He has no powers to stop elections
The Movement for the Actualisation of Sovereign State of Biafra (MASSOB), has described as unrealistic the call by the leader of IPOB, Nnamdi Kanu , to Ndigbo to boycott the on coming general elections .
MASSOB, leader ,Chief Ralph Uwazurike , urged the people of Biafra to discountenance the call and join in the processes and the elections and elect their leaders that would represent them .
He warned that if Ndigbo should boycott the elections, a president must emerge in Nigeria and heaven would not fall .
Uwazurike who spoke Monday in Owerri, Imo State, said such call by Kanu was laughable as he did not have control of election in Nigeria, accusing him of inciting his members into a venture that would lead to the death of innocent Igbo’s again.
Uwazurike advised Ndigbo not to listen to Kanu as ” .” he is not worth dying for as listening to him would cause serious damage to the peo”.
Kanu who went into hiding when the Federal Government unleashed the Army ‘ Operation Python Dance ‘ on him and his followers, recently resurfaced in Israel and announced on Sunday in a broadcast that there would be no election in South-East in 2019.
He also said he would return soon to Nigeria to revive the agitation for Biafra independence.
Uwazuruike, in a swift reaction, said Nnamdi Kanu was not worth dying for because he was not fighting for the interest of the people.
“No election, no census, referendum and sit-at home were among MASSOB major agenda in 2004 which we latter dropped because we discovered that it cannot be realised and it will affect our people most.
“Nnamdi Kanu, out of ignorance, called for a boycott of Anambra election last year and the election held, now that he is calling for another boycott, how does he want to achieve that,” he said.
He alleged that Kanu was recruited to destabilise activities of MASSOB, adding that why he resurfaced again was to use the IPOB’s platform to make money for his selfish gain.
“A lot of his members were killed last year and he left them and ran away, a real freedom fighter does not fear death rather he donates his life for the struggle.
“He should be disregarded because all his activities from his arrest to his release and finally his travel to Israel were stage-managed so “he is fake”, he said.
According to Uwazuruike, without the vote of South-East, a president can emerge in Nigeria, arguing that it would make no meaning for the South-East to boycott 2019 election.
Uwazuruike challenged Kanu to explain how he travelled to Israel after his international passport was seized by the Federal Government before his release.
” Nigerians want to know who took him to the airport and how he was checked in without his passport if it was not stage-managed,” he said.
