BREAKING: Fresh Trouble For Kanu As South-East Governors Ban IPOB Activities

Hamilton Nwosa
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Trouble appears to be pouring in torrents for the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB as the governors of the South East have proscribed all the activities of the group. This is even as the Governors have called on the leadership of the group and all other aggrieved groups to articulate their position on all national issues and submit to the committee of governors, Ohaneze Ndigbo, and the members of the National Assembly from the zone through the Chairman of the South-East Governors Forum.

The governors of the five South-East states took the decision after a five-hour closed-door meeting at the Government House in Enugu, which was attended by the Deputy Senate President Ike Ekweremadu, President-General of Ohanaeze Ndigbo John Nwodo, and the General Officer Commanding 82 Division of the Nigerian Army, Lt-Gen, Adamu Abubakar.

Among the resolutions during the meeting is an appeal to President Muhammadu Buhari to withdraw the military in the South East at the moment.

Details later…

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