The
Indigenous People of Biafra on Wednesday attacked the All Progressives Grand
Alliance for calling its leader, Nnamdi Kanu, a maximum emperor.
IPOB said it
was saddening that Biafrans were rewarded with victimisation after campaigning
for former governor Peter Obi and governors Rochas Okorocha and Willie Obiano.
APGA had, in
a press statement, on Tuesday, signed by its National Publicity Secretary, Mr Ifeatu Obi-Okoye, taken a swipe
at Kanu and IPOB for allegedly calling for a boycott of the Anambra November 18 poll.
But IPOB, in
a press statement made available to our correspondent, on Wednesday, in Awka,
Anambra State, by its Media and Publicity Secretary, Emma Powerful, described
APGA’s attack on Kanu as childish antics.
It alleged
that the APGA-led government in the state had at several times killed no fewer
than 2,000 of its members in Anambra.
The group’s
statement said, “We, the Indigenous People of Biafra, and our leadership view
the childish antics of the All Progressives Grand Alliance as a jealousy-laden,
derisive attempt to deflect attention away from the fact that APGA, as the
governing party in Anambra State, has been responsible for the death of
innocent Biafrans numbering over 2,000 since our formation.
“The two
notable instances being the infamous Ezu River killings and the heinous
massacres at Nkpor and Head Bridge, Onitsha, respectively.”
“It is very
unfortunate that APGA, as a political party preoccupied with feathering the
nests of a select few, underestimated the desire of every genuine Biafran to be
liberated from the bondage that Nigeria has come to represent.
“APGA is
motivated by personal greed and self-aggrandisement unlike IPOB that is purely
focused on the liberation of our people and by extension, other oppressed
people in Nigeria.
“The
spurious and childish accusation for our leader to stop parading himself as an
emperor smacks more of envy borne out of desperation than a reasoned
assertion,” IPOB said.
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