Biafra agitator, Dr. Ngozi Orabueze, has said that Biafrans are begging to exit Nigeria due to prolonged marginalisation and persecution of Christians in the South-East region.

Orabueze, who is known as the Deputy Prime Minister and Chief of Staff, United States of Biafra, disclosed this in an interview with an American author and blogger, Robert Spencer, on Friday.

She posted the interview on X, where she adduced reasons for seeking Biafra independence.

According to the Simon Ekpa’s second in command, Biafrans in Nigeria have continued to suffer the issue of marginalisation and persecution, which led to the breakout of civil war in 1967.

She explained that wanton killings of Christians in the South-East region have become the cardinal reason for continued calls for Biafra independence.

“Biafrans cannot stay in a country that integrates terrorists into security agencies,” she alleged.

Orabueze said that Simon Ekpa, the Prime of USB, was arrested by the Finnish government two weeks before the Biafra Independence declaration in November 2024 on what she described as “flimsy excuse of inciting terrorism.”

“Currently, our prime minister of the USB is being detained and incarcerated by Finnish authorities on a very flimsy excuse.

“How can you incite people that are begging to leave? The Finnish government arrested our prime minister.

“Recently, between December 2024 and today, we’ve had over hundreds of Christians killed in Biafra land by the Fulani terrorists and the reintegrated terrorists wearing uniforms.

“This is what the Christians have gone through in Nigeria over the years; there’s no solution, there’s no comment from the government, and everybody turns a deaf ear, and that was part of the reason why the United States of Biafra has declared their independence because we cannot continue to live in a country where the government has reintegrated known terrorists into the police, into the military, and sent them down to the Biafra territory to kill anyone that talks about Biafra.

“Biafrans are begging to leave; we do not want to live in a country that reintegrates Boko Haram.

“It is our right to choose our leaders. It is our right to go home and develop the Biafran nation. By the declaration we’ve done, we will go home and practice our religion.

“We are pursuing our freedom to serve and defend our land and our people.

“The persecution of Christians in Nigeria has been troublesome; it has been very sad.

“A report in Washington DC declared Nigeria one of the deadliest places for Christians to live, with a report of over 10,000 Christians killed in Nigeria,” she further claimed.

Orabueze noted that “Nnamdi Kalu is the leader of the indigenous people of Biafra, our prime minister of the United States of Biafra is Simon Ekpa. That is the relationship.”

She added that the expectations of Biafrans are to get support from the US government.

“The expectations of Biafra are that we get support from the USA; we are already seeing some signs of that, and we are very happy where we are right now,” she stated.