Uche-Mefor calls for re-drawing of old Biafra map, says no need forcing unwilling partners

Director of Communication of Biafra Defacto Customary Government, Mazi Uche-Mefor, has called for the redrawing of old Biafra map as this will enable the different components that makes up the defunct Biafra Republic to pursue their emancipation differently.

Mefor in a statement he exclusively made available to News Band Newspaper said that his call for a review of the old Biafra map stem from the apparent gang up against Ndigbo by other regions of Nigeria and coupled with the unwillingness of other components of the old Eastern region to work together and restore the defunct Republic.

While calling for Igbo Biafra self-determination, Mefor noted that there was no need imposing the Biafra ideology on an unwilling partners.

He however, maintained that if there is need for alliance in the future, then let it be the “alliance of the willing”.

The statement reads, “After reviewing the spate of gang-ups against Ndi-Igbo by the rest of Nigeria in recent times, and more importantly, after efforts to get all the former components Nations of Biafra to jointly put hands together to restore the Biafra of 1967-1970—–and most of them are unwilling and presented the images of unwilling partners-‐—it is my conclusion that the best way forward is for each of them to go about their separate quest for self-determination.Let Ijaw Biafrans,Efik Biafrans, Ibibio Biafrans, Anang Biafrans, Igbo Biafrans etc, go and aspire for or pursue their own self-determination (whether internal self-determination or external self-determination).

“To be realistic, it is time for the map of the first Republic Biafra to be redrawn—-it is time for Igbo Biafra self-determination. The homeland remains the territory of the present South-East states in Nigeria. While it is a verifiable fact that there were Igbo communities uprooted and against their will, made to be part other territories in the South-South and the Middlebelt as a result the delineation of boundaries occasioned by the questionable state creation, it is for these these Igbo communities to decide in a plebiscite when the time is ripe whether they will join the Igbos in the homeland.

“It is time for Igbo Biafra Nationalism/Igbo Biafra self-determination for the emancipation of Igbo Nation-State. If the Igbo Biafrans must make progress, there is no need imposing the Biafra ideology on an unwilling partners. If there is need for alliance in the future, then let it be the “alliance of the willing”.The igbo Biafrans must focus on self preservation,and internal coherence while looking outwards.”