Indigenous
People of Biafra, IPOB, on Saturday, September 3, 2016, accused the
Muhammadu Buhari-led government of perfecting plans to cause
disaffection between the Igbo speaking Biafrans and the Ijaw, and bring
them into a collision.
In a statement issued by the pro-Biafra movement’s spokesperson, Emma Powerful, and made available to the press
in Awka, the group noted that the federal government had seen the unity
and seriousness with which the two ethnic nationalities were pursuing
the liberation of the Biafran people and therefore decided to create
non-existent splinter groups of IPOB towards causing enmity between the
Igbo speaking Biafrans and the Ijaw.
The statement alleged that by creating perceived splinter groups of
the Indigenous People of Biafra and giving its leader an Ijaw name, the
Buhari’s government was attempting to pitch the Igbo against the Ijaw.
“By carefully inserting a fabricated
Ijaw name as the leader of this non-existent group of reprobates (for
REIPOB), Buhari is looking to generate enmity between the Igbo-speaking
part of Biafra and the people of Ijaw, the statement read.
“In Buhari’s thinking, he hopes to
further make the restoration of Biafra an impossibility by entrenching
perpetual enmity among various sections of Biafra land.”
IPOB also berated the leaders of Ohaneze
Ndigbo, describing them as political jobbers who were not ashamed of
their lowly political status in Nigeria.
The spokesman assured that “those
thinking that IPOB is a pushover group are in for a shock. We will make
them understand that no amount of divide and rule tactic will prevail.”
He recalled that IPOB leader, Nnamdi
Kanu, had on August 10, 2015, predicted the creation of fake groups, and
had since then prepared for it.
Some groups had last week alleged that
the splinter groups of IPOB were the creation of the federal government
through the Department of State Services, DSS.
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