Either Restructuring or Referendum: Ex Anambra Governor, Ezeife Talks on Biafra, Gives FG Ultimatum

Posted by Odinaka on Wed 24th May, 2017 - tori.ng

The former governor of Anambra State, has given the President Muhamamdu Buhari-led federal government an ultimatum as he said that it is either Nigeria is restructured or it goes into referendum.

Chief Ezeife

In a statement on Tuesday after he chaired the First Chinua Achebe International Conference at the University of Nigeria, Nsukka, a former governor of Anambra State, Dr. Chukwuemeke Ezeife, said that it is either Nigeria is restructured into six geopolitical zones or it goes into referendum to decide if the country will remain as one country or disintegrate.

Ezeife who spoke at the event organised by the Institute of African Studies, also said the Southern Peoples Assembly (SPA), will soon meet to take a decision on whether the people of southern Nigeria will participate in 2019 elections if the country was not restructured.

According to Vanguard, the elder statesman, went further to pre-empt that it is possible the people of southern part of Nigeria will boycott the election if President Muhammadu Buhari’s administration does not restructure the country immediately.

He gave Buhari’s government an ultimatum to immediately convene an urgent national summit, which its agenda, he suggested, would be to adopt a framework for the inevitable restructuring.

Ezeife said: “Today, the centre cannot hold any longer in Nigeria. Are we going to watch things fall apart and allow Nigeria disintegrate?

“Today, all speeches have been going in the way of referendum. It has come to a stage where it’s clear that if nothing is done, there will be no more Nigeria.

“My appeal, therefore, is that all hands must be on deck and all brains at work, otherwise the country will exist no more. First, there must be restructuring. After that and we don’t like it ,then any other things can come .”

Other persons who spoke at the conference included; the Obi of Onitsha, HRM Igwe Alfred Achebe, the former Governor of Imo state, Chief Ikedi Ohakim; former Minister of State for Foreign Affairs, Mrs. Viola Onwuleri; veteran actor, Pete Edochie, among others.