S.E Governors to meet in Owerri over pro-Biafra protests
November 09, 2015 at 1:49 pm in News
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By Chidi Nkwopara, OWERRI.
Imo State Governor and Chairman of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Governors’ Forum, Chief Rochas Okorocha, is currently arranging a crucial meeting with other governors in the South-East, over the growing agitation by protagonists of Biafra.
According to a press statement signed by his Chief Press Secretary, Mr. Sam Onwuemeodo, the leadership of Ohaneze Ndi Igbo, and other stakeholders in the geo-political zone, were also being invited by the Governor, to talk and agree on how to check the activities of pro-Biafra groups in the area.
“The meeting is expected to take place this weekend in Owerri, the Imo State capital. Already the Governor has begun to make all the necessary contacts to ensure that all those expected to be at the meeting, would be in attendance”, Onwuemeodo said.
Vanguard recalls that Okorocha had earlier, while taking exception to the pro-Biafra violent protests in some of the South-East states and few other neighbouring states, disassociated the governors and leaders in the South-East states from the Movement for the Actualization of the Sovereign State of Biafra, MASSOB, protest, describing the whole exercise as “embarrassing, disturbing, counter-productive and to a large extent, distracting”.
According to Governor Okorocha, the pro-Biafra protests could not be in the interest of the south-east people but were only sending wrong signals to the rest of Nigerians.
“It has become increasingly necessary for the governors in the zone, Ohaneze leaders and other stakeholders in the area to meet, to call a spade, a spade”, Okorocha said.
The Governor also said that “at the end of the Owerri meeting, the governors and other leaders will take a common position and will also invite the leaders of the pro-Biafra groups for a meeting, to let them know the socio-economic and political implications of their activities, including their demand for sovereignty in a united Nigeria”.
It was the considered opinion of Chief Okorocha that the governors and leaders in the zone could no longer sit and watch the whole situation degenerating, even as he also noted that the Igbos as a people cannot afford to have its own kind of Boko Haram.
He wondered why the pro-Biafra apologists kept quiet all these years only to resume their protests and activities this time and few months after the new administration in the country came on board.
Meanwhile, the Governor had also met with the security chiefs in the state on how to ensure that the pro-Biafra protests across the South-East states at the moment won’t be experienced in Imo state.
Similarly, the Governor has also been meeting with certain categories of the citizenry in the state that may have the temptation of joining the pro-Biafra protest to let them know the futility of such action.

great

They better meet and call their flat heads brothers to order. Generation of chest beaters have started again.

Please no igbo governor should attend this useless meeting.. Let Rochas go and meet with his APC governors, he is not part of us and never speak for us. I believe obiano will not be attending like the previous one he called.

Okorocha is a goat! Which governor will go to owerri for any meeting? Is owerri whr south east governors meet? I dont blame him na, it will be embarrasing because of his presidential ambition. I dey pity him, we knw everybody frustrting biafra movement...time will come wen we will confront them one on one. Somebody shld help me and tell rochas to relax abt 2019 presidency because it will be a nightmar to him. He shld wait for deputy governors that will be sent by the governors because i knw that no governor will honour such invitations frm that failure okorocha

FreeGlobe:
Please no igbo governor should attend this useless meeting.. Let Rochas go and meet with his APC governors, he is not part of us and never speak for us. I believe obiano will not be attending like the previous one he called.

as if your opinion counts.

Mtscheeew!

Okorocha you are a big fooooollll!!! This useless hausa man won't channel his energy into developing Imo State. Like Buhari, Like Okorocha. Two IDIOTS

People that are not, will not and can never be united are fighting for separation ........what an irony of life.

Free Kanu nd let peace be befor his arrest there was peace

Beremx:
as if your opinion counts.

Mtscheeew!

Berem obiano will not be attending. I hope other igbo governors should not also attend. Rochas should be meeting with his apc governors and not Igbo governors

They all support Biafra, they can quote me anywhere, they all support the actualization Biafra, even Okoroawusa himself, just that few of them are scared of buhari's ,..... U no wat I mean.

This is a welcome development.

they should try and make this agitation worthwhile or else the agitation will continue.

FreeGlobe:

Berem obiano will not be attending. I hope other igbo governors should not also attend. Rochas should be meeting with his apc governors and not Igbo governors

how do you know Obiano won't be attending? Are you his secretary?

Nna abeg stop talking nonsense!!

The koko is that biafrans don't listen to these fat tommy governors. I hereby,declare their meeting meaningless!

What a useless meeting called by a useless and worthless fat ugly failed governor. Always seeking for cheap attention and playing to the gallery. I trust my governor to bluff this hopeless daft!

Biafra issue aside, it is very predictable that Obiano can never attend a meeting called by a hopeless, useless, worthless, failed governor. He thinks Obiano is a local unlettered clown like him..

Beremx:
how do you know Obiano won't be attending? Are you his secretary?

Nna abeg stop talking nonsense!!

Beremx:
how do you know Obiano won't be attending? Are you his secretary?

Nna abeg stop talking nonsense!!

obiano didn't attend the first meeting he called. he won't be attending this one too. Rochas should go and meet his apc governors

BumbleDevil:
They better meet and call their flat heads brothers to order. Generation of chest beaters have started again.

The worst path of the matter is that most the Youths protesting for Biafra never witness the real Biafra war.

Nothing can stop this movement...


I didn't even know this was this serious....As it stands now: Even 1000 fully armed policemen won't be able to stop this agitators


Its a new revolution....The masses are finally speaking!

The people want to be free; they want Biafra! Rochas said the aspiration of his people is a distraction, what kind of leader speaks like that?

If Rochas and Ohaneze cannot offer the people what they want, I'm afraid they have lost their relevance, and should make way for those in tune with reality. Sovereignty belongs to the people, not to the so-called leaders!

A good leader must first listen, and then guide, not impose his will on the people!

In any case, we mostly don't respect the opinion of the turn-coat Rochas.

Sweetguy25:
Okorocha you are a big fooooollll!!! This useless hausa man won't channel his energy into developing Imo State. Like Buhari, Like Okorocha. Two IDIOTS

...Another frustrated jonathanian doing what they know how to do best; throw unwarranted insults around out of the bitterness in their hearts.

Alone? No IPOB representatives?

Well, the agenda should first be the release of Nnamdi kanu, then the referendum.

These two cannot be negotiated.

The Governor also said that “at the end of the Owerri meeting, the governors and other leaders will take a common position and will also invite the leaders of the pro-Biafra groups for a meeting, to let them know the socio-economic and political implications of their activities, including their demand for sovereignty in a united Nigeria”.

We know the implications, the question is,

DO YOU KNOW THE IMPLICATIONS OF YOUR EVILS ON THE SOUTH EASTERN PEOPLE?
DO YOU THINK YOU WILL GO FREE?
ARE YOU READY FOR ATONEMENT?

BumbleDevil:
They better meet and call their flat heads brothers to order. Generation of chest beaters have started again.

Okay, we have read from you.

Can you now pit your tail between your legs and crawl away in shame?

obailala:
...Another frustrated jonathanian doing what they know how to do best; throw unwarranted insults around out of the bitterness in their hearts.

ur father!

BumbleDevil:
They better meet and call their flat heads brothers to order. Generation of chest beaters have started again.

la wa o,rule number 2 violated.

Hope they join the protest