LEADERSHIP of the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, said they are no longer interested in remaining in Nigeria and that their desire is
the actualisation of a sovereign state of Biafra. The organisation which was reacting to Ohanaeze Ndigbo and Igbo leaders position on restructuring, said Ohanaeze is free go ahead with the restructuring mantra making the waves in Nigeria, but it will not stop them from their quest.
A statement made available to the media by its Publicity Secretary, Emma Powerful, accused the Igbo leaders of being compromised. “We, IPOB worldwide, under the command and leadership of Mazi Nnamdi Kanu wish to use this opportunity to reiterate, yet again, that IPOB has never shifted ground on its resolve to boycott the forthcoming governorship election in Anambra State.
“Biafrans cannot be reasonably expected to agree to any electoral process that will only perpetuate their current slave status and misery in this colonial contraption called Nigeria.
“While we may accept being routinely killed and dispossessed outside our land, such intimidation cannot be allowed to go unchecked in Biafraland. We are therefore calling on all those who claim to be Igbo leaders, especially those in the payroll of the Nigerian government to please retrace their steps before it is too late.
“It is unfortunate that these persons and certain others have predictably fallen for the usual crumbs falling off the master’s table in Aso Rock in exchange for their shameful public rejection of the IPOB-led Biafra restoration project. What these men hope to gain by continually selling the collective interest of the masses for peanuts only heaven knows.
“We unwaveringly maintain that come November 18, the whole world will come to the understanding that Biafrans are determined to be liberated. A few selfish individuals motivated by greed, envy and jealousy, whose whole life has been characterised by merchandising in misery and suffering cannot trade with our future anymore.
” These men went to Abuja with a list that had their family members, friends, relatives and girlfriends for consideration in federal government appointments in exchange for our freedom. Their families occupying ministerial and federal positions are more important to them than liberating their people from oppression and servitude.
“This present generation of Biafrans can promise them that the days are gone when leaders emerge in Biafraland through a process of selection determined by the Hausa- Fulani oligarchy in Sokoto and Kaduna. The era of Sokoto Caliphate and Aso Rock dictating political outcomes in Biafraland is over and will be confirmed on November 18.
” All the money these men collected from Abuja to denounce the Biafra project will forever be an albatross around their necks. History will never forgive them.
“IPOB maintains that there will be no more elections in Biafraland starting with Anambra State this year. We are equally aware that some of these Igbo leaders, politicians and clergy are actively working with their Arewa counterpart in trying to convince the presidency to re-arrest our leader.
“This deplorable, unprincipled and disgraceful attitude is indicative of the decay at the heart of the politics of compromise that these men have been playing since after the war in 1970. They will sell their soul to the devil if it means one more contract, one more federal appointment or elongation of tenure.
“They must know that this generation of Biafrans, both old and young, say no to their usual sell-out antics. It is either these men are with us in our quest for Biafra restoration or they are with their Hausa Fulani masters in their unholy desire to remain as slaves in Nigeria.
“It is imperative to understand that IPOB is not asking the leadership of Ohaneze Ndigbo to abandon their quest to remain in their restructured Nigeria, what we are saying is that they should be restructuring Nigeria, while we continue with the struggle for Biafra’s independence.
“If they are able to finish their restructuring before the arrival of Biafra’s independence, then we will examine the parameters by which the restructuring was established, then the people of Biafra will decide for themselves between the restructured Nigeria and Biafra’s independence which one is better. Ohaneze should not worry for now because ultimately the people will decide for themselves,” the statement maintained.
