Umahi to MASSOB, IPOB: Don’t drag Igbos into fresh war

Ebonyi State Governor, Chief Dave Umahi yesterday urged the Movement for Actualisation of Sovereign State of Biafra (MASSOB) and Indigenous People of Biafra to wait for the outcome of South-East governors and stakeholders’ resolution over their protests which have been tabled before President Muhammadu Buhari.

Addressing leaders of Abakpa Main Market Traders Association who paid him a courtesy call at Government House in Abakaliki, Umahi said the South-East governors have listened to the complaints of the Biafra agitators and had decided to discuss them with the President.

“We have listened to the complaints of the boys. There is no way anybody could say that what they are saying is completely outside the truth, but just like husband and wife, you must have a way of getting along through dialogue. “The governors of the South-East have taken up their matter with Mr. President and I believe that we don’t need another war in this country.

I want to plead with you to encourage whoever is involved that we have taken up the matter and we will do everything possible to make sure that their feelings are addressed.

“We should not support secession. We should not support demonstrations; we should not support the castigation of our leaders” he said.

While reacting to the speculations in a section of the media that he was set to move to the ruling All Progressives Congress, Governor Umahi restated his resolve to retain his membership of the Peoples Democratic Party. “When I said publicly that Ebonyi people will support Mr. President, they said, we have moved to the APC.

PDP remains our party and will remain our party. But we need help and the way to get it is not to start castigating the President and no governor should castigate the President. But opposition belongs to the political parties. For me and you, we are still bona fide members of the PDP,” he said.