The Indigenous People of Biafra on Wednesday hailed former
President, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo over his scathing letter to President
Muhammadu Buhari.
Obasanjo had in the letter blasted Buhari over the manner he has handled the affairs of government for the past three years.
IPOB described Obasanjo’s admonition as a devastating blow on
purported Igbo leaders in the South East who recently endorsed Buhari
for a second term, according to a report by Punch.
Speaking through its Media and Publicity Secretary, Emma Powerful in Awka, Anambra state, the group said: “The
statement credited to the former president of Nigeria Chief Olusegun
Obasanjo was carefully timed to deliver a devastating blow to the
scavenging class of political prostitutes in Igboland that shamelessly
went to hawk their wares in Abuja a few days ago.
“The shameless endorsement of Buhari for 2019 by these bunch of
undignified individuals under the banner Igbo leaders have showcased to
the world what a bunch of delinquent inconsequential vain glorious
misery merchants they are.
“We support Obasanjo for his timely intervention because at a
time of national crisis and with people losing their lives across the
Middle Belt and Southern Nigeria, anybody discussing partisan politics
under such an atmosphere of mass misery is not fit to be regarded as a
human being talk more, a leader.
“What Obasanjo said is the clearest endorsement of the
philosophy of our leader and prophet of our time Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, that
the only way to reign in a dictatorship is by confronting it head-on
with the truth.
“Obasanjo has spoken the truth and should be applauded for it.
Those hungry and insatiable APC ‘yes’ men that visited Aso Rock to
endorse Buhari for 2019 under the banner of Igbo leaders should all
cover their collective faces in shame. They have brought shame and
dishonor to Igboland.
“Buhari has nothing to offer apart from misery and premature
death. Those who out of ignorance opposed the ideology of freedom as
espoused by IPOB can now see that we are visionaries who should be
praised not labeled terrorists.”
The group maintained that Obasanjo had seen the inherent danger of
the cluelessness and visionless leadership of the Buhari administration.
Powerful added,”We also commend Chief Ben Nwabueze and Chief
Mbazuluike Amaechi who have been speaking in this direction without fear
or favour for some time now.
“They are the real Igbo leaders the world should look up to,
not the collection of failures, charlatans, pimps and political harlots
that went to endorse Buhari in Abuja a few days ago.
“Obasanjo’s statement is a slap on the faces of these criminals
parading themselves as Igbo leaders. The timing couldn’t have been more
apt.
“It is crystal clear from analysis of Obasanjo’s statement that
the new coalition he is calling for is something similar to what IPOB
is doing, but on a broader all encompassing scale that will include all
ethnicities in Nigeria rather than one restricted to Biafra alone.”