MASSOB scolds Ohaneze: Stop demanding political privileges from Buhari

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By Our Reporter on September 9, 2015 National

(AWKA)
Top Igbo nationalist organization, Ohaneze Ndigbo, and other groups agitating for positions for Igbo representation in the President Muhammadu Buhari administration were yesterday warned to desist from making demands for political privileges from the President.
A faction of the Movement for the Actualization of the Sovereign State of Biafra (MASSOB), an Igbo separatist organization, which gave the warning said it was speaking to the Ohaneze Youth Council, Igbo political elites, traditional and teligious leaders in Igboland.
In a statement signed by the National Director of Information of the Factional MASSOB, Uchenna Madu, the group stated that Mr. Festus Keyamo was right when he described the Igbo leaders and socio-political groups demanding for the Office of Secretary to the Federal Government (SGF) as “noise makers”.
The statement reads in part:

“Even though President Buhari has a personal dislike and animosity against Biafrans, Ndigbo are the architect of their political humiliation in President Buhari’s administration because of their individual selfishness, personal ego and lust for money.
“President Buhari is very, very right in relegating Ndigbo to their current political status in Nigerian governance. Some Igbo political, traditional, religious, market and youth leaders blindly bagged their eggs of political and economical future in Nigeria in a fragile, demoralized and unsteady leader called Jonathan Goodluck, who glaringly crashed heavily with the Igbo political and economic eggs.”

Insisting that President Buhari was only paying Ndigbo back in their own coin for not voting for him and his party, the Factional MASSOB queried:

“Why have Chief Igariwe (Ohaneze PG), Chief Ralph Uwazuruike (factional MASSOB leader), Chief Ifeanyi Uba (TAN National Coordinator), Eze Cletus Ilomuanya (Sout-East chairman of Igbo Traditional Rulers), Chief Okwudili Ezenwankwo (South-East chairman of Market leaders), Chief T. Ahamefula Orji and Mr. Peter Obi (South-East Chief/Deputy Chief Campaigners of Goodluck Jonathan’s re-election), Chief Arthur Eze (Chief financial supporter of Goodluck Jonathan), South-East CAN/PFN leaders, hundreds of Igbo Socio-political groups and other Igbo leaders suddenly shut up their selfish political mouths since the heavy crash of Goodluck Jonathan? These selfish Igbo men are the real enemies of Ndigbo not President Buhari.
“These Igbo men openly and shamefully campaigned for Goodluck Jonathan who politically deceived Ndigbo, even Chief Ralph Uwazuruike (Factional MASSOB leader) the self-acclaimed agitator/liberator of Biafra, shamefully and openly campaigned for Goodluck Jonathan to continue in office as Nigerian President till 2019, while impoverished MASSOB members and Ndigbo earnestly wanted [to establish]Biafra before 2015 as Nigeria Amalgamation [reached its centenary] in 2014. Partisan politics has diminished Ohaneze Ndigbo.
“The silence of these selfish Igbo political leaders since President Buhari’s administration is an open acceptance of political defeat and self-condemnation associated with political inferiority complex.”

The statement concluded:

“Some Igbo political, traditional, religious and economic leaders will continue to blindly wallop in Nigeria’s political wilderness until they rediscover the courage of Ojukwuism as enshrined in the spirit of Biafran consciousness. The unrelenting and undeterred spirit of no surrender, no retreat.”