Biafra: IPOB Threatens To Kidnap, Kill Five Southeast Governors

The Governor of Ebonyi state, David Umahi, has raised the alert concerning a supposed risk by a few individuals from the Indigenous Peoples of Biafra (IPOB) driven by Nnamdi Kanu to seize five Southeast governors.

Governor Umahi said the criminals compromised to execute the unfortunate casualties after they may have gathered payoff, adding that they likewise promised to perpetrate suicide after the whole task, Umahi said.

The Ebonyi state representative said the reestablished danger came by means of instant messages sent to his better half.

Representative Umahi cautioned that Ebonyi State was not among the locale that framed the alleged 'Sovereign States of Biafra as announced by the Indigenous Peoples of Biafra.

The representative, who likewise fills in as Chairman of the South East Governors' Forum, in any case, noticed that a portion of the tumults of IPOB were real however for the methodology being conveyed in understanding their destinations.

Succinct News reports Umahi unveiled this on Sunday at Nkwegu Military Cantonment in Abakaliki, the state capital, amid the official banner off Operation Python Dance (Egwu Eke) Phase III by the Nigerian Army.

The Ebonyi representative stated: "The GOC, you are coming at once we had note from our siblings and sisters of IPOB sending instant messages that there will be no races and offending the pioneers, especially the southeast governors.

"Only a couple of days back, they sent instant message to my significant other that the five governors of southeast would be grabbed and that their (IPOB) security would overwhelm that of the governors and after payments are paid, they would kill them and kill themselves.

"That is absurd; in spite of the fact that as a pioneer in the zone, I should state that a portion of their dissensions are veritable; yet the methodology is awful. That is the reason the pioneers of southeast are not in help of their methodology."

"In this way, I utilize the chance to ask that other geopolitical zones have youth weight gatherings, yet these gatherings ought not have same methodology as IPOB.

"Thus we are not against them, but rather their methodology. Also, as Chief Security Officer of the state, I don't invite them.

"Ebonyi state isn't a piece of Biafra. We are a sovereign state, and we would prefer not to be colonized once more, as we are a state requesting better treatment in the issues of our country.

"I realize they will assault me via web-based networking media, however it doesn't stop what we are doing," Governor Umahi included.