The Movement for the Actualization of the Sovereign State of
Biafra (MASSOB), has made it clear it is not interested in an Igbo Presidency.
MASSOB’s National Director of Information, Sunday Okereafor,
was reacting to remarks by the National Chairman of the All Progressives
Congress (APC), John Odigie-Oyegun, who asked the people of the South East to
vote for the APC, stating that the party would guarantee their quest for an
Igbo president.
Sunday Okereafor, in an interview with Punch, described
Odigie-Oyegun’s statement as laughable.
He explained that the movement’s struggle was for the Igbos
to have a sovereign nation and not for political reasons.
“The claim by the APC national chairman that the party will
use Igbo Presidency to finally kill the PDP in the South-East is laughable.
Nigeria has never had Igbo presidency in its agenda. So, Igbo man can never be
President in Nigeria in 500 years.
“The Igbo elite should understand this. MASSOB does not
believe in any political party in Nigeria. We believe in the freedom of Biafra
and not the campaign for the Presidency to come to a person from Igbo
extraction,” he said.
By Ifreke Inyang
