Factional Leader of the Movement for the Actualisation of the Sovereign State of Biafra (MASSOB), Ralph Uwazurike, yesterday said activities of Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) were contrary to the rule of engagement of the Biafra struggle.
Uwazurike, who expressed the view in Owerri warned that unless hands were on deck, the activities of the IPOB leader, Mr Nnamdi Kanu, may lead to an unplanned war contrary to the primary objective of the Biafra struggle.
He said the interest of the Biafra movement was to secure the interest, lives and property of Igbo people and not to start another war. Uwazurike said Kanu’s major interest was to destroy the agenda of MASSOB, saying that the hallmark of any freedom fighter was to submit to being arrested.
The MASSOB leader, who expressed apprehension on IPOB’s activities, blamed the federal government for Kanu’s popularity, insisting that “if the government had ignored Kanu, the situation would not have escalated.’’ He, however, called on Igbo leaders to condemn the activities of IPOB as it had no agenda.
He said: “A real freedom fighter submits to arrest but Kanu has told his members to burn down the country if he is re-arrested, a true indication that he was paid to destabilise MASSOB. “The IPOB has no agenda and I advise Igbo leaders to condemn its activities.
“Nnamdi Kanu has no agenda and he is only thriving on the relevance given to him by the government. “I recruited him and I know his capacities and he is not a leader. “I have 25 steps towards actualising Biafra and Kanu does not have even one agenda.”
In Onitsha, Uwazuirike assured his members to discountenance threat by IPOB that there would not be an election in Anambra come November 18, describing it as an empty threat as no group was capable to stop the election.
He said he and MASSOB members would resist any attempt by anybody or group under any guise to truncate the Anambra State governorship election, urging the Anambra electorate and Biafrans in the state to work towards a free, fair and credible election on November 18.
