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Africa-Press – Nigeria. <\/strong><\/span>The Igbo socio-political organization, Ohanaeze Ndigbo on Tuesday condemned self-styled Biafra agitator, Simon Ekpa for declaring himself the Biafran Prime Minister.<\/p>\n

Ohanaeze\u2019s Secretary-General, Okechukwu Isiguzoro said Ekpa and his paymasters can\u2019t force Igbos into a civil war.<\/p>\n

In a statement, Isiguzoro described Ekpa as an enemy of the Igbo nation while distancing itself from the formation of the unity government.<\/p>\n

Isiguzoro said, \u201cOhanaeze worldwide views with great distaste and condemnation\u201d the purported declaration by Simon Ekpa, leader of the Ekpa Killer Squad (Autopilots) as a \u201cBiafran Prime Minister in Exile\u201d.<\/p>\n

\u201cIndeed, this latest episode, an orchestrated attempt by the Finland-based Igbo enemy, who has made himself a ready tool in the destruction of Ala-Igbo can only be blamed on his \u201cdeliberate pampering\u201d by the Finnish and Nigerian Governments after detailed reports of heightening terrorism from his Finnish base, including reports from a Finnish journalist, who was in Enugu this February to personally interview families of victims of his terror attacks, which he boldly affirmed on Finnish Television was presented to the Finnish Government.<\/p>\n

\u201cNdigbo has rebutted and renounced in strong terms the formation of a purported Biafra Government in exile, by Simon Ifeanyi Njoku Ekpa who is seen as the greatest enemy of Ndigbo in the last 200 years and one of the most dangerous terrorists in Africa and operating from Finland, if the Nigerian Government fails to check this ugly development, Ekpa\u2019s game-plan is to plunge Nigeria into another undeserved Civil War.<\/p>\n

\u201dNdigbo are now given a standing order to capture Ekpa dead or alive, he must not be allowed to escape justice as the leader of the most dreadful killer squad in the Southeast whose sole aim is to destabilize the Southeast with his satanic agenda of leading another Civil War against Nigeria.<\/p>\n

\u201cFor the avoidance of doubt, Ndigbo can never be pushed into fighting another war, regardless of the provocations of Ekpa and his paymasters who surprisingly are hurt by the ongoing fraternity existing between Ndigbo and their Yoruba siblings and are hell-bent on thwarting it.<\/p>\n

\u201cFrom declaring a 5 Day sit-at-home in the South-East during the Presidential election to the declaration of Sit-at-home in Lagos, Ekpa has only one agenda- the destruction of Ala-Igbo, to fulfil his paymaster\u2019s political ambitions.<\/p>\n

\u201cIndeed, his latest drama is aimed at distracting the Labour Party, LP, Presidential candidate from the pursuit of his Pan-Nigerian mandate at the election tribunal by questioning his belief in Nigeria when his people are pressing on with Biafra and now have a \u201cPrime Minister in exile.\u201d<\/p>\n

Ohanaeze urged the Nigerian and Finnish Governments to delay no further in extraditing Ekpa to Nigeria to face prosecution for crimes against humanity.<\/p>\n

\u201cThat is the only thing that will be a deterrent to Ekpa and his co-travellers,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n

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Africa-Press – Nigeria. The Igbo socio-political organization, Ohanaeze Ndigbo on Tuesday condemned self-styled Biafra agitator, Simon Ekpa for declaring himself the Biafran Prime Minister. Ohanaeze\u2019s Secretary-General, Okechukwu Isiguzoro said Ekpa and his paymasters can\u2019t force Igbos into a civil war. 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