BIAFRA: IPOB,MASSOB Releases Strong Statement About Nigerian Presidency

BIAFRA: IPOB,MASSOB Releases Strong Statement About Nigerian Presidency

 

Following the claim is some quarters that President Muhammadu Buhari would handover to an Igbo man in 2019, the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, yesterday, stated categorically that the Igbo is no longer interested in the Nigerian presidency.

Emma Powerful, the groups spokesman while addressing  newsmen on Wednesday, said those flying the kite of Igbo presidency in 2019 were merely trying to make the agitators stop their protests.
IPOB however describing the claim as a political gimmick framed out to distract Ndigbo fighting for the actualization of their beloved Biafra, and reiterated that they were not interested in ruling Nigeria any longer.
Powerful said what IPOB wants is the to release their leader, Nnamdi Kanu from the detention and to allow Biafrans to cede from Nigeria.
According to him, politics of compensation came to play after the June 12, 1993 deadlock when the Yorubas were compensated with Obasanjo presidency in place of M.K.O. Abiola’s annulled election.
He said same applied to President Buhari, who he claimed was compensated because of Boko Haram insurgency.
His words: “If politics of compensation was used to favour Obasanjo in place of June 12 annulment and was also used to favour Buhari in place insurgency, that is their own cup of tea.
“But for us in IPOB, we are not interested in that politics of compensation whereby we are being told that an Igboman will become Nigeria’s president in 2019.

 

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