IPOB’s Members Attack on Ekweremadu Unjustified And Unnecessary – Southeast Governors

The Southeast Governors Forum on Sunday decried the attack on the former Deputy President of the Senate, Ike Ekweremadu, by some alleged members of the proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) at an Igbo summit in Nuremberg, Germany.

Chairman of the South East Governors’ Forum, who is also the governor of Ebonyi state, David Umahi described the attack as totally unjustified and unnecessary.

Governor Umahi, who made the position of the Forum know in a statement issued by his Chief Press Secretary, Emmanuel Uzor, noted that the issue of insecurity in the Southeast, cited by the group as its reason, is not peculiar to the zone.

Governor Umahi specifically said that insecurity is a national issue, which rested squarely on the Federal Government’s control, adding that the governors of the Southeast had no issues with IPOB to warrant the group’s threat to attack them anywhere abroad.

He also described the IPOD’s threat as “empty,” stressing that the group lacked the power to track the governors around the globe.

Umahi further said; “They have no spread and power to do so, because they cannot see any governor to attack. IPOB’s directive to its members to attack the Southeast governors would add no value toward the realisation of the agitation for Biafra.

“The IPOB members abroad should come home and settle any issues they hold against the governors, instead of doing so in a foreign land. Attacking governors in a foreign land is a wild goose chase. We love the IPOB members because they are our children,” he stated.

The Chiarman of the Southeast Governors’ Forum said that IPOB cannot achieve Biafra alone except it collaborates with all the critical stakeholders, including the governors.

According to him; “They don’t need to attack the governors to achieve Biafra and we warn them not to allow political opportunists to use them to destroy the zone.”