A chieftain of the All Progressives Congress
(APC) in the South East, Chief Austin Edeze said Biafra can still be achieved
through non-violence as opposed to the tension and crisis caused in the region
by agitators of independent state of Biafra.
Edeze, in an interview with Daily Sun noted that there was
nothing wrong in agitating for freedom, but, urged the Independent
Peoples of Biafra (IPOB), Movement for the Actualisation of Sovereign State of
Biafra (MASSOB), the Biafra Independent Movement (BIM) and other pro-Biafra
groups to eschew violence and follow the path of dialogue including mobilising
for referendum. The APC Board of Trustees (BoT) member reasoned that
Ndigbo had fought war before and made enormous sacrifice in the Nigeria
project; hence, would instead “seek self-determination through peaceful means
instead of war.
“For you to declare yourself a sovereign state in an
existing sovereign state amounts to treason. So, there are other ways of
achieving this same interest of Biafra we are pursuing illegitimately.
Illegitimate because declaring sovereignty in a country that is a sovereign
nation, is not the best way to go about it.”
“Biafra is something that has to be discussed; we had done
it by war and it didn’t work, we can also do it by dialogue…”
“It’s not necessary the way innocent persons are being
killed in Aba, Owerri, Asaba, Onitsha and other places in the agitation for
Biafra. Will Asaba, Aba, Onitsha and Owerri give us Biafra? It has to be
dialogued; it has to be discussed. Some other nations of the world had done it
through dialogue, referendum and it worked out.”
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