Laughable! Akpabio leads Northern delegates to NEGOTIATE on behalf of Biafrans. IPOB and MASSOB reacts

Laughable! Akpabio leads Northern delegates to NEGOTIATE on behalf of Biafrans. IPOB and MASSOB reacts

In a very laughable move the former governor of Akwa-Ibom State, Senator Godswill Akpabio led a delegation accompanied by some northern elites on behalf of MASSOB to the Nigerian government to broker a peace deal for Biafrans.

This has led to angry reaction from the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) and the Movement for the Actualization of Sovereign State of Biafra (MASSOB). IPOB and MASSOB clearly states that the only way they would be part of the dialogue is if Nnamdi Kanu, the detained leader of the IPOB and director of Radio Biafra, is part of it.

Nnamdi-Kanu in court

Speaking on the proposed dialogue, in Enugu, yesterday, MASSOB Director of Information, Edson Samuel, said: “We are shocked that Akpabio, who disowned MASSOB at the inception of this demonstration, led some northern leaders to broker truce on our behalf. We do not know them, neither can we identify with them because any person moving to dialogue between us and Federal Government must first meet with us and know our demands.

“This demonstration is strictly anchored by MASSOB, and IPOB, Therefore, Akpabio, working with his cohort, Dozie Ikedife, have shown hatred for Nnamdi Kanu. We make haste to disown them.

“Ikedife has his own agenda and believe in the constitution of Nigeria, which we do not believe in. MASSOB and Biafra do not have faith in Nigerian constitution. The Nigerian constitution is a complete fraud, that is why we are protesting to opt out. The framers of the constitution never consulted Ndigbo when it was crafted.

Meanwhile the Raph Uwazurike -led Biafra Independence Movement (BIM) on its part elucidated on why it would not be part of any negotiation intended to strengthen Nigeria’s national unity and stability, but rather the one that will ensure the actualization of Biafra.

BIM said it had equally distanced self from the outcome of an emergency meeting in Asaba, Delta State and the one earlier held by the Supreme Elders Council of IPOB at Sheraton Hotels and Towers, Abuja, Wednesday, December 9, 2015, where they agreed that the recent demonstrations in the Southeast and parts of South-South were agitations for the right to “call ourselves Biafrans within the Nigerian equation.”

In a press statement issued in Onitsha, Anambra State, BIM’s Deputy Director for Information, Mazi Chris Anierobi Mocha, said such discussions ‘’with our oppressors have a sinister motive behind it,’’ adding, “our position is to achieve a separate country with the name and tittle: ‘Republic of Biafra, no more no less.’

In a related development, residents of Onitsha and its environs have asked General Muhammadu Buhari to dismantle military roadblocks in Anambra State erected to oppress Biafrans and suppress Biafran peaceful protests.

Speaking with Vanguard, Mr. Chinonso Ukaegbu, a trader said that normalcy had returned to the commercial city of Onitsha and its environs and there was no need for the joint military task force operations in the state.

“The IPOB and MASSOB activists are no more protesting in the state. They have also announced the suspension of their protests, and Onitsha is back to normalcy.Why should the people be subjected to dehumanizing act of raising our hands or running past the check points irrespective of age and status?” he said.

The Campaign for Democracy also made similar call, saying that there was no war or tension in Anambra State and therefore, people should not be subjected to dehumanizing situations where they had to raise their hands from three poles to the check points mounted by the Army and the Police.