January 10, (THEWILL) – National President of BRACED Union (BU), a socio-political pressure group in the vanguard of regional development of the six South-South states of Nigeria – High Chief Wehere Monday, reiterated the need for Biafra apologists to desist from including any part of the South-South region of BRACED into their proposed Biafra enclave.
High Chief Wehere made this pronouncement as fallout from an emergency congress of BRACED Union (BU), which was held on BU’s virtual platform on Sunday, December 1, 2024.
The pro-South-South group frowned at the recurring trend of Biafra proponents craftily including Niger Delta ethnic nationalities into their Biafra map.
Describing the trend as disturbing, the BU helmsman emphasised that “no part of the South-South Region should be added to their Biafra map as the BRACED States are independent of the South-East which is primarily made up of Igbo tribes and the BRACED states are not Igbos”, he maintained.
On the current moves by the Federal Government to reintroduce regional governments as generating units of the Nigerian nation, as part of the federal government’s restructuring policy, the BU National President, commended the gesture for the executive bills to the National Assembly to that effect.
BU also lauded the ongoing bill for the South-South Development Commission (SSDC) and appealed that an experienced hand such as Ambassador Joe Keshi be made the First Director-General of the proposed SSDC as his experiences and exposure to regional and global development are second to none.
“Amb. Keshi is the man for the job. He has what it takes. With the proposed SSDC under the leadership of a man like Keshi, the BRACED states shall experience fair and steady development across board. We believe in his capabilities. Keshi has done it with the BRACED Commission and can do it again with SSDC”, Chief Wehere added.
In all, the BU National President thanked President Tinubu for these steps taken towards the re-introduction of regional government, as this shall go a long way to give bite to talks on restructuring which has hitherto become more of campaign rhetoric than actual action!
Amos Okioma is a Correspondent at THEWILL
