By Seun Opejobi The Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, on Sunday, cleared the air on setting up a Government in exile. DAILY P...
By Seun Opejobi
The Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, on Sunday, cleared
the air on setting up a Government in exile.
DAILY POST reports that Simon Ekpa, self-acclaimed
discipline of Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, the IPOB leader, had announced the setting up
of Government in exile.
But IPOB has distanced Kanu from the said Government in
exile.
A statement by IPOB’s spokesman, Emma Powerful, said: “We
the global movement and noble family of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB)
under Mazi Nnamdi Kanu wish to reiterate once again to Biafrans, friends of
Biafra and lovers of freedom across the globe that IPOB led by Mazi Nnamdi
Okwuchukwu Kanu has not set up any Government In Exile (GIE). We, therefore,
dissociate ourselves completely from the purported Government in Exile.
“IPOB has legitimate and well established institutions and
well-structured administrative hierarchy that oversees the day- to-day running
of Biafra affairs. Already, all Diplomatic Missions and countries of the world
know about Biafra agitation and they communicate with IPOB as the responsible
authority that overseas the affairs of the Biafran people be it Nationally or
Internationally.
“IPOB has international contacts and connections not through
any worthless Government In Exile but through our established Institutions and
Structures . So, anybody or group peddling or claiming to have set up
Government In Exile has again embarked on a jamboree like those who came before
them claiming to have formed a government in Exile at one point in time. They
simple do not deserve to be given any attention because this is the avenue that
the Nigerian government wants to us to water down our agitation for total
freedom.”
The group recalled how a former deputy leader suggested such
a government to Kanu, but he refused such a move.
“We are not unaware that some dissidents expelled from IPOB,
including a former Deputy to our Leader had once suggested this Government In
Exile to our Leader, Kanu, but he did not buy into it knowing fully how
needless it is at this stage of our struggle.
“But unfortunately, now that our Leader is in detention,
these same elements saw it as an opportunity to actualise their selfish
ambition by quickly claiming to have set up the non-existent GIE. We know that
their ultimate aim is to use it to sell the Biafra struggle to our enemies but
they have failed woefully,” the statement added.
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