MASSOB's leader Uwazurike calls for election to hold in Anambra

-MASSOB leader urges members of his group to go out and vote during the upcoming election in Anambra

- Uwazurike, during the MASSOB's 18th anniversary said that Biafra will be achieved without violence

  The leader of the Movement for the Actualization of the Sovereign State of Biafra (MASSOB), Ralph Uwazurike, has insisted that the upcoming election in Anambra state will hold. While addressing members of his group during the 18th anniversary of MASSOB, Uwazurike said there is no need for Biafra agitators to boycott the November 18 gubernatorial election in Anambra.

  He reassured his followers that Biafra would be achieved without any form of violence whatsoever from MASSOB.

Uwazurike's statement coincide with the army's declaration of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) as a terrorist group.

  Military has categorized the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) as a terrorist group. The Defence Headquarters said following analysis by the military on the various activities of the group, the Armed Forces has profiled the IPOB as a terrorist organization.

  Meanwhile, the founder of the Indigenous People of Biafra, Nnamdi Kanu, and top leaders of his group have allegedly gone into hiding following Friday’s September 15 declaration by the Nigerian Army that IPOB and other Pro-Biafran groups were terrorists organisations.
Investigations by Punch on Saturday September 16 revealed that Kanu and his top lieutenants had ‘disappeared’ from his country home in Afaraukwu near Umuahia and other places he frequently visited.