The Indigenous People of Biafra on Wednesday attacked the
All Progressives Grand Alliance for calling its leader, Nnamdi Kanu, a maximum
emperor.
IPOB said it was saddening that Biafrans were rewarded with
victimisation after campaigning for former governor Peter Obi and governors
Rochas Okorocha and Willie Obiano.
APGA had, in a press statement, on Tuesday, signed by its
National Publicity Secretary, Mr Ifeatu
Obi-Okoye, taken a swipe at Kanu and IPOB for allegedly calling for a boycott
of the Anambra November 18 poll.
But IPOB, in a press statement made available to our
correspondent, on Wednesday, in Awka, Anambra State, by its Media and Publicity
Secretary, Emma Powerful, described APGA’s attack on Kanu as childish antics.
It alleged that the APGA-led government in the state had at
several times killed no fewer than 2,000 of its members in Anambra.
The group’s statement said, “We, the Indigenous People of
Biafra, and our leadership view the childish antics of the All Progressives
Grand Alliance as a jealousy-laden, derisive attempt to deflect attention away
from the fact that APGA, as the governing party in Anambra State, has been
responsible for the death of innocent Biafrans numbering over 2,000 since our
formation.
“The two notable instances being the infamous Ezu River
killings and the heinous massacres at Nkpor and Head Bridge, Onitsha,
respectively.”
“It is very unfortunate that APGA, as a political party
preoccupied with feathering the nests of a select few, underestimated the
desire of every genuine Biafran to be liberated from the bondage that Nigeria
has come to represent.
“APGA is motivated by personal greed and self-aggrandisement
unlike IPOB that is purely focused on the liberation of our people and by
extension, other oppressed people in Nigeria.
“The spurious and childish accusation for our leader to stop
parading himself as an emperor smacks more of envy borne out of desperation
than a reasoned assertion,” IPOB said.
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