Voice from the East (VEAST), a group of activists, has flayed Ike Ekweremadu, Deputy Senate President; Chief John Nnia Nwodo, President General of Ohanaeze Ndigbo, as well as South East governors for the proscription of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB).
The group said it was their action that spurred the Federal Government to tag IPOB a terrorist organisation.
Comrade Kindness Jonah, its convener, said in a statemen the Igbo leaders should be blamed for the terrorist tag given to IPOB.
According to him, “We did a critical evaluation of the tag of ‘terrorism’ given to the Indigenous Peoples of Biafra, with a view to discovering who really is responsible between Ike Ekweremadu, Nnia Nwodo’s Ohanaeze Ndigbo and South-East governors on one hand, and Muhammadu Buhari’s Presidency on the other.
“Igbo governors, with Ohanaeze Ndigbo and Ike Ekweremadu, stated officially that IPOB is dangerous, and is forbidden. What is the difference between a terrorist and a forbidden person? What is the difference between a dangerous person and a terrorist?”
It also said: “We wondered why Arewa Consultative Forum, with its Council of Elders, did not proscribe Arewa Youths when they gave Igbo quit notice in all the northern states.
“Why have Sokoto Caliphate with its Sultan, alongside Ango Abdullahi, Paul Unongo, Sule Gambari, Emir of Kano, Emir of Fika, Emir of Gwandu, Emir of Zauzzau and the host of other Emirs and leaders of Islamic North, not declare Fulani herdsmen terrorist group, which they really are, despite the undeniable bloodletting they perpetrate? Why do they protect Fulani herdsmen?”
“The rush with which Nnia Nwodo, Ike Ekweremadu and Eastern governors used to proscribe IPOB, despite the glaring fact that they never killed anybody, shows that these Igbo are a bunch of bought-overs and Islamic stooges and a horde of sellouts on Igbo cause and course.”
