IT IS TIME FOR THE MAP OF THE FIRST BIAFRA REPUBLIC TO BE REDRAWN----IT IS TIME FOR IGBO BIAFRA, SOUTH-EAST SELF-DETERMINATION FOR THE REALISATION AND EMANCIPATION OF THE IGBO NATION-STATE WHENEVER POSSIBLE AND IF THE ISSUES OF INJUSTICE AND MARGINALIZATION REMAIN UNRESOLVED

After reviewing the spate of gang-ups against Ndi-Igbo by the rest of Nigeria in recent times, and more importantly, after efforts to get all the former components Nations of Biafra to jointly put hands together to restore the Biafra of 1967-1970-----and most of them are unwilling and presented the images of unwilling partners-----it the conclusion of Igbo-Biafra Nationalists Movement and the Indigenous People of Igbo Nation for Self-Determination that the best way forward is for each of them to go about their separate quest for self-determination. Let Ijaw Biafrans, Efik Biafrans, Ibibio Biafrans, Anang Biafrans, Igbo Biafrans etc, go and aspire for or pursue their own self-determination (whether internal self-determination or external self-determination).

To be realistic, it is time for the map of the first Republic Biafra to be redrawn----it is time for Igbo Biafra self-determination. Our homeland remains the territory of the present South-East states in Nigeria. While it is a verifiable fact that there were Igbo communities uprooted and against their will, made to be part other territories in the South-South and the Middlebelt as a result the obnoxious delineation and illegal gerrymandering of boundaries occasioned by the questionable state creation, it is for these these Igbo communities to decide in a plebiscite or referendum when the time is ripe on whether they will join their Igbo kith and kin in the homeland.

It is time for Igbo Biafra Nationalism/Igbo Biafra self-determination for the emancipation of Igbo Nation-State. If the Igbo Biafrans must make progress, there is no need imposing the Biafra ideology on an unwilling partners. If there is need for alliance in the future, then let it be the "alliance of the willing". The igbo Biafrans must focus on self preservation, and internal coherence while looking outwards.

Uche Mefor is the convenor of the Igbo-Biafra Nationalists Movement and the Indigenous People of Igbo Nation for Self-Determination

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