The Igbos and the Afenifere group have accused the Minister for Information of arrogating powers of the court to himself. information
• Yoruba group accuses Minister of seeking Tinubu’s favour amid strained relationship• IPOB to army chief: Rescue Sharibu before threatening usThe pan-Yoruba socio-political organisation, Afenifere, yesterday, tackled the Minister of Information, Lai Mohammed, over his stance on the outcome of the just-concluded general elections, which he said was credible.
While alleging that the Minister was desperate to find his way back into the camp of the President-elect, Bola Tinubu, after a strained relationship, Afenifere disclosed that the situation had led Mohammed to dish out false claims over the election. Continuing, Afenifere said: “Talking about treasonable comments, Mohammed may need to rewind his own past statements, particularly, the interview he granted Premium Times on April 27, 2013, wherein, he said ‘Democracy will fail in Nigeria unless APC wins in 2015.’
However, continuing his foreign media rounds yesterday, the Minister called on Western countries to stop harbouring members of the proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra . According to the 2023 Global Terrorism Index , IPOB ranked as the 10th deadliest terror group in the world. The report claimed that the group was responsible for 40 attacks and 57 deaths in 2022.
“Instead, the Chief of Army Staff, his officers and soldiers are busy hunting for innocent IPOB and our forests-protecting ESN operatives, because IPOB is a peaceful movement seeking for inalienable right.” Board Chairman of the group, Emeka Umeagbalasi, stated that the implications of the statement and the travel to the United States by Mohammed at the expense of the country, was to tell the world how the Federal Government “coordinated the armada of fraud called the February 25 presidential poll.”
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