From Stanley Uzoaru, Owerri
The Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) has urged the Nigerian media to stop linking the Biafra Government in Exile, a separatist group purportedly based in Finland, to its members.
Spokesman of IPOB, Emma Powerful, who disclosed this in a statement released to newsmen on Tuesday, claimed that those behind the group have already identified themselves.
His statement reads in part: “A person that declared himself as Biafra Prime Minister of a Finland-based phantom Biafra Government in Exile is sufficient to address the criminal and the minds of journalists to the constituency which he represents.
“The phantom Biafra Government in Exile is not part of the IPOB nomenclature, and persistent association of these content creators to the legitimate aspirations of Biafrans championed by the great IPOB worldwide should not be muddled up to serve a dangerous intent of tarnishing the impeccable image of IPOB.
“Media houses are enjoined to stop referencing content creators to IPOB with the content creator in Finland prison.
“If the media houses continue joining the content creator to the great family of IPOB led by Mazi Nnamdi Okwuchukwu Kanu, we are going to refer to them as those who are fighting to destroy peaceful IPOB and Mazi Nnamdi Kanu.
“IPOB is not part of them, and Nigerian media and bloggers should stop linking them to IPOB. They have declared their freedom and independence, mentioned their created states; what remains now is to tell the public their seats of power in Biafraland.
“IPOB remains what it was from the beginning and will not shift ground until Biafra independence is fully announced by the United Nations,” Powerful stated.