Sun News
A Nnewi-based preacher has prophesied the emergence of what he calls a ‘United Igbo Republic’ amid growing calls for separatism in Nigeria’s South East.
Bishop Abraham Chris Udeh, the General Overseer of Mount Zion Faith Global Liberation Ministries (aka “By Fire By Fire”) in Nnewi, Anambra State said that he had received the ‘revelation’ while observing his ministry’s annual forty-day prayer and fasting that a group called the ‘Indigenous People of Igbo (IPI)’ is poised to actualise the new republic.
Bishop Udeh told the media that those to make up the new Igbo nation as revealed to him would consist of Igbo-speaking inhabitants of Rivers, Edo, Benue, Akwa Ibom, Delta and all other states with Igbo-speakers.
According to him, ‘this new development is better than sticking to Biafra. The name Biafra should be dropped to embrace the new name. The Igbo must zero on the United Igbo Republic (Igbo Bu Igbo) and a new group called the Indigenous People of Igbo (IPI) are the ones God has designated to actualise the Igbo new nation. You should know that Ndigbo are republicans. The agitators must stick to this new God’s agenda. This new name will add tonic to Igbo freedom without wasting time.
‘People from Itsekiri, Ijaw and some parts of Bayelsa have removed themselves from the struggle and they should be left alone. They have been bought over by the Fulanis. If any of them is later interested, they can apply to the United Nations (UNO)for inclusion. But, by the way, the UNO is doing the bidding of the Islamic nations, they should not be trusted. UNO has lost its credibility. The organisation should rather be known now as United Arab Nations (UAN) not UNO because of its activities to support Islamic nations.
‘If Igbo inhabitants in Rivers are added to the new Republic, the Igbo would not be landlocked as some uninformed antagonists of the Igbo have thought. People from Ikwerre in Rivers and those from Ika Ibo are free to join this movement that must come to pass. Others can go ahead with one Nigeria.
‘The UNO and Nigerian government must not waste time to conduct a referendum to make sure this revelation comes to pass. Nobody can change it. Igbo are destined to have the new Republic and nobody can stop it. The Nigerian government has failed to declare bandits and killer herdsmen as terrorists only to insist that IPOB as an organisation seeking freedom is one. This cannot continue. Thus says the Lord…
