MASSOB declares ‘revolution’ on Igbo leaders

A new dimension has been added to the
struggle for Biafra as leaders of the
Movement for the Actualisation of the
Sovereign State of Biafra (MASSOB)
yesterday declared an ‘internal
revolution’ in Igboland, “that would
crush all Igbo leaders standing against
the freedom and survival of Biafra.”
MASSOB leaders said in Enugu that the
referendum was the next stage of their
struggle to achieve Biafra, stressing
that it would also include the demand
for referendum to ensure the excision
of Biafra land from Nigeria.
They insisted that an “internal
revolution” beginning from Igboland
had become necessary, “because these
so-called leaders who have lost touch
with the people are busy constituting a
barrier in our struggle and we will
crush them.”
However, the leader of Biafra
Independent Movement (BIM), Chief
Ralph Uwazurike, yesterday stated that
the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB),
Biafra Zionist Movement (BZM) and a
faction of Movement for the
Actualisation of Sovereign State of
Biafra (MASSOB), led by Uchenna
Madu were all set up against him.
He made the revelation after a meeting
at Onitsha, Anambra State, describing
them as groups that split from his
former MASSOB, and were out to
tarnish his image.
Uwazurike, who was represented at the
meeting by the Nnewi South Regional
Administrator, Tony Nwodo, further
alleged that, “the splinter groups were
expelled because of their anti-MASSOB
activities and they have no other
option than to rush to politicians who
now sponsor them to discredit me and
other MASSOB members, and as a
result we formed the Biafra
Independent Movement.”
Addressing reporters in Enugu,
MASSOB also disowned South-East and
South-South leaders involved in a
reported dialogue over the on-going
pro-Biafra protest and release of
detained Director of Radio Biafra,
Nnamdi Kanu.
In the joint press briefing addressed by
MASSOB’s Director of Information,
Edeson Samuel and the Secretary
General, Ugwuoke Ibem Ugwuoke, they
insisted that nobody had the mandate
of either the MASSOB or the
Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) to
dialogue with the Federal Government.
They, therefore, maintained that any
fruitful dialogue on Biafra must be led
by the detained IPOB leader, Nnamdi
Kanu, even as they warned leaders of
Bilie Human Rights Initiative, Chief
Dozie Ikedife and former governor,
Senator Godswill Akpabio, to desist or
face the full wrath of the groups