The Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) has opposed renaming the 2nd Niger Bridge after President Muhammadu Buhari.
Emma Powerful, the separatist group’s spokesperson, delivered a statement outlining the group’s viewpoint.
When countless Igbo youths have become victims of state-sponsored terror under the Buhari government, IPOB vows it would never accept it.
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This is despite the fact that the organization proposed that the bridge might be named after other prominent figures in the southeast.
“The global movement and family of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) under the command and leadership of our great leader Mazi Nnamdi Kanu has been drawn to the laughable plan by the Federal Government of Nigeria to name the second Niger Bridge after President Muhammadu Buhari,” the statement said.
“We would want to reaffirm our opposition to naming the second Niger bridge after a guy who came to power and entirely ignored our people.
“Under his watch, security officers have slain our youths with reckless abandon. Terrorists have infiltrated our towns, killing innocent men and women after ruining our fields with their cows, all under his watch.
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“These jihadists have raped our mothers and sisters and spread insecurity across our land. How can a man who supervised all these pains on our people be rewarded with immortalising his name among us?
“IPOB is vehemently opposed to naming the second Niger Bridge after Buhari. The Bridge should rather be called ACHUZIE BRIDGE or other accomplished Igbo Patriots. No Igboman has been named after any big project in the North.”
IPOB further countered a claim by the Minister of Works, Babatunde Fashola that IPOB disturbed the construction of the 2nd Niger Bridge. “This is another lie from the pit of hell. We want to challenge Fashola to substantiate his claims,” the group said.
It quipped, “Did IPOB in any way physical interfere with the construction of the bridge by either directly or indirectly hindering any worker either foreign or local handling the project? Fashola should know that we don’t have his time. He should face his job and not dare us because he is too little to dance to our music.
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“South East has more credible names and more important persons who the federal government can name the second Niger Bridge after.
“We have a galaxy of accomplished Africans like Chief Chinua Achebe the writer of (THINGS FALL APART), Late Chu Okongwu the renowned Economist and a simple man of his time, late Cyprian Ekwensi the author of African Night Entertainment, late Alexander Ekwueme former Vice President of Nigeria, late Chief Michael Okpara former premier of Eastern Region, late Dr. Akanu Ibiam, late Mbonu Ojike, late Chief Kenneth Dike the first Vice-Chancellor of the University of Ibadan, Late Professor Eni Njoku the first Vice-Chancellor of University of Lagos, late Dora Akunyili, late Dee Sam. O Mbakwe, late Achuzie, late Phillips Efiong and the living legend Chief Amaechi Mbazuruike.
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“All these names mentioned above are eminently qualified for the second Niger Bridge to be named after them. The Second Niger Bridge has been awarded since 1979 by the Shehu Shagari regime and since then no administration found it worthy to execute it but IPOB agitation for self-determination pushed this APC administration to reluctantly embark on its construction using the funds past Nigerian politicians looted and starched away in Europe.”
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