The Indigenous People of Biafra, (IPOB), has distanced itself from the Labour party presidential candidate, Peter Obi, and the Igbo presidency, saying their agitation is clear from day one.
IPOB reiterated that it’s neither interested in an Igbo President nor a Nigerian President of Southeast extraction.
The group said its members are not part of Obi’s supporters because they are interested in Nigeria’s disintegration.
This information was contained in a statement signed and released by IPOB spokesman Emma Powerful.
Powerful, the spokesman of the separatist group, said Nigeria was irredeemable.
Powerful’s statement reads in part: “The Igbo people rallying behind Peter Obi are not IPOB members because IPOB’s goal is the disintegration of the Nigerian enterprise irrespective of whether Peter Obi or anyone else from the Biafran geographic space is contesting in the Nigerian farce of an election.
“IPOB is a freedom fighting movement and has nothing whatsoever to do with or in Nigerian politics. So long as we in IPOB are concerned, Nigeria is irredeemable.”
IPOB also reiterated its call for the release of its leader, Nnamdi Kanu, and a referendum in the Southeast.
The Indigenous People of Biafra is a nationalist separatist group in Nigeria that aims to restore the Republic of Biafra, a country that seceded from Nigeria before the Nigerian Civil War and later rejoined Nigeria after its defeat by the Nigerian military