The Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, has described the purported declaration of the Biafra Republic by some alleged members of the group in Finland as a scam.
Dissociating IPOB from the event, the pro-Biafran group in a statement issued by Emma Powerful, its spokesman, urged the people to ignore the declaration.
He accused those behind the event in Finland as being responsible for sponsoring the spate of insecurity in the South-east.
Furthermore, Powerful alleged that those behind the declaration have the intention to cause confusion and division in the South-east, adding that the late Dim Chukwuemeka Odumegwu-Ojukwu, declared in 1967 and, therefore, any other declaration is by “infiltrators” is fake.
“The noble family of IPOB led by the leader, Mazi Nnamdi Kanu wishes to disassociate itself from the purported Biafra second declaration by an infamous no-name group. The so-called declaration is a scam. There is no room for another Biafra declaration besides the one our eternal leader, Dim Odimegwu Ojukwu, declared in 1967,” the statement part read.
“IPOB wishes to commend responsible media organisations and social media bloggers in Nigeria and in the Diaspora that didn’t give attention to the mockery of the Biafra struggle by infiltrators in Finland and elsewhere.
“However, it is imperative to inform the international community, Biafrans, friends of Biafra, and lovers of Biafran freedom that Biafra had been declared by our eternal leader late Dim Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu in 1967.