MASSOB endorses Jonathan

The leadership of the Movement for the Actualisation of the Sovereign State of Biafra has endorsed President Goodluck Jonathan for a second term.

The decision was reached after its national executive meeting on Monday.

A statement by MASSOB’s National Director of Inforamation, Mr. Uchenna Madu, in which the announcement was made, said the national leader of the group, Mr. Raph Uwazuruike and a few others boycotted the meeting.

The statement partly read, “That MASSOB, in coalition with other Igbo socio-political proups, shall support and vote for President Goodluck Jonathan, being a Christian, a close neighbour of Ndi’gbo and an in-law.”

The group, however, said it expected “concrete assurance and evidence” from the President on the rehabilitation of the Okigwe-Arondizuogu-Nnewi expressway, Umuahia-Ohafia-Arochukwu federal road and Enugu-Awka-Onitsha dual carriage way, which the group said “have been wickedly abandoned by the Federal Government.”