Pro-Biafra Activists Continue Protests In Aba

It was unclear, as at press time yesterday, whether, or not, all the South East governors have been properly briefed of the proposed meeting. But Governor Victor Okezie Ikpeazu of Abia State, who gave the assurance on Sunday that his state would be free of pro-Biafra protests, said he has not been contacted. Mr. Godwin Adindu, the chief press secretary to the governor, said he was “not yet aware of the proposed meeting.”According to the governor, he has met with some security chiefs in Imo to ensure that the impact would not be felt in the state. This is not withstanding the fact that the group a Kanu, the IPOB leader and director of Radio Biafra. Already the governor has begun to make all the necessary contacts to ensure that all those expected to be at the meeting, would be in attendance.

Governor Okorocha had earlier, while taking exception to the pro-Biafra violent protests in some of the South-East states and few other neighbouring states disassociated the governors and leaders in the south-east states from the MASSOB protests describing the whole exercise as embarrassing, disturbing, counter-productive and to a large extent, distracting.

According to Governor Okorocha, the pro-Biafra protests could not be in the interest of the Southeast people but were only sending wrong signals to the rest of Nigerians. And said that it has become increasingly necessary for the governors in the zone, Ohaneze leaders and other stakeholders in the area to meet, to call a spade, a spade.

It is also expected that at the end of the Owerri meeting, the governors and other leaders will take a common position and will also invite the leaders of the pro-Biafra groups for a meeting, to let them know the socio-economic and political implications of their activities including their demand for sovereignty in a united Nigeria.

Governor Okorocha said the governors and leaders in the zone could no longer sit and watch the whole situation degenerating and also noted that the Igbos as a people cannot afford to have its own kind of Boko Haram.He also wondered why the pro-Biafra apologists kept quiet all these years only to resume their violent protests and activities this time and few months after the new administration in the country came on board.According to him, the governors are going to take the bull by the horn in the overall interest of Ndigbo in particular and Nigerians in general.”

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