The proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) has argued that the discovery of crude oil in the northern part of the country should mean that Biafra can be allowed to exist as a sovereign State.
The groups spokesman, Emma Powerful, who said this in a statement yesterday, added that the discovery was an answer to the prayers of its leader, Nnamdi Kanu, who had prayed that the Northern region should discover petroleum in commercial quantities to facilitate the Biafra exit.
Recall that President Muhammadu Buhari, on Tuesday, flagged-off the commercial production of crude oil and gas from the $3bn Kolmani Integrated Development Project. The Kolmani project is located along the fields of Gombe and Bauchi, with Oil Prospecting License, OPL, 809 and 810, lying in the Gongola Basin of the Upper Benue Trough, joining the two northern states.
Reacting to the development, IPOB said the Northern region has been reluctant to let Biafra happen because it benefits from the proceeds of the crude oil in the South-East, despite having solid minerals.
The statement partly read: The discovery of over a billion barrels of crude oil in Gongola Basin is another important thing that has happened to the Northerners.
The prophecy of Nnamdi Kanu has come true because he prayed in one of his Radio Biafra broadcasts that God should give to the North oil so that Nigerias problem will be solved once and for all. Now that every component part of Nigeria has oil, can we all go our separate ways and mind our own businesses?
