Biafra: IPOB Fires Back At South East Big-wigs For Disowning It, MASSOB, Others

The proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) has chided South-East governors over their condemnation of the leading pro-Biafra group, insisting that the governors are too small to decide for Ndigbo on Biafra.

The secessionist group stated this in a recent statement signed by its Media and Publicity Secretary, Emma Powerful, on Tuesday.

IPOB is a Biafran separatist organization in Nigeria. Its main aim is to restore an independent state of Biafra in the South East of Nigeria through an independence referendum.

Recall that the leaders of South-East Nigeria, comprising the political, religious and traditional rulers rose from a meeting in Enugu last Saturday where they disowned the outlawed IPOB and all pro-Biafra campaigners.

“We the Igbos do reaffirm our commitment to one United Nigeria under a platform of justice, equality of rights, fairness, love and respect for one another.

“We have noted threats by some groups in some other regions against our people of South-East while we firmly promise to protect everyone either from our own region or other regions living in our places," the communique issued after that meeting read in parts.

But IPOB has now fired back at the South East big-wigs.

The banned group said: “The purported statement by these shameless political generals without foot soldiers has only further exposed them as Caliphate boot-leakers. They know too well that they have since lost grip and control of the masses, hence, their desperation to regain the trust of their paymasters.

“They only publicly disowned IPOB, thinking that doing so will make them regain the trust and favour of the Caliphate. The governors, Ohaneze Ndigbo and the handful traitors masquerading as the Igbo political elite should wake up to the realities that they have since lost the confidence of the people.

“It’s only unfortunate, shameful and disgraceful that the so-called Igbo leaders will be quick to disown and betray their own in their quest to appease their slave masters. The South-East governors again, in 2017, they sat together in Enugu State to proscribe IPOB and the Federal Government declared them terrorists with the support of South-East governors while they are not.

“To their shame, how many times have their northern counterparts disowned the bloody terrorists, bandits and Fulani herdsmen rampaging the country? So, the South-East self-acclaimed leaders are quick to disown IPOB and ESN, yet they are calling us to accept the calls for peaceful negotiations? What hypocrisy!”