The United Progressives Party (UPP) has backed the agitation for Biafra, saying it was a normal decision especially in the current situation of Nigeria.
The party, has however also disclosed that it will field an Igbo presidential candidate in the 2019 general elections.
Making this known on Saturday, the Party’s National Chairman, Chief Chekwas Okorie, during a meeting with stakeholders in Awka, Anambra State.
Okorie, said the Igbos have competent people who could pilot the affairs of the country and deliver it from its present situation.
He said the Igbo naturally were not vindictive and so had the conduced spirit to lift the country as hardworking, creative and enterprising people.
According to him: “The ruling All Progressives Congress has divided the country along primordial cleavages more than any government had done. The APC has brought Nigeria to near disintegration.”
“We have been politically defrauded by a political party that canvassed true federalism while it sought for the votes of trusting Nigerians.
“But in a very unscrupulous manner, it has jettisoned its avowed article of faith, and foisted on harmless Nigerian citizens the worst form of nepotism, reductionism, lethargy, cluelessness and retrogression.” he added.
