Biafra: IPOB is after Southeast governors’ lives – Ikpeazu cries out

Abia State Governor, Okezie Ikpeazu, has alleged that the proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, has placed some southeast governors under the death sentence for yet-to-be-disclosed reasons.

Ikpeazu who disclosed that he is one of the governors been threatened by IPOB, noted that the issues of marginalisation and inequality raised by the leader of the IPOB, Nnamdi Kanu, are valid.

He, however, faulted the strategy being employed by IPOB, advising the secessionist group to explore dialogue and peaceful ways to seek redress.

The governor stated this during a visit to the Osasu Igbinedion pan-African television studio in Abuja on Thursday, April 22.

Ikpeazu said: “People are beginning to think now that some of the issues raised by Nnamdi Kanu are, if they were issues of injustice, marginalisation and inequality, any part of society has a right to begin to feel cheated or unwanted.
“So, some of those things which Nnamdi said are valid. Some of us can see it. We cannot continue to hide behind a finger. But some of us do not subscribe to his style or strategy, because I do not understand where he is going and how he is going and when he plans to pull the break up and what he wants to achieve.

“If I have a way of conveying my views to the leadership of that group, what I will say is that they should find a way to enter into conversation and let people know. I am under their fatwa now and some of my brother governors. They say, ‘If you see them, kill them.”

He cautioned IPOB against instigating a civil war in the country, hinting that violence would not favour anyone.

Ikpeazu said the insecurity in the country should be addressed holistically, stressing the need for a change of strategy in the prosecution of the war against insurgents and bandits.