The Movement for the Actualization of the Sovereign State of Biafra, MASSOB, has warned a former Minister of Defence, Gen. Theophilus Y. Danjuma and the Oba of Lagos, Oba Rilwan Akiolu, to stop making provocative comments against the Igbos.
A statement issued by MASSOB leader, Chief Ralph Uwazuruike, said the group views statements by the duo as too critical of the Southeast region.
Chief Uwazuruike was reacting to a statement credited to Gen. Danjuma that the Nigerian /Biafran Civil war was prolonged because the Biafran warlord, late Dim. Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu, did not concede victory when Enugu fell.
Uwazuruike, who spoke through the Nnewi North Regional Administrator, Emmanuel Omenka, said Gen. Yakubu Gowon refused to abide by the Aburi Accord because people like Gen. Danjuma advised him not to, thereby prolonging the war and caused the blood flow
“He (Danjuma) has been insulting Ojukwu, what is the concern of Ojukwu in the conceding of victory to General Mohammadu Buahri (rtd) by President Goodluck Jonathan”. “If Danjuma and his cohorts did not support Gowon, the war would have been averted”, he declared.
Reacting to comments by the Oba of Lagos, Rilwan Akiolu, that Igbos in Lagos would perish in the Lagoon within seven days if they failed to vote for the All Progressive Congress, APC, gubernatorial candidate, MASSOB reiterated that the Oba’s threat was that of a dreaming man.
“The threat is null and void and of no effect because the Oba has no such power to threaten the Igboman”, he stated.
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