The Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) has accused the pan-Igbo socio-cultural organization, Ohanaeze Ndigbo, of betraying and sabotaging Igbo interests.
The group said that Ohanaeze has not achieved any tangible thing that has benefited Igboland, rather it allegedly connived with the perceived enemies of the Ndigbo to proscribed and tag IPOB a terror group, while Fulani herdsmen go about killing innocent citizens.
In a statement by the media and publicity secretary of IPOB, Emma Powerful, the group alleged that Ohanaeze leaders were working for their pockets and not for the interests of Igbo people.
Powerful said: “Ohanaeze Ndigbo has left a destructive trail of blood, betrayal, and sabotage of wider Igbo interest, to the extent that nobody in Nigeria has regard for the honor and dignity of a once-proud race.
Only those born with a deep sense of betrayal, Lagos-Abuja domiciled traitors and fellow collaborators will have respect for Ohanaeze as presently constituted.
“To date, we are yet to come across one person who can confidently point to one tangible achievement of Ohanaeze Ndigbo that benefited the entire people. The truth is, there is none. They work for their pockets and the well-being of their children and relatives and nothing more.
“That IPOB was perversely tagged a terrorist group in the eyes of the laws of Nigeria when Fulani terrorist herdsmen are free to roam and kill at will, is the exclusive making of Ohanaeze Ndigbo and South East governors.
Ohanaeze Ndigbo and South East governors consider IPOB a threat to their livelihood and were determined to accept countless cold-blooded executions of innocent IPOB members in order to prove to their Fulani masters they are good Nigerians.
“Those in doubt as to the true motive behind the formation of Ohanaeze Ndigbo by the caliphate must bear in mind that Ohanaeze has fought and continued to fight anybody with the interest of the masses of the East at heart.
Ohanaeze, in keeping with the template drawn up by the caliphate, once fought Dr. Azikiwe into irrelevance.
“They reduced him from Zik of Africa to mere Owelle of Onitsha, even when Zik realized the errors of his ways during the war and wanted to industrialize the East in the Second Republic.
This same Ohanaeze Ndigbo repeatedly conspired against Ojukwu and crowned his humiliation by denying him a seat on Abacha’s Constituent Assembly.”
