By Seun Opejobi The Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, on Tuesday, cautioned the presidential candidate of the New Nigeria Peoples P...
By Seun Opejobi
The Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, on Tuesday, cautioned
the presidential candidate of the New Nigeria Peoples Party, NNPP, Rabiu
Kwankwaso, against linking its struggle with the presidential ambition of the
Labour Party’s Peter Obi.
IPOB said Obi is not one of its members and has never
supported the agitation for self-determination; hence Kwankwaso should desist
from such connections.
Emma Powerful, the spokesman of IPOB, said the group is not
interested in the process of Nigerian elections.
A statement by Powerful reads: “The global family of the
Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), under the command and leadership of our
great leader, Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, wish to advise the former Governor of Kano
State, Rabiu Kwankwaso not to involve IPOB in the selection process they call
an election in Nigeria.
“The Nigerian politicians generally and Kwankwaso, in
particular, should desist from linking IPOB with Peter Obi’s political ambition
and campaign. Peter Obi is not an IPOB member, and never supported our
agitation for freedom at any time because he pursues a totally different goal
from that of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB). We have no interest in the
Nigerian morally decadent and fantastically corrupt political system and
landscape.
“If Kwankwaso is threatened by the Labour party & Peter
Obi’s teeming support by the creative and talented but downtrodden, neglected,
deceived, deprived, killed (Endsars) Nigerian youths from even the North which
your generation does not have any good intentions for, then he should go
forward and settle his differences and stop linking IPOB to their problem.
“IPOB is not interested in the worthless politics you play
in Nigeria, we don’t regard such daylight robbery, fraud, manipulation and
selection as election. Maybe there is something Kwankwaso is not telling the
world. Instead of saying the truth that because he is Fulani with the (born to
rule mentality), he cannot play second fiddle to a Southern Christian
presidential candidate, he has the temerity to associate our hallowed
liberation movement with the shameless murky waters of the Zoo politics.
“IPOB is not concerned with the waves of this election; we
have never asked for nor said anything contrary to our goal and demand. What we
need is a referendum, and a referendum we must have. There are no middle ways
for us as a people as far as our liberty and freedom is concerned. There is,
therefore, nothing anybody can do to change our resolve towards our stated
goal, which is the restoration of Biafra.
“If there is a region to avoid due to criminality with
Terrorism, it is Northern Nigeria which sponsors several terrorist groups as
joint venture partners and recycles them in the military and ministries, you
should feel non – Northerners’ pulses when they helplessly tag along with you
guys to ascertain the sensitivity of their irritations and pounding of hearts
in silent prayers for safety.”
Powerful reiterated IPOB’s agitation for a referendum in the
Southeast as stipulated by the United Nations, UN.
“Peter Obi is not a member of IPOB and he is neither
agitating or in support of our Self Determination struggle. Why associate him
with IPOB’s struggle for freedom. IPOB does not know who Peter Obi is going by
our biodata bank. Our demand is our inalienable rights to self-determination
and this we seek through a universally recognised and accepted political
process called *REFERENDUM* as stipulated by the United Nations Charter.
“IPOB wish to use this medium and opportunity to warn every
politician in Nigeria to desist from linking IPOB with their politics and
selection process because we are not politicians and have no common interest.
We are freedom fighters,” he added.
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