Ihuoma Chiedozie, Enugu
The Movement for the Actualisation of the Sovereign State of Biafra on Thursday threatened to make Nigeria ungovernable if the Federal Government failed to conduct a referendum in the South-East.
MASSOB and other pro-Biafra groups, including the Indigenous People of Biafra, are demanding a referendum in the region to enable the people decide, through voting, whether they wish to secede, or remain in Nigeria.
The Biafra activists claim that majority of people in the region would vote in favour of a separation from Nigeria.
In a statement, which was made available to our correspondent in Enugu, MASSOB said it had concluded plans, with other pro-Biafra groups, to disrupt governance in the country, if the Federal Government would not conduct the referendum.
The National Director of Information, MASSOB, Samuel Edeson, who signed the statement, said the agitators would fight the Federal Government with ‘everything’ at their disposal.
He said the group intended to instigate civil disobedience, and strikes, particularly in the South-East, and Lagos.
Edeson said, “MASSOB and other pro-Biafra agitators will make Nigeria ungovernable if the Nigerian government failed to conduct referendum in Eastern Nigeria.
“We shall use everything at our disposal to fight the Nigerian government, especially through civil disobedience.
“We are going to call for ‘sit at home’ in all Biafran land and Lagos.”
The MASSOB spokesman further spoke of plans by the group to drag former President Olusegun Obasanjo to the International Criminal Court for ‘atrocities’ he allegedly committed against ‘Biafrans’ since 1970, as well as other ‘crimes’.
