The Ugboani of Okpanam, His Royal Highness, Michael Mbanefo Ogbolu, yesterday warned the leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Nnamdi Kanu and his supporters to spare his kingdom of the ongoing campaign for a sovereign state of Biafra.
The monarch, who recalled that the former leader of the agitation, late Chief Emeka Odimegwu- Ojukwu, failed the kingdom when one of the Biafran warlords, late Major Chukwuma Kaduna Nzeogwu died, wondering why Kanu wanted to visit his kingdom.
Kanu had allegedly sent emissaries to the monarch to notify him of his proposed visit to his kingdom to hold a rally to campaign for Biafra’s actualisation.
But the monarch, who expressed displeasure at the manner the original agitators for Biafra dumped Nzeogwu before and after his death in Okpanam, Oshimili North Local Government Area of the state, urged Kanu and his teeming supporters to steer-clear of his kingdom.
He said: “It was only the former President, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo that participated actively in the burial ceremony of Nzeogwu. Odimegwu- Ojukwu neither visited him nor did anything to help his family until his death.
So, is it now that magic will be done?” The monarch threw his weight behind the clamour for restructuring the polity, but disassociated himself from any form of violent means in achieving it.
