Following the breakout of a splinter group, The Rebranded Indigenous People of Biafra, TRIPOB, yesterday from the pro-Biafra group, Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, a third faction has emerged under the aegis of the Reformed Indigenous People of Biafra, RE-IPOB.
Recall that the TRIPOB had promised to burn the Biafran flag on October 1 claiming the IPOB was too rigid.
The new group, RE-IPOB, in a statement issued claimed its faction is the authentic representative of the organisation.
RE-IPOB in its statement disclosed that it has sacked the detained IPOB leader and Director of Radio Biafra, Nnamdi Kanu.
In the statement signed by its spokesman, Chima Philip Effiong Osuji, the RE-IPOB noted that both the IPOB and the TRIPOB no longer have the rights to speak for the group.
“Both IPOB and TRIPOB have been sacked; they should no longer speak for the Biafran people. They are the same outfit and have nothing to offer Biafra. We warn that if Nnamdi Kanu, IPOB and the so-called TRIPOB continue their antics, RE-IPOB will be forced to make public the sponsors of the two groups.
“RE-IPOB will not accede to the burning of the Biafran flag as the sacked TRIPOB planned. The Biafran flag is sacred to Biafrans.
“If the federal government is sincere in its dialogue with RE-IPOB, then the Biafran flag can be exchanged with the Nigerian flag in the presence of President Muhammadu Buhari, the National Security Adviser, Director of State Security and the Elders of Biafra.
“If the dialogue is fruitful; then a peace treaty and a ‘no victor no vanquished tree’ will be planted at Gakem where the first shot of the Nigerian Civil war started and at Amichi Nnewi where the formal cessation of hostilities of the war began.”