The Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), has slammed the Miyetti Allah Cattle Breeders Association of Nigeria (MAC­BAN), South-East chapter over its comment on the refus­al of the South-East Gover­nors’ Forum to donate land in their zone for cattle ranching.

The group said MACBAN surprise over the decision of the governors smacked of overcon­fidence and allegedly contained a subtle threat of attack.

In a press statement issued yesterday by the group’s media and publicity secretary, Mr Emma Powerful, IPOB described MACBAN comment as utter contempt and a way of ‘speaking the minds of the northern caliphate which the group has come to represent since the coming of the pres­ent administration’.

IPOB maintained that the decision of the governors was a commendable one, insisting that any attack against the Ig­bos and businesses in the north would be met with commensu­rate response in the south.

The statement party read, “The arrogant tone of their (MACBAN’s) statement and implied threat contained therein, against Igbo lives and businesses in the north, points clearly to an impending hostile response from them, which IPOB is both duty and honour bound not to ignore.

“We must make it abundant­ly clear that any attack against Igbo lives and businesses in the north, will be met with commensurate response in the south. Threats and large scale invasions of territories in the Middle-Belt may have had the effect of subduing indigenous Tiv resistance to the Fulani hegemonic juggernaut in the Middle Belt.”

IPOB further threatened that any attack on Igbo people and easterners living in the north will mark the beginning of what it called ‘the apocalyp­tic end of Nigeria’.

It said, “The sensible decision of hitherto docile South-East Governors to avoid wholesale breakdown of law and order in their region, through the banning of herdsmen activities, should be applauded by Arewa Consultative Forum, Sokoto Caliphate and all advocates of peaceful coexistence in Nigeria, not derided through the mouthpiece of Fulani terror­ists the MACBAN.”

IPOB argued that given that 70 per cent of Nigeria’s land mass is in the north, it would be better for ranching and colonies for cattle to be allocated land in the north, in­stead of coming to the already tiny and landlocked South- East for land.

The group called on all South-East and South-South governors not to lose guard as the purported subtle threat by MACBAN should not be taken for granted

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