The Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) has declared that it will actualise a sovereign state of Biafra without recourse to war or bloodshed.
This was contained in a letter to President Muhammadu Buhari by the groups legal counsel, Emekaa Emekesri.
The letter also stated that the President’s utterances on the Biafra issue was prejudicial considering that the case was pending before a court.
Buhari had said during a visit to Katsina that: “for Nigeria to divide now, it is better for all of us to jump into the sea and get drowned.”
Emekesri also said it was wrong for Buhari to dismiss agitators for the actualisation of the sovereign state of Biafra as “kids who were not born” during the Nigerian Civil War.
The IPOB counsel affirmed that the group had no intention to destroy Nigeria.
“We respect Nigeria and the Nigerian Government.
“Our intention is to set Biafra free from Nigeria by the rule of law and not to destroy Nigeria, just as Eritrea was set free from Ethiopia without destroying Ethiopia; just as South Sudan was set free from Sudan without destroying Sudan; just as Bangladesh and Pakistan were set free from India without destroying India.”