A former Bakassi detainee and frontline separatist chief, Princewill Chimezie Richards, has known as on the Federal Authorities of Nigeria led by President Bola Tinubu to conduct a referendum for the individuals of the South East and South South as the federal government has didn’t revive the seaports within the area, in addition to treating the individuals as third class residents.
Richards said this on Monday whereas addressing newsmen in Calabar, Cross River State capital, including that his warnings don’t come empty.
The separatist chief, who stated he instructions loyalists who hearken to him and are daredevils, identified that “Calabar had the primary seaport and a historic city the place colonial masters settled. Igbos had been additionally bought in the course of the slave commerce by means of Calabar,” insisting that Lagos doesn’t have any historic document.
Talking on the nationwide protest, Richards stated that the northerners had showcased their agenda of wanting a Russian invasion and Russian rule however they don’t converse for the Igbos and different sections of the nation.
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He stated the Igbos, particularly his loyalists, determine with Israel and can all the time achieve this.
CONVERSEER stories that Richards is the founding father of the Biafra Nation League (BnL), a separatist group that has regularly paraded the Bakassi Peninsula because it was fully ceded to Cameroon.