Ipob warns Kwankwaso to stop linking it with Peter Obi as it does not share the same values as him

SECESSIONIST group the Indigenous People of Biafra (Ipob) has warned the former Kano State governor Senator Rabiu Kwankwaso to desist from associating it with the Labour Party presidential candidate Peter Obi because they do not believe in him.

Next year, Nigeria goes to the polls to elect a new president with the four front runners being Senator Kwankwaso of the New Nigerian Peoples Party, former Anambra State governor Peter Obi of the Labour Party, former Lagos State governor Asiwaju Tinubu of the All Progressives Congress and former vice president Atiku Abubakar of the Peoples Democratic party. Ipob has stressed that it is not interested in any of the candidates or Nigeria's corrupt and fraudulent politics, as its target is the liberation of the Biafran people.

In response to a recent statement by Senator Kwankwaso, Ipob warned him not to link them with Governor Obi as was neither was he their member and he never supported their cause at any point in time. Ipob spokesman Emma Powerful, said a recent statement from Senator Kwankwaso indicating that the group supported Governor Obi was erroneous.

Mr Powerful said: “The global family of the Indigenous People of Biafra, under the command and leadership of our great leader, Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, wishes to advise the former Kano State governor Rabiu Kwankwoso not to involve us in the selection process they call election in Nigeria. The Nigerian politicians generally and Kwankwaso, in particular, should desist from linking Ipob with Peter Obi, his political ambition and his campaign.

"Peter Obi is not an Ipob member and never supported our agitation for freedom at any time because he pursues a totally different goal from that of the Indigenous People of Biafra. We have no interest in the Nigerian morally decadent and fantastically corrupt political system and landscape.

“If Kwankwaso is threatened by Labour party and Peter Obi’s teeming support by the creative and talented but downtrodden, neglected, deceived, deprived, killed Nigerian youths from even the north which your generation do not have any good intentions for, then he should go forward and settle his differences and stop linking Ipob to their problem. Ipob is a disciplined movement and we do not speak from both sides of the mouth.

"Our singular objective is to extricate our people from the debilitating environment that prevents Biafrans from attaining our fullest potential as human beings, exit from the contraption called Nigeria and be able to determine our fate through putting to use our intrinsic endowments and ingenuity in an enabling environment in a free and independent Biafran nation. Peter Obi is not a member of Ipob and he is neither agitating nor in support of our self determination struggle.

"Why associate him with Ipob’s struggle for freedom. IPOB does not know who Peter Obi is going by our biodata bank. Our demand is our inalienable rights to self-determination and this we seek through a universally recognised and accepted political process called referendum as stipulated by the United Nations Charter.

“Ipob wishes to use this medium and opportunity to warn every politician in Nigeria to desist from linking it with their politics and selection process because we are not politicians and have no common interest. We are freedom fighters.”