Biafra: Ohaneze Ndigbo disowns Nnamdi Kanu and his movement

This decision by the Ohaneze was made known to the public the on Friday, November 20, 2015 in Awka, Anambra State.

Director of Radio Biafra, Nnamdi Kanu, might have to restrategise as the apex Igbo socio–cultural organisation, Ohanaeze Ndigbo, has disowned him and members of the Indigenous People Of Biafra.

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This decision by the Ohaneze was made known to the public the on Friday, November 20, 2015 in Awka, Anambra State.

Addressing reporters and the public, the Chairman, Forum of State Presidents of Ohanaeze in the seven Igbo –speaking states, Dr. Chris Eluomunoh, said the socio-cultural organisation cannot support the agitation for a Biafran nation.

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In his words, “You will notice that Ohanaeze has been very silent on the issue of Biafra insurgency, though the youth wing of Ohanaeze has been speaking on it. Ohanaeze, as the Igbo cultural group, cannot support Biafra and we dissociate ourselves from it totally.

'Igbo people have contributed much to the development of Nigeria and we cannot allow some people to jeopardise the lives and efforts of millions of Igbo residing in all parts of Nigeria.

'We believe that anybody who has any issue to settle with the Federal Government should use dialogue and that is why we participated in the last National Conference. No sane Igbo person would want to witness a repeat of the kind of thing that happened during the Civil War.

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'(Chief Odumegwu) Ojukwu, who led the Biafra war, returned to Nigeria from exile and contested elections in Nigeria, which showed that he was fully integrated into Nigeria and was a full-fledged Nigerian before he died,' Eluomunoh said.

However, Eluomunoh said that part of the reasons for the agitation was the dearth of infrastructure in Igbo land and pleaded with President Muhammadu Buhari to address the infrastructural decay in the area.