Biafra can never bite the dust – Ikedife

Previous President General of Ohaneze Ndigbo and the convener of South East Elders Forum, Dr Dozie Ikedife has couldn't help contradicting those adage Biafra ought to be overlooked. 

Ikedife, yesterday, in Nnewi clarified that Biafra is beloved and near the hearts of many individuals of the South East geopolitical zone to be overlooked. As indicated by him, Biafra has turned into a personality for a people and thusly no one can instruct them to overlook their character. 

"These are individuals who met in the South Eastern piece of West Africa in a zone now called Nigeria when the Portuguese adventurers of the fifteenth century came calling amid their investigation of West Africa. Note that in any circumstance, anyone sitting serenely might want existing conditions to be kept up. Then again, anyone not sitting serenely would call for change. This is fundamental. 

"They call for rebuilding. We need to characterize what we are rebuilding, to what degree will it go. Will it be sufficiently far to expel every one of these hints of uneasiness in the framework or will it simply be a spur of the moment easing of the distress? We should comprehend that. What's more, until the disparity, underestimation, uneven circulation of supports, infrastructural improvement, joblessness, financial strengthening, convenience or precise rejection are tended to, at that point the fomentation here and there in this nation will surely not subside," the senior statesman said. 

He demanded that no genuine Biafran would acknowledge to overlook Biafra. As indicated by him, no genuine child of Oduduwa or Arewa, would acknowledge to overlook their personalities. Ikedife was likewise of the conclusion that anyone who advises a gathering of individuals to overlook their character would give a wrong suggestion "presumably in light of wrong recognition or wrong comprehension of what the unsettling is about." 

Ikedife additionally clarified that he had dependably pushed that the issue of realizing self-assurance for the Igbo would be expert through discourse, strategy, peacefulness, legitimate means and working inside the law.