Asks for ‘two-state’ solution for Biafra
The People’s Progressive Party (PPP) has described President Muhammadu Buhari’s position on efforts at self-determination by the Palestinians, as ‘hypocritical and highly dishonest.’
The PPP called on Buhari to rather give a second thought to the issue of Biafra in Nigeria in the light of his proposition for a ‘two- party’ solution to the Israeli-Palestine squabble.
Buhari, had during his recent visit to Qatar, expressed support for the statehood of Palestine. He suggested that the City of Jerusalem, which has been the subject of decades of conflict with the state of Israel, should be approved as the capital of the Arab state.
In a statement signed on Tuesday in Abuja by PPP National Chairman, Dr. Damian Uzoma Ogbonna, the party said it agreed with the president on the principle and right to self-determination as enshrined in the relevant United Nations (UN) Charter and UN Security Council resolutions.
Reacting to the president’s call for a ‘two-state’ solution for Palestine and Israel, with the state of Palestine living side by side with the state of Israel, Ogbonna said: “We fail to understand why the same President Buhari opposes a similar solution right here at home on the Biafra question; why he would abandon dialogue and rather prefer that unarmed Biafra protesters be shot and killed on sight for daring to demand the Palestinian solution here in Nigeria. This is the same solution he has so eloquently and so freely canvassed in far away Qatar. This is where we part ways with the President.
He argued that the Palestinian and the Biafra question are one and the same, as the issues are the right to self-determination of component nations of both states — the State of Israel and the state of Nigeria.
The People’s Progressive Party (PPP) has described President Muhammadu Buhari’s position on efforts at self-determination by the Palestinians, as ‘hypocritical and highly dishonest.’
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