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| Buhari is a strong advocate for self-determination – when it comes to Palestine but not for BIAFRA |
General Muhammadu Buhari advocates for self-determination for far away people of Palestine and Western Sahara, while denying Biafrans right across to him the same inalienable rights.
Buhari extolling the virtues of “peaceful coexistence and self-determination”? Yep! And he did so in the hallowed Chamber of the United Nations General Assembly when he joined more than a hundred other heads of state, who recently converged in New York UN Headquarters, to listen to Pope Francis address the world body last week.
Buhari, being a devout Muslim, was surely not intoxicated when he passionately pleaded for “self-determination for the Palestinian people and those of Western Sahara, both nations having been adjusted [adjudged] by the United Nations as qualifying for this inalienable right must now be assured and fulfilled without any further delay or obstacle”. Buhari has indeed learnt a thing or two regarding the inalienable right of indigenous peoples for him to adroitly become a champion of the urgent desire of Western Sahara and Palestine to assert their right to self-determination “without any further delay or obstacle”. That’s the Buhari I like to see at the helm of affairs of today’s Nigeria!
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I sincerely wish that Buhari had included the above excerpt in his inaugural address with regards to the aspirations of millions of his very own compatriots who yearn for their own inalienable right to determine their own fate by themselves within their ancestral domains in the Unitary Nigerian state of the past half a century. The Arab people, on behalf of whom he pleads, have many other powerful individuals and groups advocating for them as we speak. By adding his own special voice behind the global quest for self-determination, Buhari is notifying the United Nations Assembly and Pope Francis that, as a stickler for fair play and natural justice, he shall remove all “obstacles” and delay tactics which might impede acquisition of the inalienable right to self-determination for the plundered nationalities in Nigeria, including the indigenous peoples of the Lower Niger. That is good stuff.
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| Biafrans yearn for freedom from Nigeria |
Those who had feared that Buhari might develop a heart attack and lash out instantaneously when confronted with the information about his fellow compatriots seeking their own self-determination may be terribly mistaking the changed mindset of the new occupant of the Aso Rock Villa. Buhari promised to lead as the agent of change. If his pronouncements at the UN General Assembly are anything to go by, the change which Nigeria really needs today, above everything else, may indeed be around the corner. With the incumbent president at the helm, aggrieved ethnic nationalities which have gotten the raw deal since a unitary Nigeria was imposed on May 24, 1966 through the promulgation of the Unification Decree No 34 can now proceed with utilizing the 2007 UN Declaration on Right of Indigenous Peoples (UNDRIP) to assert their inalienable right to self-determination, just like Western Sahara and Palestine.
Ironically Buhari has been killing innocent Biafrans protesting to be given the right to self-determination. The world is gleefully watching him as he slaughters Biafrans for daring to ask for self-determination!
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