From Stanley Uzoaru,Owerri
The Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) has distanced itself from the attack on a United States Embassy convoy in Anambra State, saying those accusing it were the real masterminds of the attacks. He also warned those linking the Presidential candidate of the Labour Party (LP) Peter Obi to the attack to desist from making such wild allegations.
Spokesperson of the group, Emma Powerful who disclosed this in a statement said Obi’s mandate is divine and can never be truncated by anyone. He said those behind the attack were also responsible for killing most of its innocent members in the South-East.
“Their quest to blackmail IPOB globally has led them into assassinating innocent people in Biafra Land. For instance, these government agents assassinated Alhaji Gulak in Owerri, and they assassinated an Army couple in an undisclosed location in Biafra.
“They assassinated Dr. Akunyili in Anambra (late Dora Akunyili’s husband). In all these and many more of the state sponsored murder cases, IPOB was accused, and till date the police never conducted an investigation on any of them. Powerful also argued that its intelligence unit saved ex British High Commissioner, Catrioner Laing in 2022 from being killed when she planned visiting the country. “This recent attack on the US Embassy convoy is likely another state sponsored attack to discredit the peaceful IPOB movement and to make South East more unsafe for investors to continue coming to Biafra to invest. Again, they are late because our call for investors has already started yielding fruit. Those linking Peter Obi to these attacks on US Embassy convoy are the ones that fingers are pointing to in regard to the crisis happening in the South East. There is no way they can link innocent Peter Obi to it because he is from Anambra State. Does that mean that all the attacks happening in Adamawa Katsina states were caused by Alhaji Atiku Abubakar and Buhari in Aso Rock, respectively? What is the justification to link Peter Obi to the criminalities going on in the South-East? “We are aware that several terrorism and banditry groups in the North are sponsored by the unscrupulous elements around them there. We should be asking, why are they mentioning Peter Obi?
“Is it because he summoned up courage to contest their selection process called election and won by a landslide? They are now robbing him of the mandate given him by the people of Nigeria because he is an Igbo man,” the statement noted.