The Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) has warned governors from the South East geo-political zone and leaders of the Igbo socio-cultural group, Ohaneze Ndigbo, against speaking for the group at a meeting scheduled to hold with the Federal Government.
The group also took a swipe at the governors and Ohaneze Ndigbo for failing to secure the unconditional release of its leader, Nnamdi Kanu, who is being detained on charges of criminal conspiracy and terrorism by the Department of State Security (DSS).
According to a spokesperson of IPOB, Comrade Emma Powerful, the Igbo leaders do not have IPOB’s backing to attend any meeting with the Federal Government or speak on its behalf at any meeting whatsoever.
He said: “If the South East Governors and the Ohaneze Ndigbo are serious they should be talking about getting unconditional release for the Director of Radio Biafra Mr. Nnamdi Kanu who is still being incarcerated for the past one month now. That should be the starting point.
“How can the South East Governors whom we elected but they turned back and stabbed us at the back, calling us all sorts of unprintable names with the enemies of Biafra and South East in general, and the people who call themselves Ohaneze Ndigbo, a group that is in shambles, that has not taken Ndigbo forward after the leadership of Eze Ozobu and Nwabueze, be talking for us.
“The Governors and members of the Ohaneze Ndigbo that is in disarray and some disgruntled traditional rules whom we known for working for any government in power, and soliciting for and receiving contracts from governments, joined the enemies of Ndigbo, who betrayed us during the Nigerian Biafran Civil War, to call us name, and now they claim they want to go and negotiate for us to collect money and contracts as usual to sell us out like they have always done, when they have not even called us to meeting to find out our grievances.”