The Indigenous Peoples of Biafra (IPOB) has alerted its supporters
over alleged plots by opponents of the struggle for the actualization
of Biafran Republic to organise protests against its detained leader,
Nnamdi Kanu, to create the impression that the Igbo are disenchanted
with his leadership.
The group alleged that the organisers of the protests are also
mobilising northerners in the South East states under the breakaway
Biafra Republic to stage the anti-Kanu protest on or before September
26 when his trial will come up before an Abuja High Court.
In a statement issued yesterday by its Media and Publicity Officer,
Emma Powerful, IPOB alleged that the motive of the anti-Kanu protests
is to further deceive gullible minds that the pro-Biafra group is
factionalised, insisting that “there is no division whatsoever in
IPOB.”
Powerful said that the latest strategy was adopted by the “enemies of
Biafran independence, having failed in their desperation to create
imaginary splinter groups in IPOB.”
“I want to let the whole world know again that there is no division in
IPOB under Nnamdi Kanu; we are intact and no amount of propaganda and
blackmail can distract us,” Powerful said, adding:
“IPOB’s intelligent unit has uncovered plans by the Nigerian
government to mobilise some Hausa/Fulani people living in Biafraland and
some unscrupulous Igbo individuals who are bent on sabotaging the
restoration of God’s nation Biafra.
“The people were paid heavily to organise protests against the leader
of IPOB, Nnamdi Kanu, before or on the 26/9/2016, the day he is to
appear in court in Abuja. They are to organise the protest in all
Biafraland where Hausa people live in order to create the impressions
that there is division in the IPOB family worldwide.
“However, we are calling on the general public and the people of the
world to disregard and shun the concocted protests or rallies against
our leader, Nnamdi Kanu by the government of the day in Nigeria.”
According to IPOB, Powerful remains its Media and Publicity Officer
under the leadership of Kanu, dismissing the “self- acclaimed Philip
Effiong Osuji-led TRIBOB and REIPOB” as “a faceless imaginary creation
of the security agencies”.
IPOB said it would no longer respond to any further claims of the
“imaginary splinter group as doing so will amount to dignifying them and
distracting IPOB from the Biafra project”.
It also pointed accusing fingers at the Movement for the Emancipation of Niger Delta (MEND).
IPOB urged its supporters to disregard the rumours being peddled by
MEND which wants to drag its (IPOB’s) reputation to the mud as it
(MEND)has already done its own.
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