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The Publicity Secretary of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Ebonyi State, Mr Nwoba Chika Nwoba has been invited by the Department of State Services (DSS) over his wedding cake. Mr Nwoba and his wife, Onyinyechi, surprised their guests at their wedding reception when they unveiled a cake designed with the insignia and colours of the defunct Biafra Republic. TheNewsGuru.com (TNG) reports that the wedding took place at St. Joseph Anglican church, in his country home, Ekpelu community in Ikwo LGA of the State on Saturday, June, 25, 2022. The reception took place in the compound of the community primary school. Confirming his invitation by DSS, Mr Nwoba, in his verified Facebook wall on Monday at about some minutes past 9 p.m, wrote that the DSS, had summoned him to appear in their Abakaliki office by 12 noon tomorrow [today]. Nwoba wrote, “Got an invitation from the DSS, Abakaliki office tomorrow by 12 pm. I knew I would be invited. As a law-abiding citizen, if the road is clear tomorrow, I will honour it.” Speaking on the intention behind the cake, the Ebonyi PDP Spokesman stated that he did his wedding with a Biafra-styled cake as a show of solidarity with Biafra agitation. According to him, every Igbo man no matter their political affiliations ought to embrace the struggle for the creation of Biafra. "Some journalists while interviewing me about why our wedding cake wore a Biafran colour and logos, asked if security agents had invited me for questioning over it. "I continue to reply that court only proscribed IPOB and not Biafra as an ideology. On that cake, no IPOB inscription was there. Wasn't cut in the name of IPOB when it was about to be eaten. I am not a member of IPOB. Biafran colours have been in existence before the establishment of the IPOB. "Biafra is an ideology. It'll continue to be one until the Nigerian state begins to factor Ndigbo in the scheme of things in Nigeria. What I am against is the idea of pursuing Biafran state creation violently. "All of us have to be alive to witness when the agitations will be led to rest either by way of getting the Nigeria system giving a sense of belonging to the South East or by actual creation of a new country the people can be proud to call theirs. That's the intention behind that cake," Nwoba wrote. See wedding cake below: Recall that the Nigerian government banned everything that’s associated with the defunct Biafra Republic after the proscription of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), which is one of the foremost Igbo separatists agitating for a breakaway from the Nigerian State. Since the prosecution of IPOB by the Nigerian government, anyone found with an item bearing Biafra insignia faces arrest and prosecution by the Nigerian government.