Biafra Agitation: MASSOB Accuse Buhari

President Muhammdu Buhari has been accused of toying with the Igbos, the accusation was made by the Movement for the Actualization of the Sovereign States of Biafra (MASSOB).

Member of MASSOB protesting in Port Harcourt

The accusation follows a recent claim by Buhari that he is not marginalizing the bloc in anyway.

READ ALSO: Dasukigate: EFCC Makes New Arrest

It is recalled that Buhari had during the presidential media chat denied marginalizing Ndigbo. The president stresed that they hold strategic positions in his cabinet including the petroleum and labour ministries and the governor of the central bank.

MASSOB however, insisted that despite Buhari’s denials, there has been deliberate attempts by the federal government to scheme out Ndigbo in the top echelon of power in Nigeria.

Vanguard reports that MASSOB through its spokesman, Sunny Okereafor, queried the basis of Buhari’s claims of not marginalizing Ndigbo when he ensured that key position in his administration went only to the core north.

“President Buhari’s is being economical with the truth with his claim that Ndigbo are not marginalized in Nigeria. How can Buhari ask who is marginalizing Ndigbo and to what extent? Does he want us to remind him that all the key and strategic position in his administration are being held by the core north? If not that the Constitution guarantees that a ministerial nominee must be appointed from each state, no Igbo man would have been appointed a minister. In Buhari’s Nigeria, there are now certain positions which are no go areas for Ndigbo.

READ ALSO: President Buhari Finally Breaks Silence On Zaria Killings

“We have always said it that Ndigbo have no future in Nigeria and have been made second class citizens in a country that they are major stakeholders. This is why we want Biafra. Biafra is the answer to the marginalization of Ndigbo in Nigeria,” MASSOB opined.

The group insisted that the cries of marginalization of Ndigbo and the struggle to actualize an independent state of Biafra has heightened during Buhari’s administration due to hatred for the Igbo people.

In furtherance of their course, MASSOB has said that the projected independent Biafra state will also include the Niger Delta region of the country. The group stressed that the people of Biafra cannot find peace in Nigeria until they get an independent state.

The post Biafra Agitation: MASSOB Accuse Buhari appeared first on Nigeria News today & Breaking news | Read on NAIJ.COM.

loading...