IPOB Press Release
February 24 2025 | IPOB
Following the rumours that the Nigeria Government and the National Assembly proposed to create additional 31 new States in Nigeria, we the global family and movement of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB)worldwide wish to categorically state that Biafrans do not want creation of new States. Instead of multiplying economically bankrupt states, the unworkable Nigerian unity should be dissolved.
IPOB movement is against the creation of new states because the existing states are bankrupt and not functioning properly. Creating more states is tantamount to creating more confusion, disunity, and insecurity. Nigerians are suffering because of the faulty foundations of the Nigerian state and the unsurmountable corruption in the Nigerian government. Nigerian politicians are deep to their necks in corruption. Corruption has eaten into every fabric of the Nigerian society.
Hence, no amount of multiplication of States and Security Agencies will solve Nigerians’ monumental corruption, insecurity, and other problems. Nigeria is a country founded on fraud, sustained in fraud that is incapable of sustaining human and capital development. Any society built on fraud cannot stand. That is why IPOB and other rational indigenous minds in Nigeria are calling for the dissolution of Nigeria.
At their flags Independence given to them by British in 1960, Nigeria had three major regions. Later, the Mid-Western Region was created after a referendum, making it the fourth region. These Regions were progressive and competitive because they enjoyed constitutionally granted autonomy. However, Nigerian’s woes started when a genocidist, “Jack” Gowon and his clueless supreme Military Council created 12 states in order to divide Biafrans and to stop the Biafrans from fighting the war of 1967-1970 in unison.
The decision of Gowon to divide and carve out some ethnic groups from one region to another was the beginning of ethnic tensions in Nigeria today. Such an ethnic bigotry decision destroyed the autonomy of the regions, leading to this useless Federal System that has led to the economic and security woes of the country.
To add salt to injury, a heartless murderer, Murtala Muhammad, created more states and made Nigeria into 19 states, favouring the Northern Region with more states than the south. In the same way, the Fulani Military heads of state like Ibrahim Babangida and Abacha created even more states to continue favouring the Northern region.
Today, the incessant states creation, inspired by the born-to-rule mentality of the Fulanis, has destroyed the progressive regions and has become the useless states that depend on Abuja handouts in the name of allocation sharing to survive. Even if Tinubu’s government creates an additional 100 states, the political equation between the North, West, and East (previous regions) will never be balanced. The previous ethnic bigotry Northern Military leaders has already created unfavourable political equations that are inimical to the unity of Nigeria. Postponing the division of Nigeria is embracing the evil days, which are here now with us.
IPOB says NO to the new States creation proposal that will include the Biafra Region. Our position is clear, we don’t want our region to be balkanised or broken down any further, instead Ndigbo need our Igbo brothers and sisters, villages, clans, and whole regions carved into Kogi, Benue, and Edo states back into Alaigbo. The Nigerian government can create more States to suit them in their Nigeria, while Ndigbo establish an independent state of Biafra. What Ndigbo want is an exit from Nigeria in a peaceful and democratic way. That is why IPOB is calling for a referendum date from the Nigerian government so that Biafrans can decide their fate whether to remain in one delusional united Nigeria or to exit, into an Independent State of Biafra.
COMRADE EMMA POWERFUL, MEDIA, AND PUBLICITY SECRETARY FOR IPOB
Published by:
Chibuike Nebeokike
For: IPOB
