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Igbos Won’t Vote In Favour Of Biafra In Referendum ―chief Frank Kokori by bestpunterever: 3:38pm On Jun 11, 2017 |
In an atmosphere of a free and fair referendum on Biafra
Republic, many Igbos will vote against seceding from
Nigeria, Chief Frank Kokori has opined.
Kokori, who’s the former Secretary General of the National
Union of Petroleum and Natural Gas Workers (NUPENG),
disclosed this in an exclusive interview with Tribune Online
in Warri, Delta State.
The septuagenarian said most of the Biafra agitators hardly
knew what they actually wanted for their people.
Besides, the Abacha nightmare in the days of the struggle
for the actualisation of June 12, 1993 presidential election,
asserted that Biafra was a mirage because the South East
zone is landlocked.
He noted that being the most successful commercial
people, the Igbos will lose more if they broke away from
the country, adding that they own the choicest properties in
major cities in the country.
Kokori debunked the allegation that only Igbos were being
marginalised, saying every tribe and zone in the country
experiences marginalisation one way or another, especially
in the area of hunger and poverty.
According to the fiery activist, who spent four years in
prison over agitation for June 12, the most marginalised
people are actually the northerners because of squalor and
mortgaged future by their elites.
This, he argued, is evident in the high rate of beggars
among the northerners as against barely any among Igbos
and a few amongst Yorubas across the country.
“The Biafra agitation is being handled by people who do not
even know what they want.
“I for one know that if you allow all the Igbos in this country
to go into a free and fair referendum, they won’t vote that
Biafra should leave Nigeria.
“Igbos will lose more. Their land is a landlocked zone of the
country, but they are the most successful commercial
people across the country.
“Go to Abuja, Lagos, Kano, PortHarcourt, everywhere, they
own most of the choice properties.
“Even here in Warri, they own properties. What can they do
in their landlocked zone?
“You see, it’s just that the young people there don’t know.
You see, everybody felt marginalised not only the Igbos.
“Because if you don’t have a good job, you don’t have food
to eat, you don’t have medical facilities, you’re purely
marginalised.
“Who are the most marginalised people, they are the
northerners! They are so poor and a few of their elites loot
everything from them.
“The average Igbo man and Yoruba man lives better than
the average northern Nigerian. Check it. You don’t see an
Igbo man begging on the streets.
“Yorubas are very few begging on the streets. Every other
person, except the rich, in the north begs.
“What we need do is to build a good country of justice and
equity.
“We can’t keep talking of breaking up. Why did America
fight their civil war? They won’t allow one state to break
away.
“California and Texas are 10 times bigger and richer than
Nigeria. They won’t allow them to break away.
“They give them some freedom and the wealth is being
properly distributed,” Kokori noted.
He accused the elites in the South South, where he hails
from, four impoverishing their people in spite of
stupendous derivation funds given to the region.
“Look at the 13 per cent they give our people in the South
South, do they manage it well? They steal almost 80 per
cent of the money. They don’t do anything with it.
They deliberately leave the people in abject poverty, but
the elite have fat bank accounts in Europe and elsewhere.
That’s why I said some of us are disillusioned and
depressed with what’s happening in the country.
But we still have hope. We know what we’ve passed through
in the past,” he disclosed.
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Re: Igbos Won’t Vote In Favour Of Biafra In Referendum ―chief Frank Kokori by FieryJustice(m): 3:39pm On Jun 11, 2017 |
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Re: Igbos Won’t Vote In Favour Of Biafra In Referendum ―chief Frank Kokori by whitebeard(m): 3:39pm On Jun 11, 2017 |
Noooooooooo pls Igbo I beg u pls go, they have insulted us too much, they called our dear nation a zoo, how can they not know all this yet they say they are the most intelligent human race. They have decided to leave pls let them go, later they would say Nigerian government is wicked, we want to kill them with tax, abeg who send them to Biafra, we tried to convince them to stay but they called us unity beggars...!! 3 Likes |
Re: Igbos Won’t Vote In Favour Of Biafra In Referendum ―chief Frank Kokori by ApolitiCal: 3:42pm On Jun 11, 2017 |
Igbos must go 2 Likes |
Re: Igbos Won’t Vote In Favour Of Biafra In Referendum ―chief Frank Kokori by babablogger: 3:43pm On Jun 11, 2017 |
Check out reasons I will hate Nigeria if I wasn't Nigerian http://www.babasalami.com/2017/06/reasons-i-will-hate-nigeria-if-i-wasnt.html |
Re: Igbos Won’t Vote In Favour Of Biafra In Referendum ―chief Frank Kokori by Mynd44: 3:43pm On Jun 11, 2017 |
Re: Igbos Won’t Vote In Favour Of Biafra In Referendum ―chief Frank Kokori by boboLIL(m): 3:45pm On Jun 11, 2017 |
whitebeard: ApolitiCal: whitebeard:allow us to go.. 1 Like |
Re: Igbos Won’t Vote In Favour Of Biafra In Referendum ―chief Frank Kokori by 0b100100111: 3:45pm On Jun 11, 2017 |
They must vote in Favour! There is no to way about it cos it they don't, it will spell a collateral doom for there continued existence with Nigeria 1 Like |
Re: Igbos Won’t Vote In Favour Of Biafra In Referendum ―chief Frank Kokori by whitebeard(m): 3:48pm On Jun 11, 2017 |
babablogger:I don't need your reason, it natural for Igbo to hate Nigeria primarily for no reason, secondarily because his fellow Igbo's do, and tertiarily he finds useless reason to..!! Abeg be going but pls promise us u would treat Nigeria has a foreign country, and would bear whatever tax u guys have to pay to do business in Nigeria.. |
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