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| No longer Niger Delta or Igbo BUT Biafra - Asari Dokubo |
Alhaji Dokubo announced the new alliance at the weekend during the Biafra Day celebration, organised by the leader of MASSOB, Chief Ralph Uwazuruike, at the Ojukwu Memorial Library and Conference in Owerri, which was attended by thousands of members of the two groups.
Dokubo and Uwazuruike assured their members at the ceremony that the actualisation of Biafra was near.
Alhaji Dokubo, who addressed the large crowd, said the South-South and the South-East no longer had Niger Delta or Igbo, but Biafra.
He assured MASSOB members that they would soon realise their dream for an independent state.
“We will soon complete the race. There is no need for you to be fatigued; the finishing line is not very far again. No power can stop our independence, our freedom is near,” he said, as the crowd went into wild jubilation.
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He cautioned the new government of General Muhammadu Buhari on any attempt to arrest any freedom fighter in the country.
He advised the new President to rather, concentrate on his election promises, saying that very soon, they would rise up to hold him accountable to his words.
Dokubo recalled that three Ijaw kings went on exile because of Biafra with two of them dying there, stressing that the Niger Delta people and the Igbo had been brothers right from time.
Uwazuruike, who spoke earlier, said this year’s Biafra Day was significant as Dokubo came to join force with him in the Biafra struggle.
“Asari Dokubo has been here since two days because of this occasion,” he said, pointing out that before he formed MASSOB in 1999, he had gone to the Niger Delta region to solicit their support.
The MASSOB leader said: “Biafra is now assured as we have the support of the Niger Delta people.”
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Asari doesn't have the right to include Niger delta in the so called Biafra republic. Asari should be be informed that it's first arrest was highly castigated bcos then he was pure in its struggle but now if anything happens to him no single person will move bcos he has compromised long ago. He is now a very wealthy man. What I see any government that favors them they keep quiet but ones not favorable they shout with Niger delta agitation. Do they really care about the people who had lost their lives in the struggle in the past 2 decades? But your children lives and school abroad. What about the children of those who lost their lives. Merge your self and the so called Biafra. Don't ever mention your village name bcos they will follow you.
ReplyDeleteHe has every right my man
ReplyDeleteIt's very simple, the current Biafran struggle is yet to fully involve the people in the south, yet they include them in their map. It is paramount for them to note that their struggles will fail again this time if they seat at home and include us in their map without due consultation and a referendum for us to determine where we want, we equally have the right to self determination, to either be with Biafra or choose to declare Niger Delta Republic.
ReplyDeleteI dont understand this guy. I dont trist him either . Let the striggle ne more action/ planning n less talk. Memorial lecture is fan fare n mot anything forecfill. Asari n iwazuriki shoild be talking of the release pf Nmamdi Kanu. Injustice to one is injustice to all..
ReplyDeleteThe only man we know in biafraland that can restore it is, mazi nnamdi kanu. A man who have stand strong for the restoration of biafra, not uwazurike and asari who have been compromised by nigerian government and enriched themself!
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