Supporters of President Muhammadu Buhari in the South-east have defied the threats of pro-Biafra separationist groups IPOB and MASSOB to stage a rally in honour of the Nigerian leader who returned from a 49-day vacation to the UK on Friday, March 10.
The #we stand with Buhari# group ignored threats from IPOB and MASSOB to show support for Buhari on Friday, March 10
The Punch reports that the group called #we stand for Buhari# on Friday staged a support rally for the president in Awka, the capital city of Anambra state.
About 25,000 members of the group converged on the Dr. Alex Ekwueme Square as early as 10am on Friday to show their solidarity to the president who returned to the country same day.
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The rally, which held on the major streets of Awka, was led by the group’s national media director Chijioke Onyekaonwu.
Onyekaonwu said that his group was supporting the Buhari-led administration so that nothing would truncate the Igbo presidency project in 2023 after Buhari’s tenure.
His address read in part: “History always repeats itself but the Igbo proverb, ‘a tree does not enter a man’s eyes twice’, says it all as regards the Igbo political interest as it stands now.
“The political opportunity for Igbo to clinch the presidency in 2015 was lost due to the political selfishness of the Igbo political elite who abandoned the support for a Northern candidate to complete the Yar’adua administration’s second tenure.”
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The group’s action was in defiance of the threat by Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) which had on Thursday, March 9 vowed to stop the rally by all means.
“IPOB will use all available means to stop this show of crass insensitivity to our brave heroes and heroines killed by Buhari,” the group, whose leader Nnamdi Kanu is presently in detention, said in a statement.
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