The Movement for the Actualization of the Sovereign State of Biafra cautioned South-East governors and members of the National Assembly from Igbo land on Thursday not to sabotage the region’s presidential candidates.
Anyone detected will be treated as a saboteur and betrayer of his own brother, according to the pro-Biafra group.
The organization also denounced several Igbo governors’ support for Governor Nyesom Wike of Rivers State’s presidential bid, particularly Dr Okezie Ikpazu of Abia State.
Comrade Edeson Samuel, the group’s National Director of Information, called it as “extremely sad and unpatriotic” that some Igbo political figures, whom Ndigbo had entrusted with representing Igbo interests, would work against the Igbo agenda in order to win the election.
“How could some of our political leaders back a man who openly rejected his ‘igboness’; a man whose pathological hatred for Ndigbo is overwhelmingly seen?” MASSOB wondered.
“Governor Wike, a guy full of himself and arrogant without respect for anyone, encouraged the death of Igbo youths in River State.
“MASSOB has advised Igbo leaders to quit acting selfishly and distorting the general interests of the South-East region, because MASSOB will no longer tolerate political selfishness.”
“Governor Wike is not interested in running for president; he is an errand boy for his master, Governor Tambuwal of Sokoto state,” the statement continued. Nyesom Wike, our Igbo political leaders, should be aware that he is fooling them. The South-East is set to produce Nigeria’s next president in 2023.
“These South-East governors played the same trick with General Mohammadu Buhari and the governing APC government in the 2019 general election, promising Buhari 25% of our support because of their self-interest.”
“As a result of the crisis over who should control the state structures and the list of party delegates that will be submitted to the party national secretariat in Abuja for the upcoming primaries, our intelligence report has revealed that the Governor of Abia State is in agreement with Nyesom Wike,” says the report.
“Regardless of his position, any Igbo leader who violates our collective interest in 2023 would be marked,” he said.
