The Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, has once again
rubbished the recent interview granted by elder statesman, Tanko Yakassai where
he said that the Biafra agitation was annoying and that the oil in the
South-East does not belong to leaders of the group.
The pro-Biafra group said people like Yakassai and other
northern leaders had decided to bury the truth, hence the reason the region
remained backward.
IPOB in a statement jointly signed by its spokesmen, Dr.
Ikenna Chinaka and Mrs Grace Ukpai said the struggle for the birth of the
republic of Biafra cannot be dettered by any northern element, not even any
‘so-called elder statesman like Yakassai’
According to the statement, “We have taken ample time to
dwell on the interview granted by Alhaji Tanko Yakassai and we have most
sufficiently subjected the said interview to the forensic analysis of sapient
extrapolation.
“Our aim is not to ridicule but rather to illuminate the
darkest recesses of the unattainable ambitions of the core North in relation to
Biafra. Let it be said unequivocally that Yakassai’s statements are
inordinately over-ambitious. The points he raised cancelled out each other, so
we see it as being ill-thought out, divergent, and outrightly riotous.
“We members of IPOB Worldwide under the leadership and
supreme command of Mazi Nnamdi Kanu shall in this rebuttal, endeavour to
subject Yakassai’s submissions to the utmost intellectual scrutiny, with a view
to systematically dismantling his misguided utterances he visited upon
unfortunate Nigerians not knowledgeable enough to appreciate the contradictions
inherent in his postulates.”
The statement noted that Yakassai and his northern kinsmen
had decided not to speak the truth again and that it had cost their region more
harm than good.
It added, “We find it a convenient starting point to note
that in Biafraland people of Yakassai’s age, in times gone by, are accorded
great respect for their characteristic wisdom which comes with age. This
elevates such elderly individuals to the rare altitude of ‘sages’. The sapient
judgment and effulgent wisdom usually radiated by people of Yakassai’s age
command immeasurable respect from all and sundry in the by-gone era of truth
and wisdom.
“Unfortunately, this is no longer the case these days as our
elders no longer speak the truth or are too terrified to do so for fear of
upsetting their paymasters. What we have now are old men without honour nor
conscience. Elderly men who shouldn’t be afraid to speak the truth are now
afraid to stand up to speak the truth and damn the consequences.
“Sufficient to note that we shall not allow ourselves to be
drawn into the fray of rants with which Yakassai corrupted the interview he
granted. Such use of avoidable gutter language like his reference to
‘irritants’, have most shamefully grounded and graded him among the street
urchins, scallywags and rapscallions of the North, despite his age.
“We earlier observed that the entire landscape of his
interview was riddled with self-contradictions. We now shall proceed to deploy
our fine tooth comb in sifting out the chaff from the grain.”
The group vowed that it was ready to fight on until the
birth of Biafra became a reality.
“The question might then be asked, what is Kanu and his
followers saying? Our answer is very simple. In view of the decadent values,
collapsed infrastructure, visionless, massively corrosive, endemically corrupt,
retrogressive and directionless leadership prevalent in Nigeria today; where
destructive tribalism, ethnic jingoism, religious extremism, uncaged state
sponsored marauding terrorists in Fulani herdsmen prowling the land freely,
unending terror campaign by Nigerian Army, Police against innocent law abiding
citizens, weak compromised judiciary, ever depreciating and sinking currency,
overwhelming and galloping inflation, poverty and frustration induced suicides of
citizens, we are poised to restore our nation Biafra, which Yakassai correctly
identified as holding the economic salvation of the entire Africa in the next
fifty to a hundred years. That is what “Kanu and his friends” are saying. What
problem does Elder Yakassai have with this noble ambition, the right of which
he affirmed exists in us,” the statement added.
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