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The President General, Urhobo Progress Union. (UPU), worldwide, Olorogun Moses Taiga, has distanced the Urhobo nation, from the map of the proposed Biafra Republic.
Taiga who made the clarification during a media interactive session with TheNewsGuru.com in Lagos said Urhobos are not neighbours to those claiming that Delta State is part of their territory.
He said, “We the Urhobo nation know that we are not even neighbours to any of those people that claim we are part of their Biafra.
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“If you are talking about our neighbours, we know we have Ijaws to the West, Edo to the North, Anioma is to the North-East; and a natural River Niger … so there is no correlation of any sorts with their insinuations.
“So, if somebody draws an artificial map and says Delta State is part of it, that, to me, doesn’t add up”
“We are not part of them [IPOB] or any other kingdom. We are the fourth largest nation in the country. We have not articulated, until now, our rightful position and that is what our association [UPU] is set out to achieve.
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It is not how much noise we make about it, It is how well we articulate our position; articulate and, of course, get the due recognition that we deserve as a people.” He noted
The man, Nnamdi Kanu lives in England and makes all sorts of claims.
Speaking on the on-going national debate on the necessity to restructure Nigeria, Taiga observed that the position of the Urhobo nation is tandem with that of the Southern Leaders Forum’.
“Our position rests on the Southern leaders 16 point agenda which was enunciated two weeks ago at the Southern Leaders Forum in Lagos. In it, we are calling for the restructuring of the federation in accordance with the independent constitution which calls for true federalism and states that every region controls the resources within its boundary and contribute tax to the centre ,as well as develop at its own pace.
“We want states to be independent and control their resources. We have to review the concurrent and exclusive lists in a way that all these tiers of government won’t be competing with itself. It is about going back to the status quo; the issue of becoming an independent state is irrelevant.” He ended