The Indigenous People of Biafra leadership has lashed out at the facilitators and purveyors of the “IgboMustGo” campaign in the South-Western part of the country, saying it was high time they convoked a referendum for the Igbo to exit.
Ipob leaders said the leaders and authorities in the South-West were treating the “IgboMustGo” campaign and its proponents with a wave of the hand, adding the Igbo people were already ‘on the ground and feared no fall’.
The group said, indications abound that sponsors of the “IgboMustGo” proponents were highly placed individuals within the Lagos State and Federal Governments, urging Southerners to be cautious of their actions in the South-Western region.
IPOB Director of Media and Publicity, Emma Powerful, said this in a statement on Monday, a copy of which was made available to The PUNCH.
The statement read, “Following the provocative and genocidal “IgboMustGo” proposed protest slated to commence from August 20-30th 2024, by some faceless Yoruba groups and persons.
Ndigbo would not give in to pressure from any group or individual to abandon any state or area in Nigeria.
The story that Mr. Babajide Sanwo-Olu, the governor of Lagos State, hypnotically condemned the organizers of the “Igbo Must Go” rally is absurd.
With his discriminatory pillaging of Ndigbo’s businesses, assets, and properties in Lagos State, the governor was the first to ethnically profile the Ndigbo people.
It’s likely that prominent figures in the federal and Lagos State governments are funding the “IgboMustGo” campaign.
It’s likely that prominent figures in the federal and Lagos State governments are funding the “IgboMustGo” campaign.
The governor was the first to discriminatorily demolish Ndigbo enterprises, assets, and investments in Lagos State, so creating an ethnic profile for the group.
We want to alert the international community to the existential threat that Nigeria’s Ndigbo nation face.
The Human Rights Organizations, United Nations, European Union, African Union, and all freedom-loving people should be aware that the Biafran people are an endangered species in Nigeria.
In Nigeria, there has been a clear case of ethnic profiling and prejudice against Ndigbo in the fields of politics, economics, and security.
Silencing the push for a Biafra referendum is indirectly endorsing genocide, it continued.
