The Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) has again called for referendum that would allow for the actualization of Biafra.
IPOB reiterated its earlier call on Sunday, while noting that
happenings across Nigeria have vindicated its position that the country
was unsustainable.
The pro-Biafra group noted that all the injustice that necessitated
its call for secession were now being felt by all, including those that
opposed the ideology of its elusive leader,
Nnamdi Kanu.
According to IPOB, its call for referendum would allow people of the South East decide their destiny.
A statement by IPOB’s Media and Publicity Secretary, Emma Powerful
reads, Today, Nigeria is still paying a high cost in loss of human
lives, which unfortunately, includes a preponderance of Biafran lives,
for that decision of Yakubu Gowon. Nigeria is still paying in the form
of renewed genocide, now championed under the twin umbrella of a
lopsided Nigerian security forces and Fulani herdsmen.
In an era where armed Fulani men, emboldened by the acquiescence of
the Northern ruling class and complacency of the Presidency, unleash
murderous mayhem on unsuspecting civilian populations, we must spare a
thought for IPOB agitators brutally slaughtered for demanding to be
accorded their constitutionally guaranteed rights.
Ironically what IPOB is agitating for – freedom for all, is the only
approach that can solve the Fulani conundrum. Had the wider Nigerian
public not sided with the Buhari regime in their persecution of IPOB,
such blatant discriminatory and hypocritical approach to democratic
governance in Nigeria would not obtain. We steadfastly and
unapologetically maintain that the Nigerian union is unsustainable, only
free self governing nation states is the solution.
IPOB remains today, at the forefront of the new revolutionary change
sweeping across the land. Things can no longer be the same because all
the injustices that gave birth to our agitation for an independent
Biafran state are now being felt by all those that once stood in
opposition to the ideology of our prophet and leader Mazi Nnamdi Kanu.
As genocide looms in Nigeria today, IPOB restates the call for a
referendum to enable ordinary people decide their destiny. The fate of
160 million people cobbled together by Frederick Luggard in a horrible
experiment gone wrong cannot be determined by a morally bankrupt
leadership of old men who are past their retirement age.
In the face of all these, Biafrans have exercised uncommon restraint
and continue to demonstrate to the world their commitment to peaceful
agitation by refusing to take up arms for self-preservation. We have
chosen this route because we trust in a new international order that is
committed to protecting all oppressed peoples from genocide
