A prominent Igbo politician and member of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Chief Sam Nkire, has described those who are encouraging Igbo people to seek for a new nation by seceding from Nigeria as their enemies who want their economy to be destroyed.
The Igbo chief who was reacting to Professor Wole Soyinka who was said to have declared support for the resurrection of the Republic of Biafra, said that it was only a way of fanning the embers of discord in Igboland.
Nkire. who is a member of the Board of Trustees of the APC, said in Abuja that only those who want Igboland’s economy destroyed would encourage Igbos to go on fighting for secession from Nigeria.
He said that he was disappointed to read that the highly respected Nobel Laureate could at this tensed period of Nigeria’s existence be “lending his leperous hand in the affairs of Igbo people in other to lead them to destruction”.
The APC BoT member said that he was aware that even the Yoruba tribe has had its own unfulfilled dreams since the creation of Nigeria, but has never gone to war.
He therefore advised Professor Soyinka to switch his support for Biafra to the Republic of Oduduwa if he really means well.
Nkire further said no amount of incitement would make the Igbos go to war again for the sake of Biafra, adding that Igbos would remain in Nigeria and negotiate their way to power.
According to the APC chieftain, Igbos were wise enough to know those who wish them well and those envious of their industry and prosperity, adding that anyone who tries to incite Igbos at this point in time only wishes to see the zone return to being a theatre of war. [myad]
