Biafra agitation,a product of frustration~ APGA

ALL Progressives Grand Alliance, APGA, has said the continued
agitation for the actualization of Biafra by members of the Indigenous
People of Biafra, IPOB, and Movement for the Actualisation of the
Sovereign State of Biafra, MASSOB, is the result of frustration over
perceived injustices in the country.
IPOB protesters grounding Onitsha, the commercial city of Anambra
State, South-east Nigeria, during their 1 Million March, to call for
the immediate release of their leader, Nnamdi Kanu. Kanu was arrested
by the Department of State Services, DSS, on his way into Nigeria from
UK
Addressing reporters at the NUJ Press Centre, Awka, yesterday, as part
of activities lined up to mark his 60th birthday and 30th anniversary
of his marriage, national chairman of APGA, Chief Victor Oye, claimed
the agitation would definitely cease, once the glaring imbalances and
marginalization against the Igbo were addressed.
He said: "The Igbo man does not believe in destruction. They suffered
so much during the Nigeria civil war and they have not recovered from
effects of that war. They believe in the unity of Nigeria, but the
inequitable distribution of amenities, which is not in their favour,
is what is driving the agitation. Once they are properly recognized
and given a sense of belonging in the country, the whole world will
see that Igbo people love Nigeria.
"If they are given good roads, jobs and treated fairly and equitably
in the distribution of appointments, there would not be any agitation
and this is certain. When the people drive on the dilapidated Onitsha
– Enugu road, Oba – Nnewi – Okigwe road, Aba – Port Harcourt road,
Owerri – Port Harcourt road, Enugu – Umuahia – Aba road which are all
federal roads and watch the way appointments are being made in the
country, naturally they should be agitated."
Oye also spoke on the much-publicized rift between Governor Willie
Obiano and his predecessor, Mr. Peter Obi, describing it as a figment
of the imagination of some people who did not mean well for Anambra
State.
According to him, the two prominent sons of Anambra State had a
cordial relationship and called on those he described as "busy body
people" to leave them alone in the interest of the state.
He, however, called on former Governor Obi to return to APGA because,
according to him, that was where he rightly belonged.
The APGA chairman said "Obiano and Obi are the same. It is the
political turncoats that are making the situation look as if there is
a rift between them. Obi laid a solid foundation for the development
of the state and Obiano has continued to build the structures. As far
as we are concerned, there is no rift between the two great sons of
this state."
He observed that the former governor, who had since defected to the
Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, was not where he should be, advising
him to return to APGA which he helped to build because that is where
he should be, adding that with PDP bleeding and All Progressives
Congress, APC, suffocating, the choice of the people remained APGA and
urged the people to discard the rumours being peddled on the future of
the party.