Leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Nnamdi Kanu, has attacked South East governors over alleged complicity in the military’s activities in the region known as Operation Python Dance.
Briefing newsmen after a meeting on Saturday of South East governors with some Igbo stakeholders that was attended by Minister of Aviation, Hadi Sirika, Chairman of South East Governors, David Umahi, said that the governors never invited the military to the region for Operation Python Dance II.
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The first operation allegedly led to the killing of members of the group at Afara-Ukwu, Umuahia, Abia State, home of Mr Kanu, in September 2017.
Umahi said: “South East governors never invited the Army nor were South East Governors informed of any of their operations on Python Dance until the operations were already started in the states.
“South East governors would like to write to Mr President to request for a meeting with him and all the security chiefs on security to douse tension in the region.”
In a tweet, however, late Saturday Kanu criticised governors of the region, saying that while they supported the Federal Government in proscribing IPOB, governors in the northern region were negotiating with ‘Fulani bandits’.
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“SE Govs, if you knew nothing about Operation Python Dance 2, why did you proscribe IPOB in its wake? The same northern leaders instigating you to fight peaceful IPOB is busy negotiating with & financing their fellow Fulani bandits. Who is fooling who? Too little, too late,” he said.
IPOB had vowed to attack the governors and Igbo leaders anywhere outside the country.
