The Movement for the Actualisation of the Sovereign State
of Biafra has disagreed with the National Chairman of the All Progressives
Congress, Chief John Odigie-Oyegun, over his
statement on Igbo presidency.
Odigie-Oyegun
had, last week in Enugu, while calling on the people of the South-East to vote
for the APC, said the party would guarantee their quest for an Igbo president.
But MASSOB’s National Director of Information, Mr. Sunday Okereafor, described
Odigie-Oyegun’s statement as laughable, stating that the Igbo were not
interested in Nigeria’s presidency.
Okereafor, who spoke with The PUNCH in
a telephone interview on Thursday, explained that MASSOB was neither interested
in the APC nor the Peoples Democratic Party, adding that the movement’s
struggle was for the Igbo to have a sovereign nation.
He claimed that Nigeria had never planned to have an Igbo man
or woman as the President of the country, wondering why the APC national
chairman would make such a statement.
Okereafor recalled that former Igbo leader, the late
Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu, and the ex-governor of Abia State, Chief Orji Uzor
Kalu, spent a lot of their resources trying to become the president of the
country to no avail.
He added, “The claim by the APC national chairman that the
party will use Igbo Presidency to finally kill the PDP in the South-East is
laughable. Nigeria has never had Igbo presidency in its agenda. So, Igbo man
can never be President in Nigeria in 500 years.
“The Igbo elite should understand this. MASSOB does not
believe in any political party in Nigeria. We believe in the freedom of Biafra
and not the campaign for the Presidency to come to a person from Igbo
extraction.”
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