Peter Obi 2023: IPOB Blows Hot
Makes Shocking Revelation About Position On Igbo Presidency
The Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB has rejected the candidacy of Mr. Peter Obi, the presidential candidate of Labour Party, insisting that it does not have interest in the politics of Nigeria.
The freedom fighting outfit who dissociated itself from the extant clamour for the presidency of Igbo extraction, reiterated their commitment to the restoration of Biafra land.
This is even as the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), has described as “laughable”, a certain claim which had linked the OBIdient movement to the National Secretary of the Miyetti Allah Kautal Hore Fulani Socio-Cultural Association, Saleh Alhassan.
The group argued that Nigeria was irredeemable and rejected Peter Obi, the nominee of the Labour Party, as well as any presidential candidate of Igbo descent.
It claimed that Alhassan’s remarks were an insult to the Biafra struggle and the souls of all those who had lost their lives in support of the restoration of Biafra.
In a statement by its Media and Publicity Secretary, Emma Powerful, IPOB warned that nobody should drag or link it with the politics of Obi.
It maintained that it neither knew Obi nor agreed with Obi’s political opinions, insisting that its interest remained the unconditional release of its Leader Mazi Nnamdi Kanu and the Biafra Referendum date.
The statement reads in part:-
“Our attention has been drawn to the laughable and disgraceful statement credited to one Saleh Alhassan of Miyetti Allah group linking the so-called Obidient movement to IPOB.
Miyyeti Allah are not well informed to know that IPOB does not engage in seasonal jamboree and selection process called Nigerian election.IPOB can not drag its hard-earned reputation to the mud of the farce called Nigerian politics. Peter Obi is involved in and playing the dirty Nigerian politics while we in IPOB play advanced internationally accepted politics targeting Biafra Referendum.”
According to the group:-
“the Igbo people rallying behind Peter Obi are not IPOB members” because IPOB’s goal is the disintegration of the “Nigeria enterprise irrespective of whether Peter Obi or anyone else from the Biafran geographic space is contesting in the Nigerian farce of an election.
“Nigerians should understand that not every indigenous Igbo, Ibibio, Anang, Izon, Ogoni, Urhobo, etc from Biafra extraction support the Biafra Agitation by IPOB. While some are in support others are against it. That’s the democratic nature of Biafrans which only Referendum will settle.”
IPOB, it said, is neither interested in an Igbo President nor a Nigerian President of Biafra extraction.
“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. All we want is the unconditional release of our Leader Mazi Nnamdi Kanu and the Biafra Referendum ped ” the statement added.
