Okezie Ikpeazu, the governor of Abia State has faulted the strategies employed by the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, urging the freedom fighting group to explore dialogue and other peaceful ways to seek redress.
The governor, however, said the issues of marginalisation and inequality raised by Nnamdi Kanu, the leader of IPOB are valid.
Speaking during a visit to the Osasu Igbinedion pan-African television studio in Abuja on Thursday night, Ikpeazu said IPOB had placed all the governors of the South-East under fatwa (death sentence).
According to him:“People are beginning to think now that some of the issues raised by Nnamdi (Kanu) are, if they were issues of injustice, marginalisation and inequality, any part of society has a right to begin to feel cheated or unwanted.
“So, some of those things which Nnamdi said are valid. Some of us can see it. We cannot continue to hide behind a finger. But some of us do not subscribe to his style or strategy, because I do not understand where he is going and how he is going and when he plans to pull the break (-up) and what he wants to achieve.
“If I have a way of conveying my views to the leadership of that group, what I will say is that they should find a way to enter into conversation and let people know.
“I am under their fatwa now and some of my brother governors. They say, ‘If you see them, kill them.’”
“They are fighting in the kitchen; by the time the war in the kitchen ends, mama’s pot of soup would have spilled, there will be no plate to eat and everybody would be hungry and eventually it would not serve any good purpose. I don’t understand their strategy,” he added.
