•Vows to stop restructuring summit scheduled for Awka
Geoffrey Anyanwu, Awka
The Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) has vowed that the planed Ohanaeze Ndigbo Restructuring Nigeria Summit in Awka, the Anambra State capital, on May 21, will only hold with the delegates sitting on the blood of all IPOB family members.
Warning Chief John Nnia Nwodo-led Ohanaeze, for the umpteenth time, to shelve the summit, IPOB said it would meet the apex Igbo organisation and the Nigerian soldiers arranging to kill its members, head-on in Awka, if it defies its warning.
Consequently, it has directed all IPOB families to mobilise to storm, not just Ekwueme Square venue of the summit, but to take over the whole of Anambra State from all directions on the said May 21.
IPOB Media and Publicity Secretary, Emma Powerful, in a statement in Awka, said by insisting on holding the summit on May 21, Ohanaeze has chosen that date as the day it would “kill Biafrans, once again, in our land.”
“Nnia Nwodo has managed to convince himself and some Igbo politicians to make us loyal servants of Fulani caliphate and entrench irreversible Arewa Islamic hegemony in Igbo parts of Biafraland forever.
“These are the same people who instigated Operation Python Dance II that led to the murder of hundreds of IPOB youths, due to their hatred for Biafra and everything Nnamdi Kanu stood for. These traitors cannot be allowed to celebrate their betrayal of our freedom using the cover of a summit.
“History will record May 21, 2018, as the day traitors, saboteurs, slaves and quislings lost their stranglehold on the destiny of our people.
“It is clear that other ethnic nationalities have observed and realised that there is no hope for Nigeria. But, Ohanaeze Ndigbo as always, have chosen the way of self-centered politics like the late Dr. Nnamdi Azikiwe, in pushing the perverse notion of sustaining the same one Nigeria that is responsible for the death of millions of our people.
“The same mistakes of the past are being repeated by Nwodo and his gang. Azikiwe’s politics of one Nigeria is what put us in the mess we are in today. We have been reduced to lower than fourth class citizens, hated and despised by all, for no other reason than our God given hard work and ingenuity. The most courageous and intelligent black race in the world has been reduced to a group of selfish petty traders engrossed in the art of buying and selling to the detriment of their survival.
“We IPOB family members cannot afford to allow the future of unborn generations to be mortgaged by a greedy, shortsighted Ohanaeze Ndigbo through whom Fulani caliphate has been exercising undue control over our lives for years.”