Igbo Group Condemns Umahi’s Statement On Biafra, Alleges Conspiracy With Nigerian Government

By Onelum Okorie

A group of Concerned Citizens of Igbo in the Diaspora, has berated Nigeria’s Minister of Works, Engr. Dave Umahi over his recent statement dismissing the existence of Biafra in the minds of people of Igbo extraction.

In a press statement on Tuesday, Mazi Elias Uzondu and Ebubedike Iwuoha, who are the President and Secretary of the group respectfully, condemned what they called a careless and selfish stance of Umahi by his declaration that there was no need for the continuation of agitation for Biafra Republic.

Engr. Umahi recently said that it was not necessary agitating for the Republic of Biafra as according to him, the Bola Tinubu administration had mainstreamed the Igbos into the development plan of Nigeria.

Reacting to this, the group dismissed Umahi’s position as expression of a selfish Igbo politician always ready to do the bidding of Nigerian government. They have therefore advised people not to take Umahi seriously.

The group wondered what gave the Minister impression that the Tinubu administration meant well for people of the Southeast when the same government ensured the sentencing to life imprisonment of Mazi Nnamdi Kanu on spurious charges whereas people who committed real terrorism, genocide, banditry etc are walking the streets free.

The group posited that asking the Igbos to abandon agitation for self governance under the auspice of Biafra was like asking them to remain imprisoned in a country that would never allow the Igbos to occupy the nation’s number one seat in Aso Rock as the President of Nigeria any day.

They added that Dave Umahi has no mandate to speak on behalf of the Igbos and should therefore not be taken seriously.

They have therefore asked Umahi and his group of selfish Igbo extraction to distance themselves from the Biafra agitation which they believed would surely be realized at the right time.