We witnessed the horror of Biafra war – IPOB elders blasts MASSOB, Avengers

– IPOB supreme council reveal they have no alliance with Niger Delta Avengers

– They elders condemned the violent approach of MASSOB and its reported alliance with the militants

– They also urged Nigerians to be patient as better days are coming

The Supreme Council of Elders of Indigenous People Of Biafra (IPOB) has lashed out at their pro-Biafra counterpart, the Movement for the Actualisation of the Sovereign State of Biafra and the Niger Delta Avengers for threatening the country’s peace.

The two groups have claimed allegiance to each other’s activities and vowed to support each other to achieve their goals.

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The Punch reports that IPOB supreme council condemned their activities and said they probably did not witness the Biafra war.

“Preachers of violence might be infants or non-existent during the 30-month Nigerian Civil War.”

Dr. Dozie Ikedife who is the deputy chairman of the supreme council said in Nnewi, Anambra State on Wednesday, June 29 that the claim that some pro-Biafra groups were aligning with the Niger Delta Avengers and other militants group was untrue as such an alliance would turn out to be no good.

He said he witness how millions of Igbos were slaughtered during the civil war and would therefore not support any violent alliance.

He said destroyed properties could be replaced but human lives could not.

“The IPOB group I belong to is governed by the Supreme Council of Elders. There is a faction led by Nnamdi Kanu that abuses the elders, preaches violence and ethnic hatred.

 “We do not believe in that. The MASSOB led by Ralph Uwazuruike from its  inception preaches non-violence based on the  philosophy of the late Indian leader, Mahatma  Ghandi.

“If the militants have been blowing up pipelines, I don’t see how my group that has been following legal and diplomatic process will align with them. We have quite a different philosophy and modus operandi towards the issue of self-determination.

“The two factions of the IPOB and the  two factions of MASSOB are all talking about self-determination of the indigenous people of Biafra. But their approach is not the same.

“The aim may be one but the method differs. We have not and cannot depart from dialogue, legal and diplomatic process and of course you know we are in court with the Federal Government over this issue of self-determination.”

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Ikedife advised the people to be patient in the face of economic hardship and predicted that things would get better.

“It is a worthy sacrifice for the citizen to endure the hard living conditions now and enjoin a better future later.

  “I see the current hardship as darkness before the break of the daylight.

“We have now discovered that the economy was so badly managed before now that it requires some efforts, sacrifice and patience to get it right again.”

 

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