Igbokwe, who condemned the resurgence of pro-Biafran agitation in the South-East, said he had 25 reasons why Biafra would not work as a country.
The APC spokesperson, in an interview with our correspondent on Tuesday, said it was unfortunate that the Igbo ignored his piece of advice not to vote for former President Goodluck Jonathan in 2015.
He said the Igbo should have been mature enough, 46 years after the civil war, “to throw persecution complex, leadership complex and defeatism attitude into the dustbin of history.”
Igbokwe slammed one of the leaders of the Movement for the Actualisation of the Sovereign State of Biafra, Ralph Uwuzuruike, adding that many Igbo leaders were using the agitation for secession to raise funds for themselves and their families.
The APC spokesperson, therefore, asked Igbo elites to stand up against the agitation so as not to repeat the mistakes of the past.
Igbokwe described the agitators as “crooks and biafrauds.”
He said, “The Igbo have this tradition and culture to move and settle anywhere in the world to do business. I think that Biafra will be too small for us as a country. Have we considered what the Igbo would lose in Abuja, Lagos and Port Harcourt in terms of real estate if we secede?
“Before the 2015 election, I warned the Igbo that President Jonathan would not win in 2015 given the obvious and painful fact that the Yoruba and the Hausa-Fulani had formed an alliance which left the South- East and the South-South as a miserable minority. The Igbo did not listen because they believed so much in the power of incumbency. The Transformation Ambassador of Nigeria had planned to give Jonathan 25 million votes by all means possible.
“Today, we hear Biafra on the social media; we hear it in Igbo land, but one thing is certain. We have to debate this one. We did not discuss the 1966 to 1970 Biafra and the 1967 to 1970 civil war, and we all know the consequences. Now, the Biafra of 2016 will be well debated.”
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