The
Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, has reacted to the All Progressives Grand
Alliance’s (APGA) statement warning its leader Nnamdi Kanu to stop parading himself as Igbo emperor.
The
group in a statement by its media and publicity secretary, Emma Powerful, made
available to BIAFRA CHOICE WRITERS said the political
party is simply filled with jealousy.
It
also accused the party of complicity in the various massacres of Igbo youths in
Anambra State.
The
statement read in full: “We the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) and it’s
leadership worldwide view the childish antics of the All Progressive Grand
Alliance (APGA) as a jealously laden, derisory attempt to deflect attention
away from the fact that APGA as the governing party in Anambra State has been
responsible for the death of innocent Biafrans numbering over 2000. The two
notable instances being the infamous Ezu River bodies and the heinous massacres
at Nkpor and Head Bridge Onitsha respectively. Peter Obi and Willie Obiano,
both from APGA, superintended the wholesale slaughter of innocent unarmed
Biafrans on both occasions. They employed wholesale slaughter of their people
as a way of stopping the agitation for restoration of Biafra not knowing that
we are prepared to keep dying until Biafra is restored as we swore.
“In
the purported letter written by the party in Anambra State threatening a
showdown with IPOB led by Mazi Nnamdi Kanu which gave order of no election in
all Biafraland starting from Anambra Gubernatorial election come November this
year 2017, APGA failed to mention the fact that Biafrans and IPOB in particular
campaigned and voted for both Peter Obi and Willie Obiano but were rewarded
with shoot at sight orders issued by both men.
“It is very unfortunate
that APGA as a political party preoccupied with feathering the nests of a
select few, underestimate the desire of every genuine Biafran to be liberated
from the slavery and bondage that Nigeria has come to represent. APGA is
motivated by personal greed and self aggrandisement unlike IPOB that is purely
focused on the liberation of our people and by extension, other oppressed
people in Nigeria.
“The
spurious and childish accusation that our leader Mazi Nnamdi Kanu who is also
the Director of Radio Biafra and Biafra Television to stop parading himself as
emperor smacks more of envy borne out of desperation than a reasoned assertion.
There is no one more humble than the IPOB leader, that is why he is loved by
millions, so the little anti Biafra rant by APGA will only encourage us the
more to ensure that the lockdown of Anambra State come 18 November 2017 is
total and compete. We would prove to APGA that our leader Mazi Nnamdi Kanu has
never in his life, since the inception of IPOB, indulged himself or arrogated
any powers to himself. He has advisers, but more critically he is under the
guidance of the supreme Almighty Creator Chukwu Okike Abiama that sent him.
Mazi Nnamdi Kanu is an easy going, caring and deeply passionate person when it
comes to Biafra. The perverse insinuation that he made himself a god is a
clever ploy designed to appeal to the envious nature of certain individuals who
wish to be like him but can never.
“It is insulting for a
party that supervised the killing of thousands of IPOB family members, which
they connived with the APC Government of Buhari to cover up, to be advising the
same people they killed to turn against IPOB. History will remember the All
Progressive Grand Alliance (APGA) as the party that murdered those that voted
her into power.
“The
founding father APGA General Dim Chukwuemeka Oduegwu Ojukwu will be turning in
his grave because of the way Willie Obiano and co used the party as a vehicle
to murder thousands of people seeking out collective freedom. Today,
incompetent hands and political contractors in the society have ruined the
party, they have turned the party into a killer political machine that appear
harmless during campaigns, only to unleash terror on innocent citizens once
they are enthroned in office.
“We
are not deterred by the noise coming from APGA because after November 2017 they
will cease to exist as a political force because they killed innocent Biafrans
fighting for the liberation of all of us. We stand strongly to tell the whole
world the position of IPOB under the command leadership of Mazi Nnamdi Kanu
that we IPOB will not be participating in any party politics or electioneering
in Anambra State on elsewhere for that matter. All we are asking for is a date
for referendum not war so the people of Biafra can decide their fate in this
abominable entity called Nigeria.
“The political
vampires claiming to be APGA members and other politicians in Biafraland should
know that if Nigeria Government fail to give Biafrans a date for referendum to
ascertain the will of the people in no distant time, there will be no more
elections in Biafraland.
“Every
sensible human being, civilized and lettered person or group in the whole world
knows that quest for self determination is not a call for war and also a call
for referendum is not in any way tangled with any hate speech. We hope men and
women of good conscience and integrity can assimilate the meaning of the words
referendum and self determination, then prevail on Nigeria Government to fix a
date for referendum for the people of Biafra. We maintain that we are not
asking for war or confrontation of any sort, we need referendum to settle this
burning issue concerning Biafra, no more no less. Only those who regard self
determination and referendum as a call for war are the uncivilised and
uneducated ones here.”

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