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From Stanley Uzoaru, Owerri
The Movement for the Actualisation of the Sovereign State of Biafra (MASSOB) has intervened in the escalating rift within the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), calling on all factions to end public hostilities “in the common interest of Biafra struggle.”
In a press statement signed by its National Director of Information, Comrade Edeson Samuel, MASSOB said it was compelled to speak because “Biafra was involved,” despite, ordinarily, not interfering in another group’s internal affairs.
The intervention follows the recent dissolution of IPOB’s Directorate of States (DOS) by Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, which triggered a wave of attacks and counter-attacks among IPOB leaders. Under the leadership of Comrade Uchenna Madu, MASSOB cautioned IPOB to halt what it described as “market dancing emanated from their internal rancour and misunderstanding.”
“Your attacks and counter attacks, allegations and counter allegations are not useful or healthy to the self determination struggle for Biafra actualisation and restoration,” the statement read.
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MASSOB noted that both organisations are “big household names” in the Biafra agitation and warned against actions that “insult and deface” IPOB’s reputation. It urged IPOB leadership to “sheath your sword and work for peaceful resolution of all internal rancour” as one big family.
The group also distanced itself from conferring a “Supreme” status on Kanu. While reaffirming recognition of Kanu as the leader of IPOB, MASSOB said it does not accept a “Supreme Leader” designation.
“There is no official leadership title or attribute called ‘Supreme Leader’ in Biafra land. The leadership title called Supreme is an attribute that belongs to God Almighty only,” MASSOB stated. “Any attempt or connivance or consenting to assume the Supreme leadership title is a direct challenge to God Almighty.”
The group recalled that on June 29, 2017, pro-Biafra organisations, under the Biafra People National Council (BPNC), which included MASSOB, declared Kanu as the “arrowhead of Biafra struggle” not as Supreme Leader.
