2015: Defend Yourself, Biafran Group Tells Igbos

The Biafra Liberation and Emancipation Movement has called on Igbos

everywhere in the country to implore self defence mechanisms in view of
threats by some northerners and Niger Delta ex-warlords ahead of the 2015
general elections in the country.

Rising from an expanded assembly held at Zodiac Hotel, Rangers Street,
Independent Layout in Enugu, the group said they were compelled after
observing deliberations of the Niger Delta ex-ward held at Yenegoa which
discussed very important issues bordering on the survival of our democracy
and continual co-existence as a nation to hold an emergency session where
it was unanimously agreed that members should rise to adopt,endorse and
uphold the self defense strategies being implored by the freedom fighters
in the creek to protect President Goodluck Jonathan and their resources.

The movement said it is only wise for an average Igboman and his
properties who have been the principal target of every form of
ethno-religious crisis in Nigeria to take cautions to avoid unnecesary
lost of lives and properties ahead of threats by some neo-feudalists to
seize power through the back door.

They stated that while its deliberations was still ongoing, the news came
again from Minna in north central Nigeria that campaign vehicles of
President Goodluck Jonathan were on fire, an action which they view as a
premeditated sinister motive to achieve earlier threats by some highly
placed opposition leaders in the country to form a parrallel government
should one of their own fail to clinch the presidency at all cost.

According to the President-General of BLEM, Marshal Obumneme Ozoani and
others who signed the communique, some neo-feudal warlords have found the
All Progressive Congress and its strongholds as a breeding ground to
actualise their evil ambition against the good people of Nigeria and
therefore warned that no more shall the blood of an Igbo used as a
sacrifice to satisfy the thirst of an average northerner for violence,
stating clearly that the South-east has remained too quite since the end
of the civil war to swallow further injustices and maltreatment by other
majority groups in the country who believe in
violence,intimidation,coercion, threats and crude force as a means of
acquiring power to preside over the affairs of others in the country.

The statement further warned that the conspiracy of the north-west and
north-east 1990 through one Ogah to proclaim and exercise itself as a
territory from Nigeria has crippled into the north central as a launching
pad for violence against other ethnic minorities and Nigerians are
implored to rise up against these new warlords who are momentarily
reacting to their depression, ignorance and frustration to appropriate the
resources of this nation to themselves and allies as they have always done
in the past.

“We make bold to unequivocally state after carefully observing, analysing and
deliberating on the resolution of the Niger-Delta ex-warlords to protect its
citizenry and our nascent democracy, the congress wishes to unanimously
endorse and uphold all critical resolutions of the Yenegoa convention for
self protection and defence of the every Igboman in Nigeria during and
after the 2015 general elections.”

“The Igbo nation has remained the principal targets of hoodlums during every
ethno-religious crisis that took place in Nigeria after independence which
clearly suggest some conspiracy against the Igbos by north leaders to
pursue an agenda against our people, we hereby reinstate our commitment to
the growth of Nigeria’s democracy, however would not allow neo-feudalism
to ruin our hard earned achievements in the name of winning elections at
all cost despite the free democratic landscape being provided by the
constitution for every Nigerian to aspire to the highest office in the
land.”

“We forbid the blood of any Igboman to be spilled during or after the
elections and on this premise we call on the northern traditional rulers
to call their children to order or equally get ready to confront us as
they continue to draw the battle line,” the statement also added.