Movement for the Actualisation of the Sovereign State of Biafra on Sunday tackled the Coalition of Northern Groups over its recent statement on the Igbo nation and the 2023 presidency.
Recently, two prominent Igbo politicians, Anyim Pius Anyim, who is a former Secretary to the Government of the Federation; and Chief Chukwuemeka Ezeife, an ex-governor of Anambra State, reportedly said that the South East won’t mind ‘to kneel or bow before every ethnic group to clinch the 2023 presidency’.
CNG, however, dismissed the statements by both Anyim and Ezeife as ‘no more than deception.’
The Northern Coalition had said, “The bitter truth is that no matter how low the Igbo are willing to go or how long they are willing to keep their knees on the ground, it will be unreasonable to expect other Nigerian tribes, not least the North, to risk entrusting the Presidency in them.”
Reacting, MASSOB described the CNG statement as adding salt to the injury to the Igbo nation.
MASSOB Leader, Uchenna Madu, said, “How do you think that your enemies will trust you? If you kill your wife or children to show your loyalty to them, just as our so-called Igbo/ Abuja politicians are killing our brothers to please the Northern caliphate, yet they never gain their trust.”
Madu also deplored the stance of the two prominent Igbo politicians, saying their appealing tendencies were appalling.
The MASSOB leader further said, “A beggar only begs for something that does not belong to him. A beggar is always inferior to the giver. Ndigbo are not beggars.
“It is an abomination that Igbo elders will kneel down to another in begging, even though that the lives of Ndigbo are at risk. We can never beg, rather we devise our own means of fighting back because Igbos must survive. Ndigbo are not cowards or weaklings.”