You can’t have Biafra and presidency at the same time, ACF spokesman tells Igbo

Anthony Sani, secretary-general of Arewa Consultative Forum (ACF), says the Igbo community cannot pursue their agitation for Biafra and presidency at the same time.

Sani said this while reacting to an article on the advice of Isa Funtua, an associate of President Muhammadu Buhari, gave to the south-east on its aspiration for the number one seat in the land.

Funtua had asked the Igbo to review their ways of playing politics in order to get the presidency. This had generated different reactions.

But Sani said Nigerians would be too scared to entrust the Igbo with the presidency in 2023 if “they are seen to also be agitating for secession from the federation”.

He described the Igbo as suffering from “superiority and inferiority complexes”, accusing them of playing both victim and also having a sense of entitlement.

“When I read a letter by one Frederick Nwabufo on page 18 of The Nation newspaper under the caption “Isa Funtua, Igbo and 2023 presidency” in which the author berated Isa Funtua of being an arrogant man who suffers from a sense of entitlement, I wonder the wisdom,” Sani said.

“As far as I am concerned, it is Igbo who is obsessed with a sense of entitlement by their insistence that it is their turn to produce the president in a country which boasts of over 250 ethnic nationalities. Igbos suffer from both superiority and inferiority complexes.

“At one point, they tout their superiority by claiming to be over and above any other nationality in Nigeria because they are better at the use of their superior commercial acumen for trade.

“At another, they play the victim by crying of marginalization the most. Power in a multi-party democracy is never secured through threats and intimidation, nor is it obtained by jeremiads out of pity.

“This is because democracy is a contest of ideas and reason and is never a bullfight.

“Igbos cannot agitate for separation and hanker for president by still expecting the country would not be scared of voting them for the presidency.

“Igbos may wish to recall that Senator McCain lost the elections because he had [Mrs Palin] who was governor of the state of Alaska. This was also because her husband was accused of attending a meeting of separatists who wish the state of Alaska to leave [the] USA and join Russia.

“I do not see how somebody from Scotland, Catalan, Quebec, Aceh or Xinjiang could dream of being voted president of their countries. Reason: Such a person would most likely play Gorbachev.

“So when Isa Funtua says Igbo should belong, he meant “belong to where the majority [is]”. That is to say, Igbo must develop their winning game plan by reaching out to build bridges and break barriers.

“The North does not comprise the caliphate alone but is very diverse. In fact, the caliphate today is not ruled by the ruling party.”

mrvitalis:
Who is the north to tell Igbo's what to do

Afamed:

But you know, you can't have Biafra, President of the federal Republic of Nigeria, Lefeledum, Restructuring all in one agenda.

NimrodEndOfDays:
Then organise a referendum. You will get your answer.

mrvitalis:
Who is the north to tell Igbo's what to do

Bazamfare:
Hahaha the same north una second class citizens are begging to support ur presidency

Bazamfare:
Hahaha the same north una second class citizens are begging to support ur presidency

Afamed:

But you know, you can't have Biafra, President of the federal Republic of Nigeria, Lefeledum, Restructuring all in one agenda.

mrvitalis:

Igbo's our main aim has been a restructured Nigeria ...if that won't work then Biafra

Afamed:

I have no such power not even Mr President has such power to call for lefeledum

However, Abaribe , Theophilus Orji and others are in the senate, kindly instruct them to call for lefeledum. That's the simple legal way

NimrodEndOfDays:
Then organise a referendum. You will get your answer.

Afamed:

I have no such power not even Mr President has such power to call for lefeledum

However, Abaribe , Theophilus Orji and others are in the senate, kindly instruct them to call for lefeledum. That's the simple legal way

Area4Area:
Go and organise your referendum yourself and don't depend on anyone to do it for you

NimrodEndOfDays:
And those 3 people would do what exactly? Stop making me feel you are not intelligent

NimrodEndOfDays:
You have come with your low I.Q statement

gidgiddy:


Well I assure you that the core North will never allow any country that they are part of to be restructured. Restructuring will take away political power from North forever

Afamed:

Keep quiet he has rightly told you , the position of the law regards referendum. Referendum is opinions of people and their representatives on the floor of Senate. You can't expect Mr President who's a Northern , to promote opinions of others whom he has no ideas of and whom he he has not been appointed to represent.

Afamed:

Stop making your ignorance fashionable. Its the section / or region that craves for lefeledum representatives on the floor of the senate that will call for it. That's the position of the law.

ZombieTERROR:
And who are you to tell others to choose?


The owner of the country
Or the region that lays the Golden Egg?