Biafra: Afenifere slams Buhari for saying Igbo is ‘a dot in a circle’

Afenifere, the apex socio-cultural organisation in the South West, has slammed President Muhammadu Buhari for his recent comment against the Igbo nation.

Buhari had during an interview with Arise TV on Thursday said that ‘”IPOB is just like a dot in a circle. Even if they want to exit, they will have no access to anywhere.

Reacting, Afenifere noted that ”the President takes delight in ridiculing the Ndigbo which he used IPOB to represent.”

A statement signed by its Secretary General, Chief Sola Ebiseni in Akure, Afenifere noted that to Buhari, “the Igbo and their territory is just a dot in a circle of the map of Nigeria, which even if they secede could exit to nowhere since the elders and youths of the South-South had assured him of not being part of the secessionist agenda.

“He couldn’t have been reacting to the IPOB but the Igbos whom he said had businesses everywhere. His utterances were very unpresidential and in the mode of common expressions with some unidentifiable northern organisations.”

President Buhari’s statement, according to analysts, showed clearly that the President does not understand that Igbo Ethnic bloc is different from the secessionist group known as the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB.