A faction in the movement for the Actualisation of the Sovereign State of Biafra (MASSOB) is poised to sack Ralph Uwazurike as its leader and replace him with another in an election it is presently organising.
This is against the back drop of Uwazurikes submissions that the Director of Radio Biafra, Nnamdi Kanu is on his own and do not enjoy the support of MASSOB.
Rising from a meeting in Owerri, the faction being midwife by MASSOB Director of information, comrade Uchenna Madu passed a vote of no confidence on Uwazurike describing him as a sellout.
It equally announced its alliance with the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) that is behind the Radio Biafra Propaganda group insisting that the arrest of Nnamdi Kanu and its members that took part in the last Tuesday protest is a display of tyranny by the Nigerian government.
The group further petitioned the United Nations alleging police brutality and high handedness against the fundamental human rights of its members to express their views.
According to Madu, the international community has been put on notice about the clamp down on their struggle by the Nigerian government. “It is important to note that our petitions are with the United Nations and we in the same petition passed a vote of no confidence on our defected leader chief Ralph Uwazurike due to his shameless positions on our struggle for total emancipation.”
“Uwazurike has drastically deviated from Biafra struggle which was evidently shown in his meeting with Major Hamza Al-Mustapha, Alhaji Asari Dokubo, Fredrick Fasheun of OPC, Alhaji Yerima of Arewa Youth congress and Alhaji Sani Abacha at Uwazurike’s Owerri house in September 2013 for signing of agreement on Nigeria’s Unity which openly resulted in Uwazurike’s campaign for Goodluck Jonathan’s election and his factional MASSOB protest against the then Chairman of Independent National Electoral commission (INEC) Professor Atahiru Jega.”
Madu further confirmed that MASSOB would be holding its general election to enthrone a new leader for the body next month insisting that Uwazurike has become history in the present circumstance.
“Our new leader would be elected next month and you will be there to witness the election. We cannot continue to salvage the selfish interest of one man in the name of Biafra’s emancipation.”
Reacting to the arrest of the IPOB members, Madu contended that “We condemn the cowardly arrest but also accept the fact that it is part of nonviolent struggle. No agitation is complete without arrest, detention and prosecution. It shape the minds of the activists drawing sympathy from the internal and external observers.”
“It also shows that Biafra agitation has become a factor of reckoning in Nigeria. These series of arrest will cause more diplomatic harm on Nigeria’s image than good. We demand for their immediate release.”
