…Says Ndigbo Should Review Strategy In Seeking Self-Determination
Chief Chekwas Okorie, National Chairman of Igbo Agenda Dialogue (IAD), has urged Ndigbo to change strategy, tactics, and methodology in seeking self-determination, freedom, and a place of pride in Nigeria, stressing that it’s imperative for anybody advocating for Nnamdi Kanu’s release to encourage Igbo participation in the 2027 general elections.
The pioneer national chairman of the All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA) stated this in a statement yesterday, he titled “Special Appeal To All Freedom Fighters And Biafran Agitators.” He noted that the Ndigbo should deploy their population to regain their respect in Nigeria and secure what is due to them in the Federation without firing a shot.
He said, “In about four months, Nigerians will be going to the polls to elect a new set of leaders and representatives at all levels in a general election. This democratic exercise happens once every four years in Nigeria.
“God has given us a large population and an outstanding geographical spread in Nigeria. “There’s no state in Nigeria that the Igbo people cannot muster at least twenty-five percent of the voting population. Similarly, Igbo people constitute the second largest population by ethnicity in thirty-one states, and the FCT, and ninety-nine percent of the population in the Southeast geopolitical zone.
“In the Nigerian democracy, population and spread are the most potent forces for political power and relevance. When effectively deployed, we’ll regain our respect in Nigeria and secure what is due to us in the Federation without firing a shot.”
He urged Ndigbo to deploy the advantage the Almighty God has so graciously granted them and make a resounding political statement and secure the unconditional release of their son, Mazi Nnamdi Kanu and his colleagues without having to kow-tow to anybody that’ll ridicule and insult them in the process.
He added, “There’s nobody or groups who genuinely wish to see Mazi Nnamdi Kanu free in the near future that’ll be a party to any plot to dissuade our people from actively and massively participating in the 2027 general election.
“I appeal to Igbo people in the diaspora to make a point of using their telephones and all available social media platforms to reach out to their friends, relations, and beneficiaries in Nigeria to file out on election days to exercise their franchise in the interest of all of us.”
According to him, the General of the People’s Army, Dim Chukwuemeka Odumegwu-Ojukwu, led the Biafra Armed Forces to successfully resist the war of annihilation waged against the people of Biafra (1967-1970). He noted that the resumed struggle for a separate state of Biafra has been pursued in several ways by multiple groups from 1999, when MASSOB first emerged, to 2012, when IPOB took center stage under the leadership of Onyendu Mazi Nnamdi Kanu.
Okorie added, “There are many other groups that sprang up along the line with similar objectives for approximately 27 years. “I don’t want to belabor the fact of the collateral damage and economic costs of this adventure.
“I only wish to point out that the time to review the strategy, tactics and methodology in seeking our quest for self-determination, freedom, and place of pride in Nigeria has come.”
“As recently as Monday, 14th September 2026, the leaders of Scotland, Northern Ireland, and Welsh met to formulate a joint initiative to exit from the United Kingdom. In the same token, some geopolitical or regional zones in Nigeria may take similar concerted initiatives to redraw the political map of Nigeria at the fullness of time without violence.”
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