APC Faults Southeast Govs, Army On IPOB Ban
The Anambra State Chapter of the All Progressives Congress (APC) has lambasted Southeast Governors for banning the activities of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) in the zone.
The party also criticised the Nigerian Army for allegedly declaring IPOB as a terrorist organisation.
Okelo Madukaife, Publicity Secretary of the party in the state, said in a statement that it was wrong for the governors and the military to take such actions without following due process.
The statement read in part: ”We are worried that governors, who should point the way for the South East, including Anambra State Governor, Willie Obiano, could lose their heads when others were doing so, and thereby, failed to live up to their responsibilities as leaders.
”We hold that the governors, who, in unison, ought to have drawn the attention of the army to an error in their pronouncement, instead, endorsed it, without due process or broad consultations, and traded away the constitutional rights of an organisation in the South East. Nothing constitutes a bigger betrayal of trust.
”It is our view that the five governors should reverse themselves now; as such illegality may be cited as precedence, going forward.
”We, therefore, call on the Federal Government to call the Nigerian Army to order, to the extent only of veering into the powers reserved for civil authorities, as so much has been experienced in our history, as a nation, not to take some of these costly slips for granted.”
