The Igbo World Assembly, IWA, a diaspora Igbo organisation has called for unity between groups fighting for actualization of Biafra.
IWA says for Biafra to be actualized Ohanaeze Ndigbo, IPOB and all other Biafran group must have to work together.
In a statement by IWA Chairman, Dr. Nwachukwu Anakwenze, Christian Onuorah, Vice Chairman, and Secretary-General, Oliver Nwankwor, the group noted that Igbo’s journey to justice in Nigeria will never be attained by one group alone, irrespective of how well-orchestrated the group may be.
The statement reads partly:
“Let us not diminish our efforts through unfounded insults and innuendoes. Let us not see ourselves as enemies. Let us not participate in the planning of our funerals.”
“The greatest weapon our detractors and their allies have against us has always been their abilities to divide and conquer.”
No group in our journey to justice should trade innuendoes and insults against each other in other to gain viability and or favors from Ndi-Igbo.
We appreciate your respective groups and efforts at attaining the illusive Igbo Agenda.
“We must remember we will not actualise our dreams through in-fighting and by washing our dirty laundry in the public. It is a fact after all, that a house divided against itself cannot stand.
“Let us not discount the efforts of any group. It will be foolhardy to overlook and/or minimise the significance of Ohanaeze and/ or IPOB in their respective efforts at actualisation of the Igbo agenda.
What bonds us is stronger than what strains us. If you make time to listen to the respective group’s agenda, it would leave us to ask ourselves, what is the in-fighting about?
