Ohanaeze Ndigbo: MASSOB spits fire…Warns S’East governors

The new Igbo leader and leader of the Movement for the Actualisation of the Sovereign State of Biafra (MASSOB), Chief Ralph Uwazuruike has warned the Ebonyi State Governor, Chief Martin Elechi, to desist from distracting Ndigbo trying to conduct another election in Ohanaeze Ndigbo. Uwazuruike said Ndigbo would no longer allow the governors whom he described as garrulous to continue to destroy their unity by sacrificing the fortune of the people on the altar of sheer greed and personal political aggrandisement. He described as distraction the action of Ebonyi State Government to start talking about election of the president general and national officers of the apex Igbo socio-cultural organisation when the election had been contested and won. “Ohanaeze Ndigbo has been conducted and completed and the immediate past president generals, including Justice Eze Ozobu and Amb. Ralph Uwechue, among other prominent Igbo sons, were in attendance and Chief Garry Igariwey was elected unopposed when his compatriots from Ebonyi State stepped down for him. “It is quite unfortunate that the governor is planning another election and as Igbo leader, I am warning him that Ndigbo shall no longer continue to suffer in the hands of the governors.
“Ohanaeze Ndigbo is not an appendage of the state governors and MASSOB has come out to identify with Ohanaeze Ndigbo. There will be no other election of Ohanaeze Ndigbo anywhere, any place and anytime because the election has been conducted last Saturday in Enugu.” Uwazuruike also warned that Ndigbo would resist any incursion from the South-east governors or any government to drag its apex socio-cultural organisation into politics of selfishness, adding that, “for very long now, the governors had used Ohanaeze Ndigbo to achieve their selfish aims but I am saying that from henceforth, we will not tolerate any form of distraction from any governor.”