Nnamdi Kanu By Nwafor Sunday The Leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, has faulted the establishment ...
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By Nwafor Sunday
The Leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra,
IPOB, Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, has faulted the establishment of Niger-Delta and
South-South in Nigeria.
In a statement he
sent to Vanguard, through Emma Powerful, the group’s publicity secretary, Kanu
argued that Abia, Cross River, Akwa Ibom are the same people.
He said there is nothing like Niger-Delta or South-South,
noting that only a fool would call him or herself a Niger-Deltan or South-South
person.
Read the full statement below:
Abia, Cross River, Akwa Ibom are the same people
“I want to educate the enemies of Biafra, traitors within
and agents of the Janjaweed Caliphate that there is NOTHING like Niger-Delta or
South South. I maintain that only a fool and a roundly unintelligent one at
that can ever call him or herself a Niger-Deltan or South South person. The
British and their illiterate Fulani house niggers thought they could divide us,
not knowing that what binds all the nations of Biafra is stronger than the hate
they planted amongst us.
“The building blocks of a NATION is commonality of culture
as universally defined and accepted and they don’t come lesser than the revered
EKPE & OKONKO fraternities which bind Bende province in Abia, Efik and
Ibiobio together as one family. Go through the text on the first picture, you
will see that Abiriba ranks alongside other clans in Biafra all the way to
Bakassi peninsular as having the same EKPE culture.
“Abiriba is the umbilical cord that ties Igbos to their
bretheren in Ejeagham, Efik, Ibibio, Annang, Bakassi and all the way to parts
of Ambazonia. Abiriba people of Bende in Abia State is by far the richest clan in Africa per capita and are
the only Igbo group that use ‘ung or ong’ similar to that in Effi’ong or Ob’ong
in their lexicon. Check out the writing on the cultural float in the second
picture below.
“Without prejudice to my fellow Biafrans in Bini that I love
dearly, I want to ask those that carved out South South/Niger-Delta, what are
the tangible cultural ties or affinity between the people of Cross River and
Bini that led to put them together in a geopolitical unit? Because Abia State
has EKPE and OKONKO cults which are bonded to cultures in Cross River &
Akwa Ibom states.
“My question therefore is, on what basis did Fulani
Janjaweed determine who to include in their South South region when clearly the
closest relatives to Cross River and Akwa Ibom is Abia?
However Wikipedia.org has it that; “The Niger Delta is the
delta of the Niger River sitting directly on the Gulf of Guinea on the Atlantic
Ocean in Nigeria. It is typically considered to be located within nine coastal
southern Nigerian states, which include: all six states from the South South
geopolitical zone, one state (Ondo) from South West geopolitical zone and two
states (Abia and Imo) from South East geopolitical zone. Of all the states that
the region covers, only Cross River is not an oil-producing state.
“The Niger Delta is a very densely populated region
sometimes called the Oil Rivers because it was once a major producer of palm
oil. The area was the British Oil Rivers Protectorate from 1885 until 1893,
when it was expanded and became the Niger Coast Protectorate. The delta is a
petroleum-rich region and has been the center of international controversy over
pollution.”
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