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Maybe Wabara should come to this forum and tell some of the people making noise about Biafra.
quote:Daily Independent Online. * Thursday, September 4, 2003.
'Calls for Biafra unnecessary'
By Abdul Jelil
Daily Independent, Abuja
Senate President, Adolphus Wabara has said that the call for revalidation of Republic of Biafra was unnecessary.
Also, Wabara has identified disunity among the Igbo as the greatest problem facing the entire South East zone.
The senate president reiterated that such calls for the revalidation of Biafran Republic had been consigned to history since the Igbo race has been fully integrated into Nigeria.
In a paper he presented at the ongoing World Igbo Congress in Tennessee, United States, Wabara said it was high time the Igbo took their destinies in their hands.
According to him, the alarming rate at which young Igbo boys are dropping out of school to embrace trade should be roundly condemned as it has the tendencies of placing the race in a great disadvantage in future.
"The present and future belong to those who are prepared, by having the requisite skills and education for our changing times. If we do not equip ourselves, we are doomed to the margins. And this cannot be inflicted marginalisation, but self-marginalisation."
He challenged the Igbo congress to demonstrate that Ndigbo have core values and are ready to prompt those core values of industry, integrity and honesty.
On calls for revalidation of Biafran Republic, Wabara said it has been consigned to history as the race has been fully reintegrated into Nigeria.
"We the Ndigbo are now talking of Igbo presidency. But how can we achieve Igbo presidency when some of us are still talking about Biafra. It is a contradiction. We have moved beyond Biafra," the Senate President noted.
He therefore, charged the delegates to regard this year's edition of the congress as an opportunity to chart a new direction for the Igbo.
He promised to set up an ultra modern Igbo Unity Centre that could trigger off a renaissance of sort for the South East zone. The centre will be located in Enugu, he added.
The ultra modern centre, he hoped will minister to the many social educational, cultural and political needs that would serve as a rallying point for all Igbo groups.
He said the era of blaming their misfortune in the contemporary Nigeria on the civil war could no longer be accepted.
"It is true that the war caused us a lot of reversals and that events after the war have succeeded in pushing us Ndigbo to the margins, but it is also true that Ndigbo have succumbed to two easy ways, continue to moan as perpetual victims and continue to surrender the high grounds to others."
In the senate president's entourage were Senator Arthur Nzeribe, Ifeanyi Ararume, Fidelis Okoro, Chris Adighije and Ken Nnamani. Former Senate President, Evans Enwerem, Chukwu Ozichukwu and Hon. Osita Izunago and Jerry Ugokwe were also in attendance.
It is time to stop all this Biafra talk and start dealing with real Naija issues.
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wabara, like kalu, does not speak for the Igbo. NdiIgbo never selected/elected them to represent the Igbo nation. They may be in the pocket of the nigerians, but they're in no position to dictate the outcomes in Biafra.
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Wabara was doing his masters bidding, a replacement of idiotic Ojo! Igbo did not send him.
___________________ He likened the second coming of Christ to the realisation of the Biafran dream, stating that at a time people least expect, the much sought Biafra would be a reality..Rev. Fr. Cornelius Ezeiloaku Posts: 622 | From: santiago, chile | Registered: Jan 2002
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Wabara is a nonentity as far as Igbo is concerned. So no right thinking Igbo who is not an efulefu like Wabara cares about what he has to say on issue of Biafra or anything else.
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Wabara has the right to his views, but he needs to prove others wrong. Recently I read that he petiitoned the leader of the illegitimate regime in Nigeria concerning the state of roads in the East. I am waiting to read the outcome.
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What do you expect from a man who didn't even win an election to become the senate president. He is doing his masters bidding. Shame on World Ignorance congress for inviting the efulefu in the first place.
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quote: Recently I read that he petiitoned the leader of the illegitimate regime in Nigeria concerning the state of roads in the East.~~~Sylva
Sylva,
All I have to say to you is don't hold your breath on that reported petition from Wabara or you will not live to see it happen.
If Wabara wrote such a petition, in no way does he believe in its content. He will be doing it to save face with the Igbo that saw him given an election that he did not win.
Ednut,
You are absolutely right, I do have the right to say what I think of Wabara. I will never shy away from that position.
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This Nwagbara sef he talk like he does not knowing tomorrow Obasanjo will told him to go away and fire him. He is there chopping bribe in Abuja and his people are live in hell with all the Obasanjo killing Igbvo people.
One day be one day monkey go go market and no go return. Nwagbara go see all these things.
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