Leader of the Movement for the Actualisation of the Sovereign State of Biafra (MASSOB), Anambra South Senatorial zone, Mrs Virginia Ubazuonu has demanded an apology from the National Chairman of the All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA), Chief Victor Umeh, over alleged disparaging comments he made insinuating that Chief Ralph Uwazuruike had lost focus in the pursuit of Biafran agenda.
Speaking in Nnewi, Anambra State, Mrs. Ubazuonu said the alleged statements were meant to put MASSOB and its struggle in disarray.
She, however, maintained that despite insinuations in some quarters, Uwazuruike was still in control of millions of MASSOB loyalists, who were still patriotic and focused in the struggle to actualise the sovereign state of Biafra.
According to the MASSOB woman leader, the organisation had international repute and believed in non-violence but should not be relegated to the background, adding that Uwazuruike did not deserve any insult from any quarter “as he has suffered so much to emancipate the Igbo including going to jail for the sake of Biafra”.
She said Uwazuruike had distinguished himself as a true Igbo leader as he recently chartered 30 luxury buses, to bring back home the Igbos resident in the northern part of Nigeria to save them from being killed by Boko Haram insurgents and that he also provided comfortable accommodation for them at Okwe near Okigwe in Imo State.
“Now, MASSOB members and their regional leaders are building the Ojukwu Memorial Center with Chief Ralph Uwazuruike doing the magic”, she said.
“That project is supposed to be an APGA project or all the States in the South-East but Umeh left it to Uwazuruike. Uwazuruike, again is building more than twenty thousand tombs in Okwe for Biafran civil war dead heroes. So, nobody has the right to insult Uwazuruike”, Ubazuonu added.
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