Biafra Agitation: Employ The Federal Character- APC Chieftain
Rev Simeon Nwaulu, a chieftain of the All Progressives Congress (APC), has said that a strict adherence to the principles of federal character can quell the storm stirred by the ongoing Biafra agitation.
Nwaulu, the National Coordinator
of Rochas Fan Club, urged the federal
government to strictly adhere to the tenets of the federal character, as a
means to restore peace to the federation.
He proffered the solution on
Wednesday,November 25, at a press conference in Owerri, Imo state.
There in Owerri, Nwaulu noted
that marginalisation has become one of the burning issues in the country that
needs to be addressed for peace to reign.
Therefore, he stressed that a
revisit of the federal character will be a panacea for the agitation of Biafra.
He said: “There is no doubt that
of all the six geo-political zones of Nigeria, the Southeast is the most
marginalised in everything.”
The APC henchman, noted that the
former vice president, Dr Alex Ekwueme, and few others spearheaded the
formation of Peoples Democratic Party(PDP) in 1998, “but shockingly, he was
denied the presidential ticket of the party in 1999, because he was from the
South-East zone. Owelle Rochas Okorocha was denied twice the presidential
ticket in 2003 and 2007 because he was from the South East.
“The resurgence of pro- Biafra
agitators is due to the marginalisation of the people of South-East and the
Federal Government has to urgently address this anomaly if there is to be
progress in the country,” Nwaulu opined.
Meanwhile, a popular prophet in
Imo state has prophesied that Nigeria will be drenched in blood if the federal
government refuses to release the chief agitator for Biafra, Mazi Nnamdi.
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