Ohanaeze Ndigbo, the apex Igbo socio-political group has descrbded in Simon Ekpa, the self-styled protege of the leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, fir declaring himself the Biafran Prime Minister in exile.
Worried by Ekpa’s latest Gambit, Ohanaeze warned the Finland-based agitator to retrace his steps, as he can’t lure the Igbo into a civil war.
Speaking on Tuesday Ohanaeze’s Secretary-General, Okechukwu Isiguzoro accused Ekpa of being an enemy if Ndigbit and working for some paymasters against the Igbo interests, adding that the people have nothing to do with Ekpa’s purported unity government.
“Ohanaeze worldwide views with great distaste and condemnation” the purported declaration by Simon Ekpa, leader of the Ekpa Killer Squad (Autopilots) as a “Biafran Prime Minister in Exile, ” the Ohanaeze scribe said.
“Indeed, this latest episode, an orchestrated attempt by the Finland-based Igbo enemy, who has made himself a ready tool in the destruction of Ala-Igbo can only be blamed on his “deliberate pampering” by the Finnish and Nigerian Governments after detailed reports of heightening terrorism from his Finnish base, including reports from a Finnish journalist, who was in Enugu this February to personally interview families of victims of his terror attacks, which he boldly affirmed on Finnish Television was presented to the Finnish Government.
“Ndigbo has rebutted and renounced in strong terms the formation of a purported Biafra Government in exile, by Simon Ifeanyi Njoku Ekpa who is seen as the greatest enemy of Ndigbo in the last 200 years and one of the most dangerous terrorists in Africa and operating from Finland, if the Nigerian Government fails to check this ugly development, Ekpa’s game-plan is to plunge Nigeria into another undeserved Civil War.”
Isiguzoro disclosed that the Igbo are out to arrest Ekpa by all means to bring him to Justice for his alleged atrocities in Igbo land.
He said: ”Ndigbo are now given a standing order to capture Ekpa dead or alive, he must not be allowed to escape justice as the leader of the most dreadful killer squad in the Southeast whose sole aim is to destabilize the Southeast with his satanic agenda of leading another civil war against Nigeria.
“For the avoidance of doubt, Ndigbo can never be pushed into fighting another war, regardless of the provocations of Ekpa and his paymasters who surprisingly are hurt by the ongoing fraternity existing between Ndigbo and their Yoruba siblings and are hell-bent on thwarting it.
“From declaring a 5 Day sit-at-home in the South-East during the Presidential election to the declaration of Sit-at-home in Lagos, Ekpa has only one agenda- the destruction of Ala-Igbo, to fulfil his paymaster’s political ambitions.
“Indeed, his latest drama is aimed at distracting the Labour Party, LP, Presidential candidate from the pursuit of his Pan-Nigerian mandate at the election tribunal by questioning his belief in Nigeria when his people are pressing on with Biafra and now have a “Prime Minister in exile.”
The foremost pan-Igbo organisation charged the Nigerian and Finnish governments to hasten efforts towards arresting Ekpa and extraditing him to Nigeria for trial for crimes against the people.
