BIAFRA: COUNT ME OUT OF RE-IPOB –
ARTHUR NWANKWO
CHANCELLOR of the Eastern
Mandate Union, EMU, Dr Arthur Nwankwo, has dissociated himself from the
Reformed Indigenous People of Biafra, RE-IPOB, a breakaway faction of
Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB and his nomination as one of old Eastern
Region eminent persons to negotiate with the Federal Government on Biafra.
In a
four-paragraph statement, Nwankwo, who restated his clamour for the
restructuring of the country, said the association of his name to RE-IPOB is
scandalous and unaccpetable. Reacting to media reports in which RE-IPOB
mentioned him as one of the eminent Igbo personalities to negotiate with the
Federal Government, he said:
The statement credited to an amorphous breakaway
group from the IPOB called RE-IPOB, gave the impression that I am in league
with it. I consider the association of my name to this type of self-serving
group absolutely scandalous, ridiculous and totally unacceptable. I have
nothing whatsoever to do with the group or any other group for that matter. ”My
position on the state of Nigeria is not ambiguous. I have relentlessly
canvassed a thorough-going restructuring of this country; where all the ethnic
nationalities in Nigeria would come to a round table to negotiate their
existence. ”The Igbo nation has not mandated any person or group to negotiate
for it. I therefore dissociate myself completely from RE-IPOB and demand an
immediate retraction of my name from their press release to avoid unpleasant
consequences
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