2023: Nigeria’s faulty system may deny Igbo presidential slot – Uwazuruike

By Phil Okose Onitsha

The founder and leader of Movement for Actualization of Sovereign State of Biafra, MASSOB, otherwise called Biafra Independent Movement, BIM, Chief Ralph Uwazuruike, gave reasons why Igbo may not get the presidential slot come 2023 presidential election and beyond.

According to him, Nigeria’s faulty system may deny Igbos presidential slot ” there is politics of hatred and lack of trust  by other ethnic groups,” stating that “the Igbo are not ready to be on their knees for them to be given the slot.”

Uwazuruike who spoke through his Senior Special Adviser, SSA, on media and publicity, elder Chris Mocha, in Onitsha, Anambra state stated that, “Igbo people are not ready to  kneel,  prostrate, beg Hausa/Fulani or Yoruba  for the purpose of producing next president come 2023”

In a press release issued to newsmen by Mocha it disclosed that the faulty system of Nigeria did not need Ndigbo but lamented that politicians from southeast have never  learnt their lesson by listening to BIM- MASSOB.

“It’s sacrilegious and not in our  culture or tradition to kneel for any body, the release stated.

“Igbo tribe is hated by other sections of nigeria particularly hausa/fulani of the north and yoruba of south west and this hatred has no end in sight in the foreseeable future.

That is why the Federal Government is not willing or reluctant to gazette the proscription of bandits and armed fulani herdsmen as a terrorist organization three weeks after, but was quick to do same  to Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, four days after the Igbo group was proscribed on September 2017”.

“We want Biafra because Igbo are regarded as inferior subjects in the affairs of the country and can only cast vote for other tribes  but can never be voted for”.

“We have no country holding us together as nigerians because  nigerians are pretending to have a country when indeed, they have been fumbling and wobbling since independence yoked us together in the contraption called Nigeria”.

” We want Biafra because while over 50 million easterners are protesting that since 1970, not a single person from the southeast has ruled Nigeria, some politicians from the North and South west who have ruled Nigeria for many years are now warming up to  contest  for the 2023 general elections without giving human thought or consideration to the cries  of marginalization of the South easterners  who felt they have  been cheated and are regarded  as second class citizens”

“This was evident why rotational presidency is still giving the Hausa-fulani and yoruba  political elites some nightmares,” Mocha said.

Continuing, he said”, there was a conspiracy between the North and South west  people in the military against the Igbo of Southeast that the Igbo as a defeated people after the war will not raise their heads to rule Nigeria till after 200 years.”

Mocha revealed further that late Dr. Alex Ifeanyichukwu Ekwueme of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) was a victim of this conspiracy at the Jos convention in 1998.

“This deliberate exclusion of the Igbo from governance in the country since after the civil war was part of the reason for the formation  of MASSOB on September 13, 1999 by an Indian trained non – violence crusader, Chief Ralph Uwazuruike,  to pursue vigorously the realization of a separate state for the people of former eastern region devoid of violence”.

Insisting that  president of Igbo extraction will never be realised even after 2023, BIM/ MASSOB urged  Ohanaeze Ndigbo to fully throw its weight behind Biafra ,stating that, “only the emerging country with the name and title, Republic of Biafra will end Igbo marginalization”.