Chief John Nnia Nwodo. (Source: The Guardian)

Chief John Nnia Nwodo, President-General of the apex Igbo socio-cultural group, Ohanaeze Ndigbo, has expressed support for the decision of the South-East governors to ban the activities of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB).

Speaking in Umuahia, the Abia State capital during the third inauguration of the state and local government executive committees of the Abia State Chapter of Ohanaeze Ndigbo, Nwodo said the governors’ timely intervention to proscribe IPOB’s activities saved several lives and doused the tension in the whole of Igboland.

According to him, the governors took the action out of a genuine interest and desire to safeguard the lives of young people as they could not sit and watch the lives of Igbo youths cut down prematurely.

He said although no Nigerian of Igbo extraction was happy with the region’s position, he maintained that instead of agitating for the restoration of Biafra, restructuring remains the position of Ndigbo to ensure equity and fairness to all sections of the economy.

“We should forget Biafra and insist on restructuring,” he said.