The Indigenous People of Biafra has faulted those saying Biafra cannot be actualised by mere street demonstrations.
IPOB expressed the confidence that Biafra can be actualised through civil disobedience or direct action just like the blacks in South Africa did during the apartheid period.
The pro-Biafra group said this in a statement issued on Monday, May 23, in Enugu by its spokesperson Emma Powerful.
IPOB said: “That Barack Obama is the president of the USA today is directly attributable to the civil disobedience of the days of Malcom-X and Martin Luther King Jr.
“For 27 years, the blacks in South Africa never stopped carrying out civil disobedience until Nelson Mandela was released from prison.
The group which noted that the Arab Spring started with civil disobedience said it was “preposterous and smacks of political illiteracy for some compromised people to make mockery of the well-organized and peaceful civil disobedience by IPOB that has the twin objectives of pressurizing government to release their illegally detained leader and for the restoration of the nation of Biafra”.