Biafra: You Can’t Decide For Igbos – IPOB Tells Southeast Govs, Elites

Posted by Nwa Diokpa Featured, Latest Headlines, News Across Nigeria, News From The State Thursday, October 7th, 2021

(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, has stated that Southeast governors, religious leaders, and traditional rulers cannot decide the fate of Igbos concerning Biafra.

IPOB stated that Southeast governors and the elites are too small to decide if Igbos would stay in Nigeria against their wish.

African Examiner recalls that the Chairman of the Southeast Governors Forum and Governor of Ebonyi State, Dave Umahi had stated that the region won’t succumb to Biafran agitation.

According to Umahi, Igbos have invested a lot in Nigeria to succumb to the Biafran agitation.

Reacting, IPOB, in a statement issued by its spokesman, Emma Powerful, stated that such comment has exposed Southeast governors as those trying to create anarchy in the country.

IPOB said: “We are the global movement of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) under the command and leadership of our able leader Mazi Nnamdi KANU. Our attention has been drawn to the laughable disgraceful statement credited to the South-East governors where they said that Igbo did not want to leave Nigeria, and threatened to create an anti- agitation group in South East to checkmate IPOB.

“We, therefore, wish to remind South-East governors that their disgraceful plan of creating another group to checkmate IPOB is dead on arrival. The people have lost confidence in them and just as their imaginary Ebubeagu security outfit, no such faceless group can survive in South East.

“But we want to remind South-East governors and the Igbo political elite that they represent less than one percent of the Biafran population. The rest of over 99% of the people earnestly ask for Biafra, and the train has long left the station.

“It is unfortunate that the south East governors are the ones contemplating creating anarchy in the region. Now we can see the real sponsors of the festering insecurity in the region. We are watching them. Now it is obvious that South-East governors in collaboration with the wicked Nigeria security agents are behind the fake groups wreaking havoc across the South East in their desperation to implicate IPOB.

“Instead of setting up a sincere regional security outfit like Amotekun, they created the mischievous and imaginary Ebube Agu to do the hatchet job for them. All this is in their futile efforts to demonise IPOB and ultimately scuttle the growing agitation for Biafra restoration which they consider injurious to their political interests.

“What happened in Imo State yesterday was a confirmation of the strong suspicion all along that the selfish political elite and the security agencies are behind the current spate of insecurity in the South East. The world is still in shock of that act where Nigeria police killed Nigeria DSS as unknown gunmen who is terrorising innocent citizens and tagged him as ESN and IPOB.”