The leadership crisis rocking the Movement for the Actualisation of Sovereign State of Biafra (MASSOB) deepened yesterday with rival groups trading words.
The Uchenna Madu-led faction told the leader of Biafra Independent Movement (BIM) Ralph Uwazuruike, that his evil plots against Ndigbo would deface him.
Madu alleged that the Federal Government’s plan to hide the identities of witnesses against Nnamdi Kanu was because the leading witness was a popular Igbo man who, according to him, threw caution to the wind because of money and mundane things.
“It will surprise Ndigbo and Biafrans that the leading witness against Nnamdi Kanu is Ralph Uwazuruike. We have all the evidence to prove our points on Uwazuruike’s romance with the oppressors of Ndigbo.
“He will sponsor, support and execute any evil plan that will tarnish or even kill Kanu, just for people to see him as the over-all Biafra leader, but the people are wiser now.
“Initially, the DSS had no evidence against Kanu until Uwazuruike made himself a willing tool of destabilisation.
“For fear of arrest and atrocities he committed against Ndigbo in the name of Biafra, Uwazuruike desperately wants to impress President Muhammadu Buhari to cover his crime against Ndigbo.
“As a former National Director of Information under Uwazuruike, I challenge him to an open debate on all our activities involving Biafra and the Igbo cause anywhere in Igbo land,” Madu said.
But Okechukwu Nwogu, Personal Assistant to Uwazuruike, described the allegations as baseless and the ranting of a sinking man.
“Uchenna Madu can not substantiate his allegations, he is a confused man and his group has no agenda for Ndigbo because they are confused.
“What Uwazuruike wants for Ndigbo is Biafra and other good things that are on the way, people should not take Uchenna Madu and his group serious,” he said.