IPOB TO SOLUDO WE ARE READY FOR TRUCE

"We fully identily with this call and will do our quota, if needed, to see to the fruition of this noble process. We urge the other governors in the South East to immediately identify with and adopt this call as their general position.

From Magnus Eze, Enugu and Stanley Uzoaru, Owerri.

The Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) yesterday, said it was open for truce if the new Governor of Anambra State, Chukwama Soludo kept to his words by paving way for peace without endangering any of their members.

This is as a leading Igbo Think Tank, Nzuko Umanna blamed the frosty relationship between the South East Governors Forum (SEGF) and IPOB for the increasing wave of crisis in the region.

Responding to a call by Soludo on IPOB/ESN to sheathe their swords during his inaugural speech at Awka, the state capital on Thursday, the pro-Biafra group urged Soludo not to endanger or spill innocent Igbo blood during his tenure.

In a statement by spokesman of the group, Emma Powerful, he advised Soludo not to toe the line of his predecessors whom he claimed disrespected and betrayed so many innocent youths from the South East leading to extra-judicial killings and wanton destruction of their homes.

He said: "We wish to assure South East and South South governors that IPOB members are human beings and we don't have plans to suffer our people but any of them who decide to approach us with harsh manner will receive as with harsh manner.

Powerful assured Soludo that as long as he kept to his promise, IPOB will never fight him or let him down.

He asserted that IPOB would not accept or succumb to any threats or humiliation, urging Soludo to do away with politicians who would like to advise him to kill IPOB members in Anambra State.