50 MESSAGES EXTRACTED FROM WILLIE OBIANO'S SPEECH ON BIAFRA AT 50 EVENT


1. My brothers and sisters, today is a great day in our collective memory.

2. Today, we begin the symbolic effort of casting a long look backwards, beyond the immediate horizon of our national experience, to honour the memories of our loved ones who lost their lives to the various dark chapters of our national history.

3. In doing this, we are guided by our belief that life itself is an unbroken stream of experiences stitched together by memory.

4. Without memory, life assumes the attributes of a futile gaze into the void of time!

5. Now before I go any further, let us observe a moment of silence in honour of our brothers and sisters in whose shadows we stand here today.

6. Umunnem, as is the case with the worldview of other great nations, Memory occupies a pre-eminent place in the Igbo worldview.

7. Our ancestors believed that a people without memory have absolutely no future.

8. To underscore the significance of memory, they handed us the concept of Ncheta ka – “recall is supreme.”

9. They silently nudged us to realize that life presents us with a diversity of experiences and out of this menu are touchstones that should guide us into the future.

10. These wise ancestors also gave us the philosophy of Onye ayana nwanneya – be your brother’s keeper; which has become the philosophy of our great party – APGA.

11. Life’s most enduring experiences are usually shared as a group

12. These experiences, though traumatic sometimes; should strengthen our bonds of brotherhood.

13. History presents us with a long list of ethnicities and nations that have risen through horrific experiences to strengthen their ties of brotherhood and re-affirm their humanity through symbolic events.

14. Our efforts today can be likened to Jewish efforts to honour the memory of the Holocaust as well as the recent efforts to commemorate the Rwandan Genocide in Kigali.

15. In the Jewish example, we see the firm resolve of the world Jewry to ensure that the tragic history of the Holocaust is permanently etched on human memory; that the world never forgets!

16. Many major cities in Europe and America have a Holocaust Memorial; built to perpetuate the memory of about six million Jews that died in the waves of anti-Semitism that swept through the world at the time.

17. Instructively the people of Rwanda have quickly recovered from the genocide that marked the Hutu and Tutsi conflict of the early 90s to build an ambitious economy.

18. They have erected the Kigali Genocide Memorial Centre which opened in April 2004 to perpetuate that memory, renew their pact with their past and solemnly declare to themselves and say – Never Again!

19. Sadly, although we share a similar experience with the Rwandese, our attitude to the memory of that sad experience has lacked boldness and organized response.

20. Umu nnem, we are indeed a remarkable people.

21. However, throughout history, there has always been a prize to pay for greatness.

22. Our natural disposition to seek wealth-creating opportunities in known and unknown places across the world and support the local economy with our famed energy has made us imminent targets of conflicts that we had no hand in fomenting.

23. Happily, our brave spirit has helped us navigate the minefields of this experience.

24. We have become one of the most successful black people in the world.

25. We have set high standards in literature, business, the academia, science, information technology, entertainment and nearly every field of human endeavour.

26. Umu-nnem, we are the owners of a proud history; paved with pain and anguish and watered by the blood of the innocent.

27. Hardly is there a family in this gathering without a story; a story of profound loss.

28. But beside every story of loss sits a story of success; of glory and of abundance.

29. To the glory of God, we are not a people with a SINGLE STORY…

30. We are a proud, intensely driven, hardworking, innovative, adventurous and forward-looking people with more gifts than the world can take!

31. Umu-nnem we are the inheritors of an uncommon valour!


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IpobExposed God Don catch you today. The sit at home order really overwhelmed you.

All I need to know is

Does he stand for or against the restoration of the sovereign state of Biafra

God will continue to grant the fallen heroes eternal rest....at the end Biafra will rise

All these for re-election.
I must commend him tho.

Dalu sir, d only gov that gave our dead heroes a second burial ( akwam'ozu). Today, we have truly shown the world that we are united and our brothers' keeper. Biafra united, kwenu!

Whether He is Antibiafra or pro.... . Having an event to mark this sad day shows allegiance to the Biafra struggle... Because you do not expect Him as an executive Gov to come openly and say.... Am Biafra while a Governor in the Zoo Nation..

#Buhari come and finish your Leadership
#FreeBiafra

HisSexcellency:
All I need to know is

Does he stand for or against the restoration of the sovereign state of Biafra

You expect a sitting governor under Nigeria government to support Biafra??

ZeroUnity:
Whether He is Antibiafra or pro.... . Having an event to mark this sad day shows allegiance to the Biafra struggle... Because you do not expect Him as an executive Gov to come openly and say.... Am Biafra while a Governor in the Zoo Nation..

#Buhari come and finish your Leadership
#FreeBiafra

ONE PERSON WHO HAVE EVER MADE THE REAL POINT......EVER SINCE SUCH QUESTION ABOUT IF IGBO LEADERS ARE SUPPORTING BIAFRA.....THOUGH THE ONES ASKING SUCH QUESTION I CALLED THEM SENSELESS

My condolences to the Relatives of those who lost their lives in the Rwandan Genocide that started in April 1994. A genocide that claimed almost a million lives with majority of the victims from the Tutsi minority.

Buhari reignited Biafra struggle. He was adviced to leave KANU alone but he foolishly acted resulting in a movement that Nigeria is finding difficult to tame.
Biafra independence struggle is upon us once again but we shall not toe the line of sad path of history again.
While we remember today as the day of past heroes, we shall not forget what they lived for and why they died.

Obiano is an unrepentant morron. Obiano, you were there, you heard that unarmed people were being gunned down in your state. Instead of you to rise up as the chief security officer of your state and condemn this broad daylight murder, you went to a Mosque in Onitsha to make sure it wasnt damaged. You cared more for the welfare of a building than you cared about the welfare of people being shot and killed while exercising their right to freedom of expression.

Now you are speaking to Biafrans on their 50th Anniversary? The same Biafrans who lay in hospital with bullet wounds you did not care about?

Shame on you Obiano. If it were not the fact that you belong to the party of our Great Ikemba, you would have been a goner 8n this years elections

adadike281:
Dalu sir, d only gov that gave our dead heroes a second burial ( akwam'ozu). Today, we have truly shown the world that we are united and our brothers' keeper. Biafra united, kwenu!

Chukwu gozie gi ada di mma