By Seun Opejobi The Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, on Wednesday lashed out at controversial Islamic cleric, Sheikh Ahmad Gumi ov...
By Seun Opejobi
The Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, on Wednesday lashed
out at controversial Islamic cleric, Sheikh Ahmad Gumi over his comment that
the emergence of Peter Obi as the Labour Party, LP, presidential candidate has
slowed down Biafra agitation in the Southeast.
However, IPOB believes that Obi’s involvement in Nigerian
politics can’t compromise the agitation for Biafra.
DAILY POST reported that Gumi said the emergence of Obi as
LP presidential candidate had slowed down the agitation for Biafra.
The cleric had said the Obi’s movement had reduced IPOB’s
activities, thereby bringing relative peace to the Southeast.
Condemning Gumi’s remark, IPOB reiterated that it does not
recognize Obi as a Biafran because he opted to engage in Nigerian politics.
The separatist group noted that Obi’s involvement in the
presidential race won’t affect its agitation for Biafra.
IPOB stressed that it does not engage in Nigeria’s election
process because it’s “shambolic” and fraudulent.
A statement by IPOB’s spokesman, Emma Powerful, described
Gumi as clueless and uninformed about its activities.
The statement reads partly: “The attention of the global
family and movement of the Indigenous People of Biafra under the command of our
leader, Mazi Nnamdi Kanu has been drawn to the unguarded statements from Sheikh
Gumi, alleging that IPOB agitation has slowed down in the South Eastern region
since Peter Obi picked up the tickets from Labour Party for presidential race
in Nigeria.
“We understand that some unscrupulous elements in Nigeria,
especially Fulani elements, were thinking that Peter Obi who is among those
running the race to become Nigeria President would affect us or change our
decisions to pursue the freedom of our dear Nation Biafra.
“We have said it before now that IPOB does not know Peter
Obi and Peter Obi does not know IPOB. If Peter Obi knows IPOB and its aims and
objectives, he wouldn’t have come out in the first place to contest or waste
his wealth and vast knowledge, talent and wisdom which God Almighty gave and
blessed Biafrans with in the Zoological Republic.
“We can never slow down agitation until Biafra comes.”
IPOB said Gumi and his likes would not understand how Biafra
would be actualized.
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