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.... ....   Home  |  Cover Stories  |  National Newsreel  |  Politics  |  Business  |  Sports  |  World  | Contact Towards a better life for the people Search The Archives   Cover Stories National News South West Niger Delta South East North Politics Business Sports World Viewpoints Features   ..... POLITICS It’s a sign of Igbo unity — Okorie By Tony Edike Sunday, August 29, 2004 THE All Progressives  Grand Alliance (APGA) has expressed support for last Thursday’s sit-at-home protest called by the Movement for the Actualization of the Sovereign State of Biafra (MASSOB), describing it as another effective way of pressing home the inevitability of a national conference to decide the country’s political future. National Chairman of the party, Chief Chekwas Okorie said in Enugu that the party was making a similar agitation for the “political self-determination” of easterners in the nations political equations. He said the MASSOB protest clearly indicated the determination of different peoples and groups in the country to ensure that equity and justice reigned in the land, adding that the absence of such values has continued to fuel agitations for autonomy and independence across the country. The protest, he said, had laid to rest the long held notion that the Igbos were not united and that they would never agree on any issue, adding that it should serve as a signal for the government of Nigeria that all was not well with the country and that it needed to do something urgently to pacify the different ethnic and geopolitical blocs in the country. Okorie, however, warned that a calamity of a greater proportion than the last civil war awaited the country in no distant time if the people were not allowed to discuss their situations and the future of the country under a formal platform. “The MASSOB protest is a clear indication that the Igbos are coming together again and they are determined to get their due share in this country. If they do not give the Igbo people what they deserve, then separation becomes an attractive option. The protest also highlights the urgency of a national conference that would settle all the outstanding issues among different ethnic and geo-political groups in the country. If we don’t hold such a conference, I can assure you that a calamity of a greater magnitude than the last civil war will befall this country,” he said.   Home  |  Cover Stories  |  National Newsreel  |  Politics  |  Business  |  Sports  |  World  | Contact © 1998- 2004. Vanguard Media Ltd.

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