Before
I will outline the 4 important main benefits of Biafra boycotting the
2019 presidential general election, let me first correct the notion
by the proponents of PVC and to those instigating fear or arguing
that boycotting the presidential election will cause more harm than
good to the people of Biafra.
First
we have been voting for the past 50 years, what have we benefited
from our past vote other than renewing and recycling the same
politicians without them offering us the basic benefits such as an
affordable health insurance/social security, 24 hours electricity,
Job creation, good roads and clean water. Which are the basic and
easiest thing any government supposed to offer to its citizens.
So
the question I want to ask to the proponents of PVC and voting
campaigners are; Has any of the past and present government met any
of the over mentioned basic needs to the citizens ? Since we have
been voting, have our past voting corrected the economic blockage in
Biafra land? The answer is no. Have our past voting stopped the
customs, police and military road exploitation and blockage in Biafra
land? The answer is still no. Have our past voting created job for
the youths or bridged the infrastructural decay in our
land? The answer is no. So what/why are we rushing to vote the same
group of people with different election promises which they have
never and will never fulfil until we stop voting them to office.
Our
elders says that when the land is bleeding, the red cap chiefs and
kings get fats. Those who are asking you to come out to vote are the
beneficiary of our miseries. They are those who gets fat while we are
suffering. My appeal is simple, lets try something new and see the
results. And if we can collectively boycott the presidential
election, the outcome or the benefits will be tremendous. For
example,
1:
Boycotting the presidential election will give the
international community the impression that Biafra are united and
have made up their mind to leave and govern themselves.
2:
It will give IPOB leadership an international recognition as the
mouthpiece of the people of Biafra because they are in control of the
people and the land. Which means that as soon as IPOB forms a
legitimate government in exile, countries can now negotiate with
IPOB's leadership without having any doubt because the Biafra people
have collectively chosen their leaders and their
representatives. And don't forget that the reason why
countries are to skeptical about coming out to support Biafra
agitation openly was because they don't want to lose their
interest in Nigeria. So when they have found out that Biafra people
have chosen their leaders or when they have found out that IPOB has a
legitimate government in exile, it will be easy for their
representatives to work directly with the Biafra government in exile
because their interest is within Biafra land.
3:
It will also correct the impressions the politicians from the Biafra
land has that they do not need Biafra people to win an election. If
you all will agree with me that the reason why politicians from the
Biafra land do not value our people is/was because they believe that
they only need the Northerners to win an election and that the North
are more important to them than their people because
the Northern cabal will always rig an election in their
favor without understanding that you can only rig an election if the
people participated.
4:
Boycotting the presidential election will minimizes the
number of killings and injustice mated on the people of
Biafra in a daily basis because after the boycott, the Nigeria
government and politicians will adjust to their evil ways. Knowing
too well that it is no longer business as usual due to they need
your vote to be where they are today. That is why, they often spent 3
years in Abuja and immediately election is approaching, you will see
them eating with you. Belief me you, if all Nigeria will boycott
the presidential election, their life will change for good
because it will send a serious signals to
the government that the people are angry with their
leadership. Then you will see that no government will want to hold
your salary or do anything that will make you to stop voting.
I
used to belong to the groups that beliefs that the only way
to achieve Biafra is through war until Mazi Nnamdi Kanu
changed that my views. And If you all will agree with me that the
reason why most people had joined IPOB, was based on Mazi Nnamdi
Kanu's initial slogans “ Biafra or Death”. Which most people
misunderstood the slogans because they thought that there will be war
immediately and were disappointed when such did not happen. That was
why many members of IPOB left. But I think there is the need to have
an adequate preparation to withstand war before
rushing into war to avoid making mistake that will spell doom to
everyone.
Understand
one thing about me, I'm an amateur writer and I'm not writing for
benefits or to survive through blogging. I know how to convert my
writing to be a money making blog but that's not my interest now
because my interest is just to use my blog's platform to air my views
and frustration for people who mistakenly read my blog will know what
I belief in. And I'm not following Nnamdi Kanu because I agree with
all his ideas or views. He is a smart man and he has a fantastic
ideas but his Liberal Ideology is what I cannot buy in because I'm a
realists. I'm only following him for no reason order than that he has
the interest of the people of Biafra at heart. And he has won my
support the moment he was in prison and left without compromising
because he has an opportunity to compromise and belong to the Nigeria
ruling class to become a multibillionaire.
You
must understand this about me, I'm not praising him for any interest
or to seek for his recognition or to be part of IPOB governing body
because I was once offered the opportunity to be the local government
chairman in my state by a powerful politician from my area but I
turned it down and the person he picked, won the election. Off which
had it been that I indicated interest, he would have made me the
chairman and my political career would have skyrocketed by now. But
due to I'm not interest in holding any political office, I turned his
offer down. And I have been living in Europe for the past 14 years,
and I don't belong to the groups that are suffering in Europe.
My
lifestyle is very simple, if you do good, I will praise you but the
moment you started misbehaving, I will criticise you
immediately. I don't belong to the groups that believe that they need
so much money in their bank account. The best gift anyone can give to
his chilren is education not stocking money in a bank for them to
misuse it. I was once made a juicy offer by one of the UBS manager in
Switzerland, I turned it down because to me, it was
a fraudulent deal. So you cannot buy me out with money. The
reason everyone are suffering in Nigeria is because people values
money than their conscious. That is why we are suffering in the hands
of the politicians and the politicians are acting based on our
weaknesses because 80% of our problem was directly and indirectly
caused by us.
The views expressed on this article are solely the authors opinion and I take the responsibility of what I have said here and it might differ with your own views or opinion which is understandable.
Written By
P.
O Iwuama, (Bc)
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