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Nigerians yesterday expressed conflicting views as President Muhammadu Buhari finally replaced the nation’s defence chiefs. While some applauded the action, others faulted the President and his action. x
The retired military top brass was Chief of Defence Staff, General Abayomi Olonisakin; Chief of Army Staff, Lt-Gen. Tukur Buratai; Chief of Naval Staff, Vice Admiral Ibok Ekwe Ibas and Chief of Air Staff, Air Marshal Sadique Abubakar.
A socio-political group, World Igbo Peoples Assembly, (WIPAS), has said that Ndigbo has the largest stake in Nigeria and will not leave it for anybody.
The Igbo organization noted that Igbo nationalists led the independence and that Nigeria owes a lot of debt to Ndigbo especially on political, structural and infrastructural fronts.
WIPAS in a statement signed by its Chairman, Board of Trustees, Mazi Chuks Ibegbu and issued to DAILY POST on Saturday, asked all politicians from other geopolitical zones nursing presidential ambitions to think twice in the interest of Nigeria.
The group noted that what Ndigbo needs today is not a physical Biafra but a Biafra of the mind.