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PPP Endorses the Right to Self Determination - Calls for Referendum on the Biafra Question
PPP Press Statement; 22nd February 2016

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Nigeria is a signatory to the Charter of the United Nations; Article 1 of the UN Charter states that nations, based on respect for the principle of equal rights and fair equality of opportunity, have the right to freely choose their sovereignty and international political status with no external compulsion or interference.

 

We acknowledge that this universal principle does not state how the decision is to be made, or what the outcome should be; whether it be independence, federation, confederation, protection, some form of autonomy or full assimilation; which allows every signatory to the Charter, such as Nigeria, the obligation to address the needs of the Charter on the basis of its own peculiar circumstance.

 

We make haste to add that this principle is enshrined for the very same purpose of avoiding attrition amongst member nations of a state; tending towards civil wars, genocide, deaths and human rights abuses of all kinds and manners. By virtue of this, right a nation is provided with the option to freely determine their political status and to freely pursue their economic, social and cultural development.

 

Nigeria is a signatory to this international law and therefore owes its union nations the obligation to abide with the law when circumstances so demand. The current circumstance now demands it; one in which the rights of citizens to protest on the issue of self-determination has somehow become illegal by fiat and brute force, which has led to summary extra-judicial killings and charges of treason.

 

In this circumstance, Nigeria must abide by its obligation under the UN Charter and international law to approve an orderly referendum to address the Biafra question. This is the only way to a fair, lasting and enduring solution.

 

PPP therefore calls on the Nigerian Government and the National Assembly to, as a matter of national urgency, immediately commence the process to organize a free and fair referendum on the issue of Biafra. This has become necessary in order to stem the tide of ongoing killings and bleedings in our country.

 

No union should exist under the barrels of a gun!

Signed:
Dr. Damian Uzoma Ogbonna
National Chairman

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