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The 'Biafra Request' is a Lie: Unpacking Kanu's Propaganda and the Unconstitutional Threat.

"Biafrans" keep claiming they have requested to leave Nigeria, and if you have only partial contact in your brain, you might actually believe them.

But let’s be factual here, as of today, there has never been any formal, documented request for secession from the Southeast. None. No petition, no referendum, no legitimate paper trail, nothing.

Why? Because secession is not protected under the Nigerian constitution. You cannot threaten to balkanize a sovereign nation and it will treat it lightly.

It is not done anywhere in the world. The Southeast has elected representation in Abuja through the legislative arm of government, and only the National Assembly , not an individual or a mob , holds the authority to make or process any formal motion on behalf of the people.

At the state level, every SE state is being led by an Igbo governor who hails from that state!

People keep confusing self-determination with secession, and they are not synonymous. Self-determination is the right of a people to pursue autonomy, cultural preservation, and fair representation within a recognized state system. An example will be your village seeking to become an autonomous community and going though the process with the government.

Secession, on the other hand, is a unilateral declaration to break away from that state, and in Nigeria, that is unconstitutional and illegal. Even the threat of it.

IPOB has never followed any recognized path to self-determination. That is not conjecture, it is a fact. They cannot produce any proof of submitting documentation to the UN or any legitimate international body. No country in the world would negotiate with a movement registered as a limited liability company. All they have are photo ops, Nnamdi Kanu and his diaspora followers posing with random white men in suits outside UN buildings, trying to pass off selfies as diplomacy.

The UN Charter on Self-Determination is very clear: it requires structured negotiation, documented intent, non-violence, and recognized representation.

Kanu obliterated any of those chances the moment he formed Eastern Security Network (ESN) and declared an armed struggle.

So where did this myth come from, this fantasy that “we already asked to leave Nigeria”? And Nigeria refused. "Give us referendum " they chant, it is not countries that give referendums to ask whether you want to leave.

It came straight from Kanu’s propaganda , a convenient lie fed to his followers who never demand evidence or seek for it. Google is free, you have 24 hours in a day but you can't spare it researching for the information.

He knows one truth about the average emotionally charged, Biafra-identifying Igbo person: the easiest place to hide facts is behind sentiments.

Just invoke “Ndi Igbo” and “freedom” and logic dies instantly. If Ndi Igbo truly “asked to leave Nigeria,” how come nearly every prominent Igbo elite, the same ones who actually have the wealth, structure, and influence , still have their businesses, homes, and investments across Nigeria?

You want to secede without the political class, without the economic base, without even consensus , just online anger, broadcasts and hashtags?