IPOB yesterday announced the launching of ’Biafrexit’ as its campaign
slogan. Spokespersons of the group, Barrister Emma Nmezu and Dr.
Clifford Chukwuemeka Iroanya, who announced this in a statement made
available to Daily Post accused British Prime Minister, David Cameron of
exhibiting hypocritical attitude towards the Biafran course.
The statement was entitled: “There Must Be ‘Biafrexit’ In Line With The Just Concluded ‘Brexit’”.
It read: “The British Government, which is the closest ally of the
Nigerian Government must, as a mark of exemplary leadership, guide
Muhammadu Buhari and his colleagues to organize a BIAFREXIT akin to the
recently organized BREXIT.
“The Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) congratulates the Government and
people of Britain for organizing the BREXIT vote and applaud them for respecting the wishes of her citizens.
“However, it smacks of hypocrisy that the same David Cameron that
initiated the BREXIT vote has been propping up the Buhari‘s Government
in their murderous acts of suppressing the quest by Biafrans to exit
from Nigeria.
This leaves Biafrans to ask if David Cameron’s hypocrisy is because
Biafrans are blacks and if black Africans are inferior to white British
people?
“Why does David Cameron think that what is good for the white British
people is not good for the black people of Africa especially Biafrans? The prime minister, in organizing BREXIT is taking advantage of the
rights of people to make their choice.
“But in denying Biafrans the right to choose their own nation, David
Cameron is telling Biafrans that they are inferior because of the colour
of their skin. David Cameron is directly telling Biafrans that because
they come from an inferior race, they do not deserve to exist as a
nation of their own choice.”
“There are indications that Scotland will restart their agitation for
separation from Britain and both David Cameron and his would-be
successor will not stop them nor will they roll out tanks and other
lethal weapons to mow down the Scots like the British-supported Nigeria
has been doing to Biafrans.
“We have to re-emphasize here that self-determination is a right that
must be exercised by all free people. Even Donald Trump, the
presidential candidate of the Republican Party in the USA tweeted on the
24th of June, 2016 that ‘Self-determination is the sacred right of all
free peoples.’
“By blocking the self-determination efforts of Biafrans through overt
and covert supports to Muhammadu Buhari, is David Cameron telling the
world that Biafrans are still in slavery despite the abolition of
slavery in 1833?
“IPOB has also observed with keen interest the consistent British
Government’s official policy of not supporting any Christian nation that
needs support for independence or that is going through any form of
internal/external aggression.
“On the other hand, the British Government has always supported a Muslim
nation against a Christian nation in any conflict just as they
supported the Muslim-dominated Nigeria to carry out genocide against a
Christian Biafran nation between 1967 and 1970.
“While IPOB is not against the religious inclinations of any nation, we
do note with concern the British Government’s penchant for supporting
Muslim nation against a Christian nation.
“We also note the faulty argument by David Cameron and the British
Government that they do not want to alter the pre-independence
territorial integrity of Nigeria. But this same territorial integrity of
Nigeria was tampered with by the ceding of Bakassi to Cameroun.
We recall that in 1982 Britain went to war with Argentina over the
Falkland Islands but this same Britain never supported Nigeria to
prevent the ceding of Bakassi to Cameroun and this distortion of the
pre-independence territorial integrity of Nigeria is the same excuse
used by Britain to continue to keep Biafra under Nigeria.
“From the success of BREXIT, we call upon the incoming Prime Minister to
work with Buhari to speedily organize BIAFREXIT.
“In addition, we warn the incoming Prime Minister that failure to probe
the criminality of Buhari against the Biafrans will make Britain
culpable in the re-enacted 21st century Biafran genocide.
“It is unfair and hypocritical that the British Government will allow
free expression of the wishes of her citizens, while on the other hand
supporting Buhari in his brutal mass-murder of Biafrans who are
exercising their God-given freedom to determine their nationality.
“We believe that the days of slavery are gone and the black race should not be treated as an inferior and expendable race.
“The time has come for BIAFREXIT and Britain must support it.”
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