The Movement for the Actualisation of the Sovereign State of Biafra (MASSOB) and Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) have decried the call by South-East leaders of All Progressives congress (APC) to them to jettison their quest for an independent country from Nigeria, while branding them (the agitators) as enemies of the Igbo.
MASSOB and IPOB’s reactions came as response to a communiqué released by the APC South-East leaders’ zonal executive committee, following a meeting held in Enugu last weekend.
In a signed statement made available to New Telegraph via e-mail by MASSOB and IPOB leaders, Comrade Uchenna Madu and Emma Powerful, the groups said the since the emergence of the Muhammadu Buhari’s administration, the South-East APC had become a mere political stooge.
They added that nobody takes them seriously again because they have no political ideology.
According to the statement, “In the entire Igboland, they are being disenfranchised by their own party which has no regard for South-East APC’s contributions and unflinching support. MASSOB views the position of the party leadership in the region to drop Biafra agitation as the moaning of a drowning man.”
The party’s South-East National Vice Chairman, Hon. Emma Eneukwu, lauded the APC-led Federal Government for capturing the Second Niger Bridge, Enugu-Onitsha, the Enugu Port-Harcourt and Onitsha- Owerri Roads in the 2016 budget.Following the South-East APC leaders meeting in Enugu, the party said through a communique that it was in support of the anti-corruption crusade of the President Muhammadu Buhari’s administration, to recover all looted public funds stolen by past leaders of the country.
Meanwhile, a group, the Conference of Minority Tribes of Nigeria has urged the Federal Government to hold the leadership of the IPOB responsible for the alleged killings of some Northerners in the South- East by those believed to be members of the group.
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Addressing a press conference yesterday in Abuja, Secretary General of the group, Comrade Samson Ayodele Babalola, condemned the killings, describing it as a crime against humanity He threatened to drag the leadership of the group to the International Criminal Court (ICC) at the Hague following the alleged killings of the northerners in Abia State.
Babalola, said the killings marked a new low in what had been cordial relations between ethnic nationalities in Nigeria that have always accepted one another as family.