Ralph Uwazuruike, leader of the
Movement for the Actualisation of the Sovereign State of Biafra (MASSOB), has
told the Igbo to ignore the things Nnamdi Kanu, leader of Independent People of
Biafra (IPOB) said on Sunday.
Uwazuruike, who spoke in Owerri,
Imo state on Monday, said Kanu’s directive to the Igbo to boycott the 2019
elections except there is a referendum, is for his selfish interest.
Kanu resurfaced in Jerusalem,
Israel after 13 months’ absence, saying he would come back to Nigeria to
oversee the emergence of Biafra.
“I decree that there is no longer
South East or South South Nigeria, it shall be known as Biafra, without
referendum nothing will happen in Nigeria. IPOB will not participate in any
election and that position will never change,” Kanu had said.
But Uwazuruike said Kanu
reappeared because of the 2019 elections “so as to deceive the people and mop
up money for himself.
He told the Igbo that Kanu was
only deceiving them, adding that it is to their detriment if they do not vote.
“Last time, he carried a campaign
that there wouldn’t be election in Anambra state and what eventually happened
in the end?” Uwazuruike asked.
“Today, he has started again. He
is back again after several months, because election is just by the corner, so
as to deceive the people and mop up money for himself as the IPOB leader and in
the name of fighting for the realisation of Biafra independence.
“That he ran away after a while
and reappeared during the electioneering period is deceitful.
“The issue of no election is a
constitutional matter. Kanu does not have the powers to say that election can
never take place in the south-east.
“The truth is that in the
south-east, we have only five states and what a presidential candidate, for
example, only needs to win his or her election is two-thirds majority vote.
“If the five states out of the 36
states, including the FCT, do not vote and 31 states vote, two-thirds majority
would still be gotten. The president then has the powers to appoint anybody to
be in charge of the other five states who do not vote. This is, therefore,
politically detrimental to Ndigbo.
“These are things some Igbo
people do not know. Kanu has started his campaign to cause more confusion for
our people, which I call campaign of calumny and deceit. He is being used to destabilise
Ndigbo towards gaining the independence of Biafra.”
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