Press Release

Mboho Mkparawa Ibibio, a thirty-year old socio-cultural organisation of the youth of Ibibio Nationality, the fourth largest tribe in Nigeria, during our June 2017 Central Working Committee meeting extensively reviewed developments past and present in the Nigerian geographical and political landscape and resolved as follow:

1. Mboho Mkparawa Ibibio considers it an affront, an act of extreme provocation and a stretch to the breaking point of the tolerance limits of the Ibibio people for some self-serving individuals in the cloak of Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Movement for Actualization of Sovereign State of Biafra (MASSOB) and indeed any bunch of avaricious persons howsoever called to wake up from an intoxication-induced sleep to hurriedly put out to the public a map of their dream Republic of Biafra.Their utopian republic implicitly conscripted, without any modicum of respect to consult, our own prided land of heritage of Akwa Ibom State as well as those of our blood brothers along the Atlantic Coast of Bayelsa, Cross River, Delta and and Rivers States.

2.We wish to remind the concerned Igbos that this senseless arrogance and callous disrespect for the Ibibio person, an endemic and pathological trait of their extraction has been at the core of the differences of our two nationalities. And so as it was in the first republic, so it is now and so shall it be in times to come. Ibibio has nothing in common with Igbo. To wit we differ in ancestry, culture, beliefs, character traits, language, food, names, dressing and all.

3.If the central issue militating against the viability of present day Nigeria is incurable and irreconcilable anthropological heterogeneity then it would tantamount to a generational amnesia and insanity for us to contemplate re-constructing a similar monstrous edifice on quick sand in the South East and South South regions of Nigeria when a structure on such poor foundation, or no foundation at all, is sure to collapse in no time, especially given our not-too distant experience in events and circumstances of the last civil war.

4.If the Igbos will be honestly desirous, sincerely determined and eventually successful in breaking away from Nigeria we the Ibibio people in Akwa Ibom and Cross River States will be totally indifferent and will only be here to bid them fare-well.
As a distinct and independent-minded people of over seven million in population we will continue to weigh our options in the Nigerian chase board and make the right moves the way we want it, in the direction we want, at the time we want and will partner with whomever we want to, if we must partner with anyone, to serve our best interest.

5.The reaction from the 16 Arewa Youth Organisations of Northern Nigeria as published on June 6, 2017 giving three months notice till October 01, 2017 to Igbos residing in the 19 States of Northern Nigeria to vacate that region and calling on Northerners residing in the South East to do likewise was unfortunate though not surprising. Unfortunate because the persistent and hitherto suppressed call for restructuring of Nigeria is heating up to the boiling point as long foretold by observers within and without Nigeria, lending credence to the famous statement by John F. Kennedy that those who make peaceful revolution impossible make violent revolution inevitable. Unfortunate again because the high levels of ignorance and illiteracy amongst the populace in the country leave many Nigerians incapable of discerning who is an Igbo person and who is not, when and if the bubble bursts.

6. We therefore call on Northern Nigeria opinion leaders, elders, religious and political leaders and indeed the Federal Government to do the needful in reining in this mindless radicalism from their youth. Mboho Mkparawa Ibibio would like to remind the northern Nigerians that no one, youth or elders, in the country has monopoly of violence and that the lives and legitimately acquired property of the Ibibio person means the world to us. Therefore no harm must befall them wherever they have chosen to live in Nigeria and indeed anywhere on the surface of the earth. Mboho Mkparawa Ibibio believes and will ensure that the Ibibio people exact pound for pound, flesh for flesh and life for life if necessary.

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Wait, except my eyes deceive me, he just said Ibibio is the fourth largest ethnic group in Nigeria.

So those contesting for fourth are now 3 (Tiv, Ijaws and Ibibio)

You people will be alright las las

It's dissapointing that people are still making reference to an old map.

I have tire. They should just do this referendum and let every tribe speak up instead of all this side talk.

However, I like the fact that there's a growing united south against the northern dictatorial tendencies. Even if we don't end up together in the end.

biafrans are confused group of demented low life people tryin to draw south south into dia fraud called biafra in order to loot dia oil.

Kestolove:
biafrans are confused group of demented low life people tryin to draw south south into dia fraud called biafra in order to loot dia oil.

I thought the oil belong to the federal government when Buhari was trying to use force to control them.

Biafra matter has made you change mouth that it is their oil.

Ewedu.

We dine with them with a long spoon, please don't ask me the tribe...any tribe that is so arrogant and commits lots of kidnapping, defrauding, counterfeiting, baby factory etc that's the tribe.

We need an Ibibio nation joor...

introducing themselves as 33yrs old bla bla bla..

how e take concern IPoB..

oga make you speak for yoursef and family..
una come late.. show say una no exist for anywhere.

imagine since..where una dey abi na now una dey hear Biafra?

even claiming 4th.. go tell person say una no serious..

na for biafra..all of una go show muscle.

wannabes..

Afons..oya make una come sing hallelujah..

ana edegheri..

Mynd44:
Wait, except my eyes deceive me, he just said Ibibio is the fourth largest ethnic group in Nigeria.

So those contesting for fourth are now 3 (Tiv, Ijaws and Ibibio)

You people will be alright las las

The I ibibio has always been the 4th largest ethnic group right from colonial times. Their docility made the Ijaws start laying claim to that position.

Na them sabi, make everybody just go their way!!!
The union has reached a terminal end.

Mynd44:
Wait, except my eyes deceive me, he just said Ibibio is the fourth largest ethnic group in Nigeria.

So those contesting for fourth are now 3 (Tiv, Ijaws and Ibibio)

You people will be alright las las

that's true! ibibio is fourth while Efik is fifth, that's history.

BlackMbakara1:
We dine with them with a long spoon, please don't ask me the tribe...any tribe that is so arrogant and commits lots of kidnapping, defrauding, counterfeiting, baby factory etc that's the tribe.

We need an Ibibio nation joor...

This is true, it is only the ibibio man that can't be deceived by an igbo man LoL, so you know what's up?

Nobody wants to associate why?