The Movement for the Actualization of the Sovereign State of Biafra, MASSOB, has attacked Femi Fani-Kayode, ex-Minister of Aviation, over his recent statement alleging that the January 15, 1966, coup was Igbo-led.
MASSOB said it condemned Fani-Kayode’s “bold, empty claim and assertion that former Head of State, General Ibrahim Babangida, did not say that the 1966 coup was Igbo-led.”
This was made known in a statement on Wednesday by Comrade Uchenna Madu, Leader of MASSOB.
Madu described the ex-Minister’s statement as a misleading falsehood orchestrated by immune and pathological hatred against Ndigbo.
DAILY POST reported that Fani-Kayode had claimed there is nowhere in Babangida’s book, A Journey in Service, where he stated that the coup of January 15, 1966, was not an Igbo coup.
The former Minister insisted that those claiming it was not an Igbo coup are wrong, stating that they are either misguided and misinformed or being mischievous.
However, Madu, on behalf of MASSOB, described Fani-Kayode as a wolf in sheep’s clothing and an acute hater of Ndigbo.
“Was Femi Fani-Kayode among the coup plotters? Was he born during the 1966 military coup?
“If it was an Igbo coup to serve an Igbo agenda, why did the coupists plan to install Chief Awolowo as a provisional president?
“A few years ago, Femi Fani-Kayode garnered some attention and respect from Igbo youths during the period he associated with Mazi Nnamdi Kanu in his current travails in the hands of the oppressive government of Nigeria.
“We never knew that Femi Fani-Kayode was a wolf in sheep’s clothing, an acute hater of Ndigbo, who was sponsored to blackmail the highly respected and adored name of Dim Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu (Eze Igbo Gburugburu),” part of the statement read.
