S/South States Are Biafran Territories – MASSOB Leader
S/South States Are Biafran Territories – MASSOB Leader
The people of the Niger Delta area and former eastern region are part of Biafra, and remain committed to the actualization of an independent state of their own, leader of the Movement for the Actualization of the Sovereign States of Biafra, MASSOB, Solomon Chukwu, has said.
The new MASSOB leader also stated that the people of Biafra cannot find peace in Nigeria until the Republic of Biafra is achieved, where there will be limitless freedom to develop their land.
Speaking through MASSOB’s National Director of Information, Sunny Okereafor, Chukwu dismissed reports that the people of South South states like Akwa Ibom, Rivers, Bayelsa and Cross River, are not Biafrans, claiming that the former eastern region has refused to be deceived by what he described as federal government’s divide and rule policy.
According to him,
“If you see the kind of support from the local people of Ugep, Ikom, Ogoja and adjoining areas when we held our meeting there last week at Ugep, you will be shocked. Over 2,000 people registered as MASSOB members at that meeting. In fact, from what we saw at the meeting, the people of Ogoja, Ugep and Ikom are more Biafra than even Ndigbo”.
The MASSOB leader insisted that part of the marginalization of the former eastern region in Nigeria is the continued detention of the leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, Nnamdi Kanu, despite successive court orders, granting him bail, calling on the federal government to release him without delay.
Chukwu, who commended MASSOB’s Regional Administration for Ogoja, Rex Egberebi, for the massive mobilization of members in Ogoja, urged them to insist on the group’s non-violent approach to the struggle, stressing that Biafra would soon be achieved.
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