Chief Ralph Uwazurike-led Movement for the Actualization of the Sovereign State of Biafra, MASSOB has urged President Muhammadu Buhari to urgently address the issue of marginalisation of Igbos because Ndigbo will not tolerate further marginalisation in Nigeria.
MASSOB Women Director for Anambra North, Amaka Okafor said this while briefing newsmen after they rose from a closed door meeting with the regional administrators and other top MASSOB members in Onitsha.
Okafor said: “We will use this month of August women meeting to pray more fervently as we have embarked on prayer session throughout Igbo land to ask God to help us actualize our cause.
“We cannot achieve this without fervent prayers and we ask our women in Igbo land to ensure they use this August meeting of women to mobilize the women for the prayer which will be headed by the prayer warriors we have employed.
“We have been marginalized for about four decades and that prompted Chief Uwazurike to vow that the marginalization must stop and actualizing a Biafran state is the only way it will stop.
“For the women to come out in their large number to speak against the injustice being meted out to Igbos by the Federal Government in Biafran land shows that they are fed up and can no longer tolerate it.
“It was for this same reason that we had the Aba women riot of 1929 when the women protested because they were asked to pay tax by the government and we said no and today again, we saying no to the marginalization of the Igbo.”