By Seun Opejobi The Labour Party, LP, presidential candidate, Peter Obi has downplayed claims that the Indigenous People of Biafra, ...
By Seun Opejobi
The Labour Party, LP, presidential candidate, Peter Obi has
downplayed claims that the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, is a terrorist
organization.
Obi maintained that IPOB members are not terrorists.
The Nigerian government had proscribed IPOB following the
agitation for the actualization of Biafra.
Despite the proscription, IPOB, and its leader, Nnamdi Kanu,
had continued to push for the actualization of Biafra.
But, the separatist group had denied the terrorist tag by
the Nigerian government.
However, Obi backed claims that members of the group are not
terrorists.
Speaking with Channels Television, the presidential
candidate said IPOB members around him do not constitute a threat to the
country.
According to Obi: “The only thing I disagree with is naming
IPOB terrorist; they are not terrorists. Those who took the decision may have
information that I don’t have.
“I stay in Onitsha, and I can tell you that they are people
I pass them on the road every day.
“I meet and live with them; in fact, I usually see people
gathering, and I have never had the sense of threat or molestation from them,
even when they gather.”
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