President Muhammdu Buhari has been accused of toying with the Igbos, the accusation was made by the Movement for the Actualization of the Sovereign States of Biafra (MASSOB).

Member of MASSOB protesting in Port
Harcourt
The accusation follows a recent claim by
Buhari that he is not marginalizing the bloc
in anyway..

It is recalled that Buhari had during the
presidential media chat denied marginalizing
Ndigbo. The president stresed that they hold
strategic positions in his cabinet including the
petroleum and labour ministries and the
governor of the central bank.
MASSOB however, insisted that despite
Buhari’s denials, there has been deliberate
attempts by the federal government to
scheme out Ndigbo in the top echelon of
power in Nigeria.
Vanguard reports that MASSOB through its
spokesman, Sunny Okereafor, queried the
basis of Buhari’s claims of not marginalizing
Ndigbo when he ensured that key position in
his administration went only to the core
north.
“President Buhari’s is being economical with the
truth with his claim that Ndigbo are not
marginalized in Nigeria. How can Buhari ask
who is marginalizing Ndigbo and to what extent?
Does he want us to remind him that all the key
and strategic position in his administration are
being held by the core north? If not that the
Constitution guarantees that a ministerial
nominee must be appointed from each state, no
Igbo man would have been appointed a minister.
In Buhari’s Nigeria, there are now certain
positions which are no go areas for Ndigbo.


“We have always said it that Ndigbo have no
future in Nigeria and have been made second
class citizens in a country that they are major
stakeholders. This is why we want Biafra.
Biafra is the answer to the marginalization of
Ndigbo in Nigeria,” MASSOB opined.
The group insisted that the cries of
marginalization of Ndigbo and the struggle to
actualize an independent state of Biafra has
heightened during Buhari’s administration due
to hatred for the Igbo people.
In furtherance of their course, MASSOB has
said that the projected independent Biafra
state will also include the Niger Delta region
of the country . The group stressed that the
people of Biafra cannot find peace in Nigeria
until they get an independent state.