The Biafran: Okurounmu

Thursday, 11 September 2014

Ekwueme, Clark, Okurounmu and others ask Jega to resign over ethnically-biased polling units

The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) chairman, Professor Atahiru Jega has been asked to resign for nursing ethnic agenda that would favour his native north in the planned Nigeria's 2015 general elections.

The leadership of the Southern Nigeria Peoples Assembly (SNPA), led by former Vice President, Dr Alex Ekwueme; a former Federal Minister of Information, Chief Edwin Clark; and Senator Femi Okurounmu, asked Prof. Jega, to resign from office with immediate effect.

Republic of Biafra Anthem

Land of rising sun, we love and cherish,
Beloved homeland of our brave heroes;
We must defend our lives or we shall perish,
We shall protect our hearts from all our foes;
But if the price is death for all we hold dear,
Then let us die without a shred of fear.

Hail to Biafra, consecrated nation,
O fatherland, this be our solemn pledge:
Defending thee shall be a dedication,
Spilling our blood we’ll count a privilege;
The waving standard which emboldens the free
Shall always be our flag of liberty.

We shall emerge triumphant from this ordeal,
And through the crucible unscathed we’ll pass;
When we are poised the wounds of battle to heal,
We shall remember those who died in mass;
Then shall our trumpets peal the glorious song
Of victory we scored o’er might and wrong.

Oh God, protect us from the hidden pitfall,
Guide all our movements lest we go astray;
Give us the strength to heed the humanist call:
To give and not to count the cost’ each day;
Bless those who rule to serve with resoluteness,
To make this clime a land of righteousness.

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Thursday, 11 September 2014

Ekwueme, Clark, Okurounmu and others ask Jega to resign over ethnically-biased polling units