The
conflict between Biafra agitators and the politician in the Southeast
happened at Odoekpe, Ogbaru Local Government Area of the state.
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A group of youths suspected to be members of the Indigenous People
of Biafra on Friday, allegedly disrupted a church function attended by a
governorship aspirant in Anambra State on the platform of the
Progressives Peoples Alliance, Mr. Godwin Ezeemo.
The conflict, it was gathered, happened at Odoekpe, Ogbaru Local Government Area of the state.
The Biafra secessionist group had recently in a statement by its
Media and Publicity Secretary, Emma Powerful, insisted that the November
18 poll in Anambra would not hold.
It said Anambra State as the flagship of Igbo held a strategic
position in the Biafra struggle that any mistake made in handling
Anambra affair in the Biafra cause would have a ripple effect.
The statement said, “Our leader, Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, is very
strategic and methodical in his approach to restore Biafra; therefore
every step IPOB takes, regardless of its impact, is designed to bring
Biafra closer.
“Anambra election boycott will benefit not just Biafrans but other component ethnic nationalities in Nigeria as well,” he said.
In the Friday incident, the IPOB youths disrupted the campaign team
of the PPA governorship aspirant that went to Ogbaru to worship at
God’s Own Pentecostal Church.
The assailants who brandished Biafra flags and singing Biafran
songs besieged the worship centre, asking the PPA flag bearer and his
entourage to desist from addressing the congregation and leave their
place.
One of them said, “Many politicians have been lying to us and used us for so long ; we don’t need them again.
“Our youths are jobless, our roads are bad. We want our freedom and we do not want all these politicians here anymore,” he raged.
However, Ezeemo continued to address the congregation amid the confusion that ensued.
He said “I’m a Biafran in practice given that I brought down all my investments to my homeland.
“I can understand the agitation of these youths. We have been
lied to for so long by these politicians but I left Britain to come back
home so that I can make things right. Just give me a chance, I will not
let you down.”
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