Our effort now should be on rebuilding the zone and re-establishing connections and alliances with other zones.
Mr Uba, who represents Anambra South Senatorial District, however, escaped death by whiskers, Peoples Gazette learned.
“Let me tell Nigerians that there is nothing to be afraid of in an Igbo man becoming president. We need to be wise and stand together.”
“One of the charges suggesting that the defendant, Nnamdi Kanu, is a member of IPOB, and he vehemently denied being a member of IPOB.”
“It is the worst kind of abuse of legal process that we have encountered in the history of legal practice – either in Nigeria or anywhere in the world.”
This followed a delay by the prosecution to serve the defence with the amended charge.
They said, by enforcing the sit-at-home order through fear and intimidation, IPOB had become the enemy of many Igbos.
“We are not Biafra. We have been so oppressed, and now we are finding our feet, and you want us to go back. We will not. We will not,” Mr Umahi insisted.
Governor of Ebonyi, Dave Umahi, says the Igbos want to be part of a fair and equitable Nigeria, not a breakaway Biafra.
The army says the exercise will check “the menace of IPOB” and Eastern Security Network.
