OPINION: The Needful Sojourn To Ekwulobia: A Sign Of Biafra Solidarity And Force, By Russell Bluejack

In the wake of the recent killing of IPOB members at Ekwulobia, Russell Bluejack writes:

No one wins a war waged against the people. Every fight that targets the people is one doomed to fail.  He is a ginormous fool who thinks he can stand diametrically opposed to the will of the MAJORITY.  The greatest warrior is he who fights on the side of the generality of the people. The combined team of Willie Obiano's stooges and those servile to the APC-controlled FGN should beware of the potentiality of the willed revolutionaries.

Sadly,  we are forced to think that those begrudged by the movement for the restoration of Biafra undermine the support it has garnered by limiting it to one person - Mazi Nnamdi Kanu.  Well, they are correct in a sense.  O yes,  Mazi Nnamdi Kanu is the driver of the reinvigorated and refined agitation,  but it will be a fatal flaw for anyone to think he is the VEHICLE.  The vehicle is fueled by the feeling of disintegration, oppression,  and exclusion. We love and respect this phenomenal arrowhead of the renewed movement,  but the tentacles of the quest stretch to and cover various states outside the East - Rivers,  Akwa Ibom,  Cross River,  Delta,  Bayelsa,  Edo,  Kogi,  and Benue.

We are not oblivious of some mercenaries assigned to dampen the morale of some of our people in South-South, yet it must be made known to whomever chooses to listen that the attempt to reunite components of the old Eastern Region is not just FEASIBLE,  but also most DESIRABLE. What the aforesaid assertion denotes is that the destructive and divisive activities of the Hausa/Fulani mercenaries is not yielding the desired result, since states exterior to the East are beginning to feel the lost force of attraction.   It is only a matter of time before the unity project becomes as clear as crystal. Our people are beginning to know that calls emanating from self-styled activities and self-acclaimed elders for NIGER DELTA REPUBLIC are diversionary and injurious to what we stand to gain by working with our brothers and sisters in the East.

The attempt by the troubled and garrulous men of the police and army to disrupt the visit of Mazi Nnamdi Kanu to Ekwulobia confirms the notion that the oppressive zen called Nigeria will stop at nothing in their bid to crush us.  But are Biafrans crushable?  What they have failed to take into cognisance is that this agitation is not novel,  but rather the outpouring of an accumulated feeling of oppression,  subjugation,  social and political undermining,  alienation,  and exclusion.  Yes,  oppressors become the object of oppression over time.

One expected this special gift from Lord Lugard to the North called Nigeria to have learned from the failure of the staged Ozubulu killings, Port Harcourt killings, Aba killings,  and Onitsha massacre that no oppressor,  however cruel, can crush the will of a people.  From the needless arrest of Mazi Nnamdi Kanu to his illicit extensive imprisonment without fair trial, Nigeria ought to have known that she lacks what is considered nifty to quell this agitation.  Matter-of-factly,  every attempt to douse the fire of a well formed agitation ends up stoking it.  Now, how does that notion concern the Ekwulobia case?  Read on.

Obiano and his allies ought to have known better than  make this tactless move.  They think,  in their folly,  that they have won,  but will be stunned at the boomerang effect of their miscalculated move.  This is what is going to happen: the entire states,  LGAs,  communities, clans,  and villages in the real Eastern Region will send their representatives to ensure that a sea of human beings take over Ekwulobia preparatory to Mazi Nnamdi Kanu's arrival on the rescheduled date.  The various warlords, numerous armed forces in the region, and able-bodied youths well fortified for the outing will throng in and give this outing the needed shield.  So, I ask: is this rejected country called Nigeria waging war against those that want to desert it in peace? Must we live together, even when it is lucid that we will always feel disintegrated?

The international community has become spectator in these needless clashes.  Whatever happens on Sunday,  August 20 at Ekwulobia will be their doing.  Biafrans have proven to the world that they are peace-loving,  lawful,  and decorous agitators.  They cannot continue to live like fatalists.  The days of being preys to the predatory Nigeria are over.  I score the Trump-led United States of America (USA),  United Nations (UN), and other international organizations very low in the way this agitation has been attended to thus far.  It is my submission that all the debates in various international legislative assemblies that are analogous to Biafra are not speedy enough to address the wanton killings.  Will these debates ever end?  I ask because Nigeria has shown no signs of letting unarmed Biafrans off the hook of unprovoked extermination.  Will the international community step in when we have all died? Or are they waiting for a full-blown civil war?  What do they really want?

The Ekwulobia rally must hold! I enjoin all well meaning Biafrans worldwide to support it. Willie Obiano and Nigeria must fail this time.  I join millions of Biafrans round the world to commiserate with those that were killed by the oppressors.  May their gentle souls rest in the bosom of the Most High.  We shall dedicate the expected success of Ekwulobia outing to these martyrs.  Nigeria can kill the messenger(s),  but the message will survive and continue to reach various generations. Give us Biafra now.  Referendum,  not war,  is what we ask for.  Nigeria is doomed to collapse.  Biafrans are simply asking for a peaceful dissembling of this loose pot-pourri of discordant cultures,  values,  and religions.

#EkwulobiaMustStand
#ReferendumNotWar

Russell Idatoru Bluejack is a thinker,  revolutionary writer,  university tutor,  and socio-economic and political analyst that writes from Port Harcourt

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