Metro IPOB Members Decamping To Other Separatist Groups – Federalist Movement

[ProfRem]

A group, under the umbrella of Federalist Movement of Nigeria has stated that members of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) are decamping to other separatist groups since the court declared it a terrorist group.

The group therefore called on the Federal Government of Nigeria to immediately bring the weight of the law to bear on criminal elements that were hiding under agitation against marginalization to breach the constitution and the extant laws of the land.

FNM made this know via a statement signed by its convener, Emmanuel Ogah and made available to Dailypost on Wednesday.



The group said that the call became imperative following reports that many members of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) have started migrating to other separatist groups that are becoming virulent and could soon continue acts of aggression from where IPOB stopped before the court ordered that it is a terror group.

Ogah said, the Biafra Zionists Federation (BZF) led by one Benjamin Igwe Onwuka, having been swelled in membership by defecting IPoB members, is now ramping up its purveyance of hate speech and incitement to violence in the fashion of the terrorist group.

He said, “Onwuka, speaking as BZF leader, is calling for attacks on the Chief of Army Staff (COAS) – Lt. Gen Tukur Buratai and the Minister of Information, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, including threatening them with trial at the International Criminal Court on a shallow basis".

 

[Aisha Muhammed]

I would like to know how you got hold of the METRO Report on IPOB by one Emmanuel Ogah, who claims to be the convener of Federalist Movement of Nigeria. This is very important because the referenced organization Federalist Movement of Nigeria is not convened by Ogah neither is he a member. So how did you guys come by this outlandish ?story?

 

[Aisha Muhammed]

A group, under the umbrella of Federalist Movement of Nigeria has stated that members of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) are decamping to other separatist groups since the court declared it a terrorist group.

The group therefore called on the Federal Government of Nigeria to immediately bring the weight of the law to bear on criminal elements that were hiding under agitation against marginalization to breach the constitution and the extant laws of the land.

FNM made this know via a statement signed by its convener, Emmanuel Ogah and made available to Dailypost on Wednesday.

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The group said that the call became imperative following reports that many members of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) have started migrating to other separatist groups that are becoming virulent and could soon continue acts of aggression from where IPOB stopped before the court ordered that it is a terror group.

Ogah said, the Biafra Zionists Federation (BZF) led by one Benjamin Igwe Onwuka, having been swelled in membership by defecting IPoB members, is now ramping up its purveyance of hate speech and incitement to violence in the fashion of the terrorist group.

He said, “Onwuka, speaking as BZF leader, is calling for attacks on the Chief of Army Staff (COAS) – Lt. Gen Tukur Buratai and the Minister of Information, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, including threatening them with trial at the International Criminal Court on a shallow basis".

I would like to know how you got hold of the METRO Report on IPOB by one Emmanuel Ogah, who claims to be the convener of Federalist Movement of Nigeria. This is very important because the referenced organization Federalist Movement of Nigeria is not convened by Ogah neither is he a member. So how did you guys come by this outlandish story?

 

[Aisha Muhammed]

I would like to know how you got hold of the METRO Report on IPOB by one Emmanuel Ogah, who claims to be the convener of Federalist Movement of Nigeria. This is very important because the referenced organization Federalist Movement of Nigeria is not convened by Ogah neither is he a member. So how did you guys come by this outlandish story?

WHO IS EMMANUEL OGAH??????????????

 

[ProfRem]

I would like to know how you got hold of the METRO Report on IPOB by one Emmanuel Ogah, who claims to be the convener of Federalist Movement of Nigeria. This is very important because the referenced organization Federalist Movement of Nigeria is not convened by Ogah neither is he a member. So how did you guys come by this outlandish story?

WHO IS EMMANUEL OGAH??????????????

Where do you have issue? Do you know any other convener apart from Ogah?

 

[Aisha Muhammed]

Where do you have issue? Do you know any other convener apart from Ogah?

I just told you he is NOT the Convener, he is NOT even a member of the Organization. What you should have done was ask him to show you the CAC Registration Certificate of the Group.

The Federalist Movement of Nigeria to which I belong never made any such statement. Your publication has just implicated this group in something it never said. Your newstory is false. Emmanuel Ogah is neither the Convener, nor is he a member of the Federalist Movement of Nigeria.

Don't you VERIFY stories before running to town with them? Is this how you build followership and trust with the public? By publishing half-truths?????

 

[ProfRem]

I just told you he is NOT the Convener, he is NOT even a member of the Organization. What you should have done was ask him to show you the CAC Registration Certificate of the Group.

The Federalist Movement of Nigeria to which I belong never made any such statement. Your publication has just implicated this group in something it never said. Your newstory is false. Emmanuel Ogah is neither the Convener, nor is he a member of the Federalist Movement of Nigeria.

Don't you VERIFY stories before running to town with them? Is this how you build followership and trust with the public? By publishing half-truths?????

Thanks you @Aisha Muhammed can you tell your convener to write a rejoinder. You don't address the press with a mere comment. When you have a different opinion, you know how you engage the public and/or press. Go ahead and do so.

 

[Aisha Muhammed]

You guys should try and verify Newstories before publishing them or we'll be having rejoinders up and down. Don't you care about your readers?????? Clear disrespect for your readers and poor journalism.

 

[Aisha Muhammed]

Yes, we're going ahead with a rebuttal......but all this could have been avoided had you taken time to actually verify your news story prior to running to print.