The leadership of the Indigenous People Of Biafra (IPOB), has described individuals who gathered in Finland to redeclare the defunct United State of Biafra as morons.
NewsBand reported that the supporters of the self-acclaimed Prime Minister of Biafra Government in Exile, Mr. Simon Ekpa, re-declared the United States of Biafra on December 2, 2024.
Ekpa’s followers gathered in Lahti to declare the utopia nation after he was arrested by the Finnish authorities for terror related activities.
A large number of agitators gathered in Finland for the event titled, ‘Biafra Mass Exodus 2024’.
Mrs. Ngozi Orabueze, who claim to be a Chief of Staff to Simon Ekpa, presided over the convention.
Orabueze, a practicing nurse and former chairperson of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Atlanta, United States posted updates about the declaration, which included plans to adopt a new currency and time zone.
She said, “Biafra has been re-declared today, 29th of November 2024,” she announced, adding, “Power belongs to the people”.
But reacting to the declaration in a statement, the spokesman of IPOB, Mr. Emma Powerful blamed some Nigerian politicians of masterminding the sham declaration.
He said the shambolic gathering of content creators in Finland under the auspices of phantom and ridiculously Biafra Government in Exile, was a joke and a shameless attempt to discredit the genuine agitation of IPOB for an independent homeland for the people of Biafra.
“The Noble family and movement of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) led by Mazi Nnamdi Kanu wishes to put the record straight about the second declaration in Finland, following the shambolic gathering of content creators in Finland a few days ago, under the auspices of a phantom and ridiculously named Biafra Government in Exile, where it was claimed Biafra was declared yet again, we the members of the great and noble IPOB worldwide under the leadership of Mazi Nnamdi Kanu do wish to make the following clarifications:
“Those leveraging on this disgraceful episode in Finland by a bunch of morons, should be guided in their utterances because it has become apparent that these traducers and agents of oppression have gone into overdrive in their quest to ascribe unjustified importance to an event that was in essence a joke and a shameless attempt to discredit the genuine agitation of IPOB for an independent homeland for the people of Biafra. All those in positions of power in Nigeria that sponsored this joke called declaration in Finland in the hope of damaging the global standing of IPOB should cover their faces in shame”, the statement partly reads.
Speaking further in the statement, Powerful said in their attempt to destroy IPOB at all cost, they ended up according notoriety to a nonentity that proclaimed himself prime minister from a one-bedroom flat on the 20th floor of a housing project somewhere in Finland.
“In their desperation to destroy IPOB by any and every means and at all cost, they ended up according notoriety to a nonentity that proclaimed himself prime minister from a one-bedroom flat on the 20th floor of a housing project somewhere in Finland.
“The myriad of statements purportedly emanating from some of these recruited faceless individuals on social media and belatedly from alleged Igala groups and PANDEF, disassociating themselves from Biafra is not only pathetic but laughable. For the thousandth time, we wish to make it abundantly clear that ancient Igboland spans 13 states of Nigeria. These are not areas occupied by Igbo speaking people but are ancient Igbo land with Igbo people in them. Therefore the hate inspired, politically motivated gerrymandering of borders in Igboland to create the misleading impression that Igboland and Igbo people are confined to only 5 states of the Southeast is a lie this IPOB shall confront and will continue to confront until the truth is not only acknowledged but acted upon via the instrumentality of a United Nations supervised referendum as was the case in Southern Sudan, the newest state to emerge in Africa.
“Those in Igala and PANDEF that claim they don’t want anything to do with Biafra, must also know and accept that Igboland in these territories Gowon and the British ceded to the North, Mid-West and the so-called South South will eternally be Igboland and no jupiter will change this irrefutable fact. When the Nigerian state balkanised ancient Igboland by carving these territories into their newly created ‘non-Igbo’ states, nobody complained because IPOB had not come by then. Now that God has determined that we must come, we IPOB are here and we say without any fear of contradiction that Igboland is one and indivisble, from those carved into Kogi State to Bayelsa and from those in Cross River to Edo.
“Our great leader Mazi Nnamdi Kanu is on record as having said repeatedly that no ethnic group, tribe or clan will be forced to become part of Biafra. Biafra shall be a model nation founded along the principles of confederacy as obtains in Switzerland and the United Arab Emirates, with the consent of the people wilfully expressed in a UN supervised referendum. PANDEF and our brothers in Igalaland should wait for an opportunity to express their preference in a referendum before deciding where they wish to belong or not. We must also be guided by the fact that the wonderful people of Obosi in Anambra State have within them those who are descended from the land of Igala in present day Kogi State. If in doubt ask the Attah of Obosi. We Biafrans are republican by nature and no single human being can arrogate powers unto himself without the consent of the people. Therefore, there can never be any government or prime minister without the consent of every Biafran, willfully expressed in a widely accepted democratic process. In other words, to be the head of state, prime minister or any officer of state in Biafra, you must be voted for by the people.
“Biafra is a project ordained by our Almighty God himself and no amount of subterfuge, deceit, lies, murder, kidnapping or persecution will make us deviate from this peaceful path to freedom.
“The fact that a buffoon who has never visited Biafraland in his adult life, never led a movement or protest, never met our leader in person, decided to make a mockery of himself and his sponsors, should not become the lens through which the legitimate agitation for Biafra Independence championed by IPOB should be viewed”, the statement added.
