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BIAFRA: Our Mandate Is Igbo Presidency, Not Biafra – Ohanaeze Ndigbo
The Igbo apex socio-cultural organisation, Ohanaeze Ndigbo, on Tuesday said the Igbo did not mandate it to pursue the actualisation of a Sovereign State of Biafra. A statement which has potentially rescinded the peace brokered between IPOB and Ohanaeze Ndigbo by Former First Republic Aviation Minister, Chief Mbazuluike Amechi in Ukpor, Nnewi South L.G.A Anambra State, on July 14, 2020.
IPOB led by Mazi Nnamdi Kanu has consistently maintained that Biafra’s independence can not be traded for an Igbo Presidency in 2023.
But Ohanaeze Ndigbo said its focus remains on ensuring that the next President of Nigeria comes from the zone.
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Ohaneze said it was not part of the demand for a sovereign state of Biafra.
It maintained that its contract with the Igbo nation was to realise a Nigerian president of Igbo extraction.
The President of Ohanaeze Ndigbo in Anambra State, Chief Damian Okeke-Ogene, stated this at the end of the groups’ meeting in Awka, the state capital.
“We are pursuing Igbo presidency because the executive of Ohanaeze, led by Chief Nnia Nwodo, has the mandate of Ndigbo to negotiate the Igbo position in Nigeria.
“He wasn’t given a mandate for the Sovereign State of Biafra. That’s why we are saying, give us what is due for us, and Nigeria’s president of Igbo extraction is what we are looking for,” a report by Punch quoted him to have said.
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