INDICATIONS emerged yesterday pointing
to a serious crisis rocking the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), with
emergence of a new faction Reformed Indigenous People of Biafra (RE-IPOB)
stating that Nnamdi Kanu’s IPOB and one other group, TRIPOB led by Chima Philip
Effiong Osuji are no longer holding their mandate, and therefore cannot speak
for Biafra.
According to a report, the spokesperson
for the new group, Ikemba Biafra, said its leader will be formally unveiled on
August 29 and stressed that it has sacked the IPOB led by the detained Director
of Radio Biafra, Nnamdi Kanu, and the Chima Philip Effiong Osuji-led TRIPOB, claiming
that both groups no longer have the mandate to speak for Biafra....
He added that the new group is
available for dialogue with the federal government on the resolution of the
crisis, though cautioned on the continued harassment of Biafrans by security
agencies.
“Both IPOB and TRIPOB have been
sacked; they should no longer speak for the Biafran people. We warn that if
Nnamdi Kanu, IPOB and the so-called TRIPOB continue their antics,
RE-IPOB will be forced to make public the sponsors of the two groups.
RE-IPOB will not accede to the burning of the Biafran flag as the sacked
TRIPOB planned. The Biafran flag is sacred to Biafrans.”
“If the Federal Government is
sincere in its dialogue with RE-IPOB, then the Biafran flag can be exchanged
with the Nigerian flag in the presence of President Muhammadu Buhari, the
National Security Adviser, Director of State Security and the Elders of Biafra.
If the dialogue is fruitful; then a peace treaty and a ‘no victor no
vanquished tree’ will be planted at Gakem where the first shot of the Nigerian
Civil war started and at Amichi, Nnewi where the formal cessation of
hostilities of the war began”, the spokesperson reportedly said.
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