Rivers Leaders Reject Biafra

A body of the Ikwerre ethnic nationality in Rivers State, the Ogbakor Ikwerre, has categorically rejected the leader of the Indigenous Peoples of Biafra (IPOB), Nnamdi Kanu’s demand that Rivers State must be part of Biafra.
Speaking in an interview with The Tide in Port Harcourt, President-General of the Ogbakor Jkwerre Convention Worldwide, Prof Simeon Achinewhu, said the Biafra failed in the past because there were attempts by the former Biafran leader, late Odumegwu Ojukwu, to force unwilling minority groups into Biafra.
Also speaking, the factional President, Ijaw Youth Council (IYC), Eric Omare, asked Kanu to restrict his Biafra agitation to states of the South-East.
Omare said: “The Ijaw nation has said it times without number that the South-South, especially the Ijaws are not part of Biafra territory.”
It would be recalled that Nnamdi Kanu recently paid a visit to the Rivers State capital, Port Harcourt, where he was received by a large number of pro-Biafra supporters.
Addressing the crowd, which was reported to be over three million, Nnamdi Kanu, said there was nothing like one Nigeria, insisting that Biafra is the reward of the people.
He urged his supporters to demand for Biafra now for the benefit of their children and their grand children who have been marginalised by those in Abuja.