daily, to a post-oil era, plus the need for the state to elect a governor that appreciates how we can get the full benefits of Governor Obiano’s magnificent legacy projects.
Another contextual issue is the beauty and depth of work done by the committee on the 50-year development plan for Anambra State and the need to have somebody who can drive the next phase of development in the state, arising from the robust recommendations of the committee. But more important, is the imperative for the leader to be imbued with the soft skills that is briefly outlined in the next paragraph.
A school of thought which I ascribe to, holds the opinion that the choice of leaders for both private and public offices should be based on the 3As, namely Availability, Ability and Amiability. Availability captures the need for a leader that is on ground, knows the state inside out and is around always to listen and act. Ability refers to the capacity or competence of the leader, borne out of natural endowments, education, exposure and hands-on experience, to deploy public policies to up the ante while amiability is about the leader’s respect for ideas and feelings of his followers and assistants
Long before INEC announced the timetable for Anambra 2021 election, the critical mass in Anambra had scored Prof. Chukwuma Soludo very high on the 3As. That underpinned the massive clamour by more than 21 self-funding support groups for him to run in the said election, which climaxed in his acceptance.
Now come Saturday, March 20, Soludo supporters will gather in Awka at the Prof. Dora Akunyili Womens’ Development Centre, under the umbrella of the All Soludo Support Groups (ASSG), for a Praise and Worship outreach that will signal massive knocks on doors to spread the good news from Soludo with a view to winning One Million HEARTS in the next phase of their mobilisation. Truly, Soludo is the Solution and the odds sure favour him as the next Governor of Anambra state.
Joe C. Anatune
Anatune writes from Awa in Orumba North Local Government Area, Anambra State
The Biafra National Council BNC, felicitates with her National Chairman Edi-Abali of Kalabari Kingdom, Alhaji Asari Dokubo on his meritorious emergence as the Head of Biafra De-facto/Customary Government Implementation Committee. The press statement was released to BVI Channel 1 online by the group Spokesman -Mazi Chukwu Sunday and reads in full ‘ This appointment has further widen the breeze of unity amongst the people of Old Eastern Region to dispel the uncouth distortions and paranoid from the enemies of our souls, the neocolonial slave masters of Nigeria – Fulani, that Igbo are domineering and want to feather its nest on the entire East.
We specially thank the Biafra Reconciliation Committee who saw the skillful artifacts of the enemies of our souls and swiftly acted accordingly. We also thank them for seeing the adroit quality of BNC Chairman and his impeccable character to deserve this special TRUST.
Our appreciation go to Likes of: Chief Ralph Uwazuruike, Barr. Emeka Emekesiri, Mazi Uchenna Asiegbu (omio-mio) , Elder Iju Lawson, Uche Okafor Mefor, Engr. Christian Nwosu, Ikenna Nwanonenyi, Ikenna Obibi Egeonu, George Onyibe, Rita Ebere Anigbogu, Ugochukwu Nmaram etc.
Biafra National Council relates the leadership quality of Chief Asari Dokubo:
1. He is selfless.
2. He honors and respect the place and position of Elders and also do not provoke younger ones.
3. He loves justice.
4. He does not hear the cry of oppressed and remain at ease.
5. He is unassuming.
6. He is bold and lion hearted.
7. He has the fear of God. etc.
Chief Asari Dokubo had once been on muddy waters; stained with murky flush just for his people. He relocated his tent to the thick vegetations and dwell among the wild lives and mosquitoes just because his people need freedom from the hands of the oppressors.
He was later chained with hot irons and dropped incommunicado in his search for justice for his people yet he was not deterred.
We further let Biafrans to know, that a successful leader is the one that has the support of his people – therefore we encourage all hands to be on deck! We appeal for mass movement and solidarity of Biafra people in unity. Cessation of all manner of campaign calumny and character assassination of any of our proven leaders as this will be measured with consequences.
Asari’s emergence can simply be translated as the language of UNIFICATION. In this order we ask all our people rally round him. For the interest of our Commonwealth the Igbo, Okay, Ogoja, Akwa-Cross, Ejeghan, Andoni, Efik, Ogoni etc are to submit men of worthy character to the Interim Biafra Government to form a broad base viability round about our territory. All Pro-Biafra groups are called to embrace this De-facto Customary Government Implementation Committee ably led Asari Dokubo as this is the final push hopefully preceding Biafra full Sovereignty’ the statement concluded
