Tony Okafor, Awka
The Movement for the Actualisation of the Sovereign State of Biafra on Wednesday said the late Dim Chukwuemeka Odumegwu-Ojukwu would have waged another war against the country should he be alive over the continued detention of the leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, Nnamdi Kanu.
MASSOB leader, Uchenna Madu, stated this in a statement made available to newsmen in Awka, Anambra State, on Wednesday.
He faulted the Nnia Nwodo-led Ohanaeze Ndigbo for not finding time to visit Kanu in prison.
Madu wondered what had kept Nwodo and other Igbo leaders from visiting Kanu.
His statement read in part , “If Governor Fayose of Ekiti State were to be Igbo, he would have visited Nnamdi Kanu in prison, if Dim Chukwuemeka Odumegwu-Ojukwu was still alive, he would have fought for the release of Nnamdi Kanu.”
“If truly these men in the Ohaneze Ndigbo leadership love our people and knowing full well that 90 per cent of the Ndigbo prefers Biafra to staying in Nigeria, what has kept Chief Nnia Nwodo, his executive and Ime Obi from visiting or showing solidarity to Nnamdi Kanu, the most loved Igbo man today?
“What has been keeping the leadership of Ndi Eze in Igbo land from visiting Nnamdi Kanu in prison or his father, a fellow member of the south-east traditional council?
“Why is it that the Igbo National Assembly caucus has never shown any sign of affection to the travails of Nnamdi Kanu and others?
Madu, who said Igbo land was missing the father figure of the late Odumegwu-Ojukwu, asked the Nwodo leadership of Ohanaeze to emulate the likes of the late Senator Uche Chukwumerije, Ikechukwu Obiora, Enyinnaya Abaribe, Joy Emordi, Annie Okonkwo who ‘stormed the court in solidarity during his detention and that of Ralph Uwazuruike and others’.
He added that, “During my three years, six months and two weeks in detention in Suleja, Keffi and Kuje prisons from 2006 to 2009, Senator Uche Chukwumerije and others visited me and others in prison.”
It added, “What is still holding the South-East Christian Association of Nigeria and other religious leaders from showing solidarity to our brother, Nnamdi Kanu, and the others in prisons.”
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