Southeast Governors’ Forum yesterday distanced itself from the rumour making the rounds that it accused the federal government of killing members of the indigenous people of Biafra (IPOB).
It was reacting to a report credited to one Comrade Nwankpa Osita Okere, alleging that the forum met behind closed doors in Abakaliki, the Ebonyi State capital where they accused the federal government of brutality on Ndigbo.
The chairman of the forum and governor of Ebonyi State, Chief David Umahi, described the report as tissues of lie from the pit of hell and calculated attempt by some desperate politicians to create problem between the governors and the presidency.
Umahi who spoke in a statement issued by his chief press secretary, Sir Emmanuel Uzor, described the report as nothing but the figment of the writer’s imagination.
He noted that the report was craftily done to embarrass the forum and cause confusion between the governors of the zone and the federal government as part of efforts to thwart peace process with the IPOB.
He accused the originators of the report of trying to sabotage the peace process already in motion between the forum and the leadership of IPOB, especially as it concerns the rebuilding process and way forward to achieving lasting peace in the zone.
The statement reads: “the attention of the forum has been drawn to a report circulating in various social media platforms, alleging that the South East Governors met behind closed doors at the Government House Abakaliki where they reached a consensus and accused the federal government of killing members of IPOB”.
“While it is our responsibility to protect the lives and property of our people including the IPOB, it is rather embarrassing to link the forum to whatever politics of bitterness in any part of the country”
“Firstly, the writer and his paymasters failed to meet up with the realities on ground as concerns the already initiated move between the governors’ forum and leader of IPOB, Nnamdi Kanu reached during our last meeting in our secretariat in Enugu”.
“It is therefore the wish of the forum to assure the general public that the communiqué raised during our last meeting with IPOB leadership still stands and anybody circulating any report contrary is the real enemy of Ndigbo and should be disregarded”.
The statement further noted that there was no such meeting as reported by the agent, adding that the chairman of the forum, Governor Umahi, whom he quoted as issuing the statement, was not even in the country.
Umahi said he is currently outside the country on investment drive for the development of his state.
He added that the forum is working in synergy with the federal government and other federating units towards economic and regional integration and development of the South East region.
He called on members of the public to disregard every attempt by amorphous groups to instigate crisis between the zone and the federal government.
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