Chidi Samuel || The late Biafran war hero, Dim Chukwuemeka Odimegwu Ojukwu would have instigated a second civil war over the continued detention of Nnamdi Kanu if he was still alive, the Movement for the Actualisation of the Sovereign State of Biafra said on Wednesday in a statement.
Uchenna Madu, the factional leader of MASSOB, in the statement, also carpeted the newly inaugurated leadership of Ohaneze Ndigbo lead by Chief Nnia Nwodo for their inability to visit the incarcerated IPOB leader at Kuje Prisons, Abuja.
According to Madu, “If truly these men in Ohaneze Ndigbo leadership love our people knowing fully well that 90 percent of Ndigbo prefers Biafra to staying in Nigeria, what has kept Chief Nnia Nwodo, his executive and Ime Obi from visiting or showing solidarity to Nnamdi Kanu, the most loved Igbo man today?
“What has been keeping the leadership of Ndi Eze in Igbo land from visiting Nnamdi Kanu in prison or his father, a fellow member of the south-east traditional council?
“ Why is it that Igbo National Assembly caucus has never shown any sign of affection to the travails of Nnamdi Kanu and others?”
Madu, therefore, urged the Nwodo leadership of Ohanaeze to emulate the likes of late Senators Uche Chukwumerije, Ikechukwu Obiora, Enyinnaya Abaribe, Joy Emodi, Annie Okonkwo who stood by him, Uwazuruike and other Massob leaders during their inceration by the Government of President Obasanjo.
“During my three years, six months and two weeks detention in Suleja, Keffi and Kuje prisons from 2006 to 2009, Senator Uche Chukwumerije and others severally visited me and others in prison”.
“What is still holding the Southeast CAN and other Religious leaders from showing solidarity to our brother, Nnamdi Kanu and others in prisons.
“If Gov Fayose of Ekiti state were to be Igbo, he would have visited Nnamdi Kanu in prison, if Dim Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu is still alive, he would have fought for the release of Nnamdi Kanu,” he queried.