By John Ugo, Awka
Members of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) on Tuesday warned former Governor Kano State, Rabiu Kwankwaso and other leaders in Nigeria not to link the group with the Presidential candidate of the Labour Party (LP) in the 2023 elections, Mr Peter Obi.
The body described the country’s general polls as a selection process which the actors call election in Nigeria.
Members of the body also warned that
“the Nigerian politicians generally and Kwankwaso in particular should desist from linking IPOB with Peter Obi, his political ambition and campaign.
The outlawed group stressed that Peter Obi is not an IPOB member, never supported its agitation for freedom at any time because he pursues a totally different goal from that of the separatist group.
IPOB in a statement by its Director of Media and Publicity Secretary, Comrade Emma Powerful on Tuesday said, “we have no interest in the Nigerian morally decadent, fantastically corrupt political system and landscape.”
“IPOB wishes 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.
“If Kwankwaso is threatened by Labour party and Peter Obi’s teeming support by the creative and talented but downtrodden, neglected, deceived, deprived, killed Nigerian youths (#Endsars) from even the North which your generation do not have any good intentions for, then he should go forward and settle his differences and stop linking IPOB to their problem.”
According to Powerful, “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…
“IPOB is a disciplined movement and we do not speak from both sides of the mouth. Our singular objective is to extricate our people from the debilitating environment that prevents Biafrans from attaining our fullest potential as human beings, exit from the contraption called Nigeria and be able to determine our fate through putting to use our intrinsic endownments and ingenuity in an enabling environment in a free and Independent Biafran Nation,” the body stated.
They declared that, “Peter Obi is not a member of IPOB and he is neither agitating nor 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.”
