While
the Lower Niger Congress’ official statement on the outcome of US 2016
Presidential Elections is being finalized, I will hint our folks here that the
position the LNC as an organization took on the directions as candidates
emerged, is anchored on a thoroughly researched institutional memory,
especially as touching on the Igbo Question in Nigeria.
Key amongst the issues
considered were (1) the fact that the 1968 US Presidential Elections the
brought Nixon, was decided largely by the question of the genocide in Biafra in
which the Democratic Administration headed by President LB Johnson was in
cahoots with the Britain for economic considerations, even as orf Americans
writhed in pain and aguish, sacrificing much to try to save the dying children
in Biafra, to the point where 20 years college boy Bruce Mayrock set himself on
fire at the UN, in protest to what the US Government was doing with Biafra.
Those who know, will
confirm that the emergence of Republican Nixon radically altered what the
consequences of losing the war for the surviving Biafrans could have been.
Yes, assets were
confiscated and punitive policies that reduce Eastern Nigeria to the dreg of
the Nigerian political space, were imposed. The proposal by Northern hawks in
the Gowon War Cabinet, led by Usman Katsina, governor of Northern Region, about
wiping off the surviving males in Biafra, was blocked by the emergence of the
Republican administration in the US.
Many here would remember
the name: Henry Kissinger .
Fast forward to 2011-2015.
By commission or omission,
it was again a Democratic Party administration that spearheaded and supervised
the frustration and extirpation of the providential opportunity to
reverse the enslavement of Eastern Nigeria by the conspiratorial alliance of
the Nigeria, when it aided the vicious hounding and ousting of a Jonathan that
was heading irreversibly in the direction of revisiting the foundations of
Nigeria.
We saw John Kerry,
interfere door-to-door with the 2015 Election, foisting an extremist
Caliphate hawk who robustly participated in that gory genocidal episode, on
Nigeria as President, Buhari, and who immediately resumed the unfinished 1966-70
business of annihilating Easterners, especially Nd’Igbo.
I was directly involved in
the hot part of the marauding that took place and we very narrowly got Jonathan
escaping the re-enactment of the Ironsi treatment and the consequential 3.5
million deaths in Eastern Nigeria. (Nothing partisan in terms of PDP or APC,
plain life-and-death disputations between the Caliphate and “the slave” from
Otuoke).
It is not that Donald Trump
the individual, will go out of his way to do anything spectacular for Eastern
Nigeria as some Biafran Propagandists naively peddle, but his emergence removes
from Washington, the enablers of the tormentors of the Eastern Region and
creates a huge vista of opportunities for Eastern Nigeria to engage the
existential challenges confronting it in Nigeria.
Again, on behalf of the
LNC, I have been directly involved in the Washington-New York Diplomatic
Tunnels on the issues relating to the Eastern Nigeria Question in Nigeria.
On the other hand, those
now in Abuja (or maybe I should say, Daura) with whom John Kerry and his
Principals in Washington worked, to wrought the change we now have which
ruinously aggravates the already terrible situation of Eastern Nigeria, already
know that they have a new reality in their hands.
The rampaging, bloodletting
Islamic movement in Nigeria has suffered a heavy blow this morning.
Tony Nnadi is a
leader of the Lower Niger Congress, an organisation that advocates for a UN
supervised referendum to decide the structure of Nigeria
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