IPOB Declares Solidarity With Hausa, Other Northern Ethnic Groups

The Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) has declared solidarity with the Hausa individuals and different ethnic nationalities in northern Nigeria, saying their aspirations for freedom, justice and self-determination will not be incompatible with the Biafran wrestle.

The group stated its place adopted a reported solidarity declaration by northern youths and the Northern Nigeria Rescue Movement (NNRM), which it welcomed as an indication of rising political consciousness amongst individuals searching for an finish to what it described as oppression and injustice.

In a press release issued on Friday by its Media and Publicity Secretary, Comrade Emma Powerful, on the directive of its Directorate of State (DOS), IPOB stated its chief, Nnamdi Kanu, had persistently maintained that the pursuit of freedom by one group shouldn’t be interpreted as hostility in direction of one other.

“Onyendu’s message is clear, consistent, and universal: the pursuit of freedom for one people must never be interpreted as hatred for another,” the assertion stated.

The group stated it rejected makes an attempt to use ethnic id, non secular variations and regional divisions to create hostility amongst Nigerians with frequent aspirations for dignity, freedom and justice.

IPOB additionally rejected what it described as makes an attempt to painting Kanu as hostile to northern ethnic nationalities, arguing that such claims have been supposed to divide oppressed communities and protect the present political construction.

According to the group, Kanu had persistently spoken in his Radio Biafra broadcasts in regards to the want for the Hausa individuals to regain their political company, cultural confidence and historic dignity.

“His message has never needed to be reduced to hostility between ethnic nationalities,” IPOB stated, including that the liberty of Biafrans and the emancipation of the Hausa nation weren’t mutually unique aspirations.

“The freedom of Biafrans and the emancipation of the Hausa nation are not mutually exclusive aspirations. No people should have to remain subordinate for another people to be free,” the assertion added.

The group stated northern youths had demonstrated impartial political judgment by figuring out what it described because the nation’s oppressive political construction, quite than blaming the Igbo individuals for his or her challenges.

IPOB maintained that abnormal residents throughout ethnic and regional traces shared considerations about poverty, injustice and political subjugation.

It additional argued that the appropriate to self-determination ought to lengthen to all indigenous ethnic nationalities, no matter their inhabitants sizes.

Among the teams it listed have been the Hausa, Kanuri, Tiv, Berom, Nupe, Igala, Jukun, Angas, Bachama, Idoma, Zuru, Ebira, Gbagyi, Tangale and Borgu communities.

“Population density does not dictate human dignity,” the assertion stated, including that each ethnic nationality ought to have a voice in figuring out the way it wished to be ruled.

On the best way ahead, IPOB reiterated its assist for a peaceable, internationally supervised referendum as a democratic technique of permitting individuals to find out their political futures.

The group stated such a course of may additionally permit smaller ethnic nationalities to barter voluntary alliances, federations or regional governance preparations that defend their pursuits.

It referenced the 2014 National Conference convened beneath former President Goodluck Jonathan, citing its proposals on restructuring and regional autonomy as rules that might inform discussions about different governance preparations.

IPOB additionally invoked former President Olusegun Obasanjo’s criticism of imported governance fashions, arguing that African international locations ought to develop political methods suited to their circumstances.

The group referred to as on different ethnic nationalities throughout Nigeria to rethink their positions on self-determination and what it described because the nation’s current political association.

It stated it remained dedicated to working alongside different communities pursuing what it described as real liberation, peace and mutual respect.

“Freedom is the most precious gift Almighty God gave to humanity, and no human being or artificial colonial arrangement should deny any people that right,” the assertion stated.