IPOB exposes those behind attack on Peter Obi’s rallies in Southeast

The Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) has fingered some agents of government and enemies of Biafra as those behind the attacks on members of the Labour Party during their rallies in Enugu state.

It would be recalled that gunmen last weekend attacked members of the Labour Party (LP) who were holding a meeting in Awgu Community, Awgu Local Government Area of Enugu State.

The gunmen, numbering about four, were said to have stormed the venue of the meeting and shot sporadically causing the party members to flee.

Reacting in a statement on Thursday, said the impersonators used IPOB’s insignias with the intention of making the group take the fall for their nefarious activities in the Southeast region.

In the statement signed by IPOB’s Media and Publicity Secretary, Emma Powerful, the group said its members are peaceful and would not contemplate threatening or attacking election rally grounds, saying that if it wished to engage in any political activity, it would make it open and the Nigerian Government and its security agencies will hear the sound.

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“We, the global family and movement of the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, under the command and leadership of Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, condemn those who used the IPOB and Biafra insignias in what we knew as state sponsored attack on the Labour Party rally ground in Enugu State to blackmail IPOB.

“IPOB, under the command and leadership of Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, never instructed anyone to threaten or attack election campaign grounds. If IPOB wishes to do so, we will make it open and the Nigerian government and its security agencies will hear the sounds.

“Anybody or criminal group hired for such impersonation and demonization will soon incur the wrath of IPoB volunteers and ESN operatives.

“Our intelligence unit, the M.Branch, intercepted the secret arrangements where some few Fulani soldiers and terrorists in Nigeria security agencies, especially DSS and the military, planned to hire some criminals to attack rally grounds to incriminate IPOB and ESN with Biafra flags and insignias and tag it on ESN members when we did not attack campaign grounds.

“In doing so, they forgot that IPOB and ESN will not in any way desecrate the hallowed Biafra flag in the name of political attacks,” the group said in the statement made available to Ripples Nigeria.