The leadership of the Movement for the Actualization of the Sovereign State of Biafra (MASSOB)have condemned a statement made by Femi Fani-Kayode, where the former Minister of Aviation said that nowhere in Ibrahim Babangida’s book did he say the 1966 coup was not an Igbo coup.
MASSOB recalled the hatred of Fani-Kayode against Igbos, which he had in the past, made abundantly clear.
Leader of MASSOB, Uchenna Madu said in a statement that “MASSOB condemns his bold, empty claim and assertion that Rtd General Babangida did not say that the 1966 coup was Igbo organized. Was Femi Fani Kayode among the coup plotters, was he born during the 1966 military coup?
“MASSOB warns Femi Fani Kayode to desist from his unfounded, malicious, and misplaced trajectory against Ndigbo. If it was an Igbo coup to serve an Igbo agenda, why did the coupists plan to install Chief Awolowo as a provisional president?
“It should also be remembered that some non-Igbo officers, like Major Adewale Ademoyega, Captain Ganiyu Adeleke, Lt. Fola Oyewole, and Olafimihan, all Yorubas and brothers to Femi Fani Kayode took part in the failed coup.
Another military officer of Igbo extraction, Major John Obienu, crushed the coup.
“The original intention and initial purpose of the coup plotters was to release Chief Obafemi Awolowo from prison immediately after the coup and make him the executive provisional president of Nigeria, but it failed.
“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).
“Fani-Kayode, you are warned”, the statement added.