The Movement for the Actualisation of the Sovereign State of Biafra (MASSOB) has said it will begin “a native internal revolution against Igbo leaders” if they fail to secure the release of Radio Biafra’s director Nnamdi Kanu and other Biafran activists in detention. The movement was reacting to the visit of Southeast senators to President Muhammadu Buhari.
A statement by Innocent Igbo, the Personal Assistant on Media and Publicity to MASSOB leader, Uchenna Madu, said the organisation “wishes to reveal the very reason Igbo senators, led by Deputy Senate President Ike Ekweremadu and Igbo caucus leader, Enyinnaya Abaribe, visited President Buhari concerning the political, economic and infrastructural decay in Ndigbo land in Nigeria, including the release of Mazi Nnamdi Kanu and other pro-Biafra agitators in Nigerian prisons”.
It added: “This sudden political move of Igbo senators to President Buhari is a welcome development, even though President Buhari may not easily hearken to their pleas because of his anti-Igbo policies.”
MASSOB claimed that “Igbo senators suddenly woke up because of our leader’s ultimatum during the celebration of 83rd posthumous birthday of Dim Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu (Eze Igbo Gburugburu) at MASSOB headquarters at Okwe on November 4 that if Igbo political, religious, traditional, economical and opinion leaders fail to rise up against the oppressions, subjections and anti-Igbo policies of President Buhari against Ndigbo and Igbo land, including the bias detention of our brother,