From Geoffrey Anyanwu, Enugu
Movement for the Actualisation of the Sovereign State of Biafra (MASSOB) has raised the alarm over an alleged plot to use factional Niger Delta militant leader, Asari Dokubo, and his gangs to attack Ndigbo in Lagos.
MASSOB said, yesterday, that reports from its security intelligence agency showed that the Presidency was planning to use “Asari Dokubo and his criminal terrorist gangs” to carry out the attack, warning that the consequences of such action would be very grave.
In a statement issued yesterday by its National Director of Information, Edeson Samuel, the group said there was evidence of the plot in the personal confession of Dokubo.
“The evidence is clear through the confessional statement of the factional leader of Niger Delta militant, Melford Goodhead, a.k.a Asari Dokubo, where he said he did not attend Tinubu’s inauguration on May 29, 2023 because he was in the streets of Abuja with his men waiting to attack members of Obidient movement whom they thought might disrupt Tinubu’s inauguration,” the group said.
MASSOB asked the Federal Government to immediately arrest Dokubo, interrogate him to ascertain where, how and what he was doing with the AK47 rifle. The group also denied a statement circulating online that MASSOB declared that an Igbo man will never be president of Nigeria until 2039.
“Such insensitive and unguarded statements are not from MASSOB led by our leader, Comrade Uchenna Madu. The said sabotaging statement emanated from the Ralph Uwazuruike led Biafra Independent Movement (BIM) not MASSOB.
“MASSOB also demand immediate arrest of, Melford Goodhead Dokubo, also known as Alhaji Asari Dokubo, for openly brandishing an AK47 rifle, threatening to kill Ndigbo after visiting Alhaji Bola Ahmed Tinubu in Aso Villa.
“MASSOB’s principle of non violence must not be taken for weakling because no group or tribe has monopoly on violence. Nnamdi Kanu was arrested and detained because he is agitating for the emancipation of the people of Biafra, but a criminal, a kidnapper and pipeline vandal, who killed many of Nigerian security agents is brandishing AK-47 rifle, and the same government turned deaf ear and blind eyes on him,” the group said.