Prior to the elections in 2023, the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) have accused the federal government of supporting political violence, notably in the southeast, and then shifting the responsibility to the organization.
However, IPOB’s Media and Publicity Secretary, Emma Powerful, stated in a statement on Sunday that the pro-Biafra organisation has no interest in Nigeria’s election.
According to it, the group’s sole goal is to legally establish an independent Biafra nation through a referendum.
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The statement urged the federal government to refrain from involving IPOB in issues that do not affect its members while also stressing that IPOB is nonviolent.
It exhorted Nigerians and members of the world community to hold the administration accountable for any acts of violence.
The IPOB statement read, “We the global movement and family of the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, led and commanded by Onyendu Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, is very much aware that the Nigerian government is directly and indirectly, sponsoring election violence in Biafra land, intending to internationally blackmail the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, as an anti-democratic group.
“The IPOB leadership has for the umpteenth time stated unequivocally that part of our modus operandi in our agitation for freedom has never been, is not, and will not be violent agitation.
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“This explains our consistent demand for the UN to organize a referendum in the Biafran territory for the Biafran people to determine their destiny. To this effect, IPOB is neither contemplating nor will it encourage or sponsor anyone or group to disrupt Nigeria’s shambolic selection process called an election.
“IPOB has constantly made it public that we have no interest in and cannot legitimize the aberration they call an election in Nigeria. We are a focused, determined, and disciplined freedom-fighting movement, not political thugs.
“IPOB is devoted to the cause of liberating our people from subjugation and modern-day slavery and neo-colonialism and will not allow ourselves to be distracted from this very objective.
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“The world must hold to account the Nigerian government and the criminals it is covertly recruiting and positioning in the South East to create an environment of violence and after causing the violence, will turn around to blame IPoB.”
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