How Buhari plans to islamize Nigeria - MASSOB

How Buhari plans to islamize Nigeria - MASSOB

- MASSOB alleges that violent Fulani herdsmen attacking parts of the country are being sponsored by the government in power

- Leader of the group, Uchenna Madu, says the plans by the northerners to subject the people of Biafra will never work 

Northern Elders Forum (NEF) backs the federal government’s decision to proscribe the IPOB

        

       The Movement for Actualization of Sovereign State of Biafra (MASSOB) has attacked the senior special adviser to the president on media, Garba Shehu, for declining to refer to Fulani herdsmen as terrorists.

       The group, reacting to statement credited to Garba Shehu, that Fulani herdsmen have not been proscribed by the government because they are not terrorists, accused the federal government of complicity in herdsmen attacks.

       Leader of the group, Uchenna Madu, said the statement by the presidential aide was evidence that herdsmen attacking parts of the country are being sponsored by the government in power, the Sun reports. 

      He said: “Since Buhari’s media aide will eloquently and comfortably declare that Fulani herdsmen which the United Nations in their official gazette declared as the fourth world deadliest terrorist organization as an innocent group, it shows the high level of Buhari’s plan to forcefully islamize Nigeria. 

      “It also a proof that Hausa Fulani people are more determined in collaboration with some Judases of Biafra land to intimidate the people of Biafra with fear and jittery."

    Madu said the alleged plans by the northerners to subject the people of Biafra will never work, insisting that the agitation for Biafra cannot be defeated.

    “Our resolve and consciousness for Biafra actualization and restoration is rooted firmly in the Almighty God ‘Chukwu Okike Abiama’ and our abilities of never say die. We still insists that IPOB is not a terrorist organization and can never be compared with world fourth deadliest terrorist organization called Fulani herdsmen” he said. 

      Meanwhile, the federal government’s decision to proscribe the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) has received the backing of the Northern Elders Forum (NEF). 

    The forum in a statement on Thursday, September 21, in Abuja, said the government's decision to ban the group was necessary to stamp out emerging terrorism in the southeast. 

     Leader of the forum, Wantaregh Paul Unongo, told journalist that there is no issue or disagreement in the country or anywhere in the world that dialogue cannot resolve, Daily Trust reports.