The
Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) has accused President Muhammadu Buhari and
the All Progressives Congress (APC) of shielding and supporting former governor
of Rivers State and Minister of Transport, Rotimi Amaechi for allegedly
inducing the judges to deliver election cases in favour of the party in some
states.
The
group said Amaechi’s action, as
reported, is corruption of the highest order and wondered why the president is
shielding him and others.
A
statement by IPOB media and publicity
secretary, Mr. Emma Powerful described APC as “a group of corrupt cliques who
are bent to ruin the country” and wondered why government is “still appointing
alleged corrupt people while there are good and honest people in Nigeria.”
Meanwhile,
members of Chief Ralph Uwazuruike-led Movement for the Actualisation of
Sovereign State of Biafra (MASSOB) and Biafran Independent Movement (BIM),
yesterday, told the Federal Government to let Biafrans have an independent
state of Biafra, in the interest of peace.
Uwazuruike,
who spoke through the Anambra South Regional Director, Chief Arinze Igbani
during commissioning of a zonal office in Uga community, Aguata Local
Government Area, said there is no going back in the struggle.
Igbani
said Biafran actualisation has reached its last bus stop and they are fully
prepared to take over the leadership of the Biafran Republic, hence, the
establishment of all the strongholds of the Biafran government.
He
said various offices of MASSOB/BIM are being re-opened across the South East
while “ministries of Transport and Agriculture, in Biafran Republic, are fully
operational.
“We
want to ensure food sufficiency in Biafranland and all ingredients of
mechanised agriculture have been put in place towards achieving this goal. We
are forging ahead in the struggle until the last day of victory,” he stated.
Also
speaking, an elder in council, Revd. Linus Ifeanyi Iroanya said the work of the struggle will take
another strong shape with the establishment of regional offices.
He
condemned a crackdown on MASSOB members by security agencies and added that the
more they oppressed members for agitating, the more they will continue to rise.
Iroanya
described the MASSOB-BIM struggle as “a mass movement founded on truth, while
the blood of all martyrs shed by the coercive government agents have watered
the seed of the struggle and made it an everlasting movement.”
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