IPOB has berated Northern groups demanding that Biafra secessionist groups be treated as Boko Haram terrorists.
IPOB claimed that the groups are aiming at instigating a Genocide against the Igbos.
The group revealed this in a statement on Monday, May 23.
The statement read in part: Another faceless group, Northern consensus movement, which claims to be a coalition of northern groups, even though only president Buhari’s Miyetti Allah turned out the only recognizable group among obviously fake others, alleged that hundreds of Northerners are being killed in the south east, and went on to advice the F.G. to treat IPOB the way F.G. treated Boko Haram.
“It is instructive, that the entire South-West based media houses have never noted any attacks on Northerners in the South East. It is also surprising that these false allegations are coming only from President Buhari’s own organization, Miyetti Allah.
“It is also quite interesting to note that no Nigerian have heard of any attack of Northerners in the South east, except this strange coalition. They did not give date, instance or town in the South east where in their own words ‘hundreds of innocent law abiding citizens of northern extraction living in south eastern part have been killed in cold blood, with their businesses and properties destroyed’.
It said: This systematic agenda of heaping false allegations in order to levy war on IPOB have been ongoing for months now.
“We recall the strange allegation of killing and burying 5 Fulani in Abia forest, the grave site, which the DSS have vehemently refused to show media men, till date.
“Next were DSS sponsored characters, Sampson Babalola and Stephen Onwu with their non-existent groups.
“Now it is a fake coalition packaged by Miyetti Allah, prodding F.G. to levy war against Eastern Nigeria. From the abundance of the heart, the mouth speaketh.”