The Biafra Liberation and Emancipation Movement has called on Igbos<\/p>\n
everywhere in the country to implore self defence mechanisms in view of
\nthreats by some northerners and Niger Delta ex-warlords ahead of the 2015
\ngeneral elections in the country.<\/p>\n
Rising from an expanded assembly held at Zodiac Hotel, Rangers Street,
\nIndependent Layout in Enugu, the group said they were compelled after
\nobserving deliberations of the Niger Delta ex-ward held at Yenegoa which
\ndiscussed very important issues bordering on the survival of our democracy
\nand continual co-existence as a nation to hold an emergency session where
\nit was unanimously agreed that members should rise to adopt,endorse and
\nuphold the self defense strategies being implored by the freedom fighters
\nin the creek to protect President Goodluck Jonathan and their resources.<\/p>\n
The movement said it is only wise for an average Igboman and his
\nproperties who have been the principal target of every form of
\nethno-religious crisis in Nigeria to take cautions to avoid unnecesary
\nlost of lives and properties ahead of threats by some neo-feudalists to
\nseize power through the back door.<\/p>\n
They stated that while its deliberations was still ongoing, the news came
\nagain from Minna in north central Nigeria that campaign vehicles of
\nPresident Goodluck Jonathan were on fire, an action which they view as a
\npremeditated sinister motive to achieve earlier threats by some highly
\nplaced opposition leaders in the country to form a parrallel government
\nshould one of their own fail to clinch the presidency at all cost.<\/p>\n
According to the President-General of BLEM, Marshal Obumneme Ozoani\u00a0and
\nothers who signed the communique, some neo-feudal warlords have found the
\nAll Progressive Congress and its strongholds as a breeding ground to
\nactualise their evil ambition against the good people of Nigeria and
\ntherefore warned that no more shall the blood of an Igbo used as a
\nsacrifice to satisfy the thirst of an average northerner for violence,
\nstating clearly that the South-east has remained too quite since the end
\nof the civil war to swallow further injustices and maltreatment by other
\nmajority groups in the country who believe in
\nviolence,intimidation,coercion, threats and crude force as a means of
\nacquiring power to preside over the affairs of others in the country.<\/p>\n
The statement further warned that the conspiracy of the north-west and
\nnorth-east 1990 through one Ogah to proclaim and exercise itself as a
\nterritory from Nigeria has crippled into the north central as a launching
\npad for violence against other ethnic minorities and Nigerians are
\nimplored to rise up against these new warlords who are momentarily
\nreacting to their depression, ignorance and frustration to appropriate the
\nresources of this nation to themselves and allies as they have always done
\nin the past.<\/p>\n
“We make bold to unequivocally state after carefully observing, analysing and
\ndeliberating on the resolution of the Niger-Delta ex-warlords to protect its
\ncitizenry and our nascent democracy, the congress wishes to unanimously
\nendorse and uphold all critical resolutions of the Yenegoa convention for
\nself protection and defence of the every Igboman in Nigeria during and
\nafter the 2015 general elections.”<\/p>\n
“The Igbo nation has remained the principal targets of hoodlums during every
\nethno-religious crisis that took place in Nigeria after independence which
\nclearly suggest some conspiracy against the Igbos by north leaders to
\npursue an agenda against our people, we hereby reinstate our commitment to
\nthe growth of Nigeria’s democracy, however would not allow neo-feudalism
\nto ruin our hard earned achievements in the name of winning elections at
\nall cost despite the free democratic landscape being provided by the
\nconstitution for every Nigerian to aspire to the highest office in the
\nland.”<\/p>\n
“We forbid the blood of any Igboman to be spilled during or after the
\nelections and on this premise we call on the northern traditional rulers
\nto call their children to order or equally get ready to confront us as
\nthey continue to draw the battle line,” the statement also added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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