Ohaneze Awka Summit Is Fraud – IPOB

The Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) has described the one-item restructuring summit by the Ohanaeze Ndigbo slated for Monday, May 21 as fraud against Igbo interest.

IPOB claimed on Saturday in a statement by its spokesman, Emma Powerful, as “battle between good and evil, light versus darkness.

“On Monday the 21st of May 2018 at Ekwueme Square in Awka, the long suffering down trodden people of the East will rise up to say enough is enough. Our 50 years of Fulani captivity, aided and abated by Ohaneze Ndigbo will finally come to an end. All agents of darkness and iniquity with red caps, recruited by the caliphate immediately after the war in 1970 to serve their interest and enslave Igboland, will be exposed.”

While the leadership of the Ohaneze has dismissed IPOB’s claim and assured delegates of adequate security, the IPOB said the summit is meant to achieve three objectives: To seek to influence the media in Lagos and Abuja to report them favorably. We also know that Aso Rock media compliance and enforcement unit under a certain Brigadier of Arewa extraction has been putting pressure on some media outlets, without much success, to report prepared speeches by Nnia Nwodo and Chukwuma Soludo even if they are not read.

“We are also aware of their plans to hire some Hausa/Fulani youths from Ebonyi State and Obiano’s political thugs to attend the event in Ohaneze Youth Congress OYI uniform to provide them additional security. Dave Umahi, Okezie Ikpeazu and Willie Obiano promised to supply the majority of these street urchins. These hired thugs will be paid a paltry 2,000 Naira each whereas Aso Rock budgeted and gave Ohaneze Ndigbo 25,000 for each thug they can manage to bus to the event.

“Their last and final strategy, upon which all their hope rests is to prevent IPOB from getting to the venue or entering Anambra State altogether. Nnia Nwodo is presently in Onitsha not Awka. IPOB Intelligence unit has assured that he will soon be located and his hotel made public.”

The proscribed group stressed that “if Ohaneze Ndigbo is genuinely loved by the people, why would they rely on Hausa/Fulani soldiers and hired thugs to defend them from the same people they claim they are representing. Such hypocritical stance is the reason why Ohaneze Ndigbo is bad for our people, bad for our survival and bad for generations unborn. They say one thing but do another.”