Simon Ekpa: Umahi Laments IPOB Has Outgrown Nnamdi Kanu

Governor David Umahi of Ebonyi State has dismissed Biafran agitator Simon Ekpa as a bandit even as he disclosed that his fears of IPOB growing beyond Nnamdi Kanu may have been realized.

Umahi made this known while addressing stakeholders and party members of the All Progressives Congress (APC) during the Elders/Widows Party that took place at the Christian Ecumenical Centre, Abakaliki, capital of Ebonyi State.

Affirming that Ebonyi can never be part of Biafra, he said:

“When this agitation for Biafra started, I told them that this matter will go beyond Nnamdi Kanu. And today, it has gone beyond Nnamdi Kanu. Every criminal says he is IPOB. Every criminal says he is ESN.

“Now, we have another bandit they call Simon Ekpa. Is this the Biafra we desired? To be killing ourselves and displacing others. That’s why we said in the heat of that crisis that Ebonyi State can never be part of Biafra. We are not Biafra.

“If Biafra is to be killing ourselves, to go to the market and start shooting people that have done nothing, to be declaring sit-at-home in our homeland and destroying the economy, for what reason? These things are strange to our culture.

“We have phones, and we call our people to call us on phone and tell us where these people are. The Police and Ebubeagu security outfit are on ground. I warn politicians who use these boys. They are the ones that go to court to sue Ebubeagu. They go to national television to condemn Ebubeagu.

“They have killed a lot of Ebubeagu people who are trying to protect our people. I ask all the local government people to give us information because we are ready to enter into the forest to flush out these bandits,” Umahi said as he dismissed Simon Ekpa.

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