2023: IPOB says it has no plans to disrupt election in Igboland

The Biafra separatist group IPOB on Saturday said it has no plan to disrupt election in Igboland in 2023.

The group’s spokesman, Emma Powerful, who made the disclosure in a statement, said there is no truth in any information circulating on alleged plans to disrupt election in 2023 in Igboland.

A breakaway member of IPOB, Simon Ekpa had in a recent video on social media platforms, said the group would not let any election hold in Biafraland.

But in a press release on behalf of IPOB on Saturday, Powerful distanced the separatist group from Ekpa’s utterances.

“The IPOB leadership has for umpteenth time stated unequivocally that part of our modus operandi in our agitation for freedom has never been, is not, and will not be violent agitation, the statement reads.

“This explains our consistent demand for the UN to organise a Referendum in the Biafran territory for the Biafran people to determine their destiny. To this effect, IPOB is neither contemplating nor will it encouraged or sponsor anyone or group to disrupt Nigeria shambolic selection process called election.

“IPOB has constantly made it public that we have no interest in and cannot legitimise the aberration they call election in Nigeria. We are a focused, determined, and disciplined freedom fighting movement, not political thugs, and IPOB is devoted to the cause of liberating our people from subjugation and from modern day slavery and Neo-colonialism and will not allow ourselves to be distracted from this very objective.”

“IPOB is not interested and will never involve ourselves in any Nigeria fraudulent pre-election or post-election issues. Our job is to open the eyes of the blinds by the gospel of truth which our leader has delivered already.

“Whoever that is sponsoring any group or gang tagging them IPOB is on his/her own. For those who are hard of hearing, IPOB is one indivisible family under one central command and leadership.

“If in the future IPOB leadership decides to make further statement on the upcoming Nigeria selection process called election, we shall make such statement through our official channels.”