Indigenous People of Biafra IPOB, has declared that the October 1 2017 deadline given the Igbos to vacate the Northern States by the Arewa Youth Forum and supported by Northern Elders is a justification for its demand for Biafra freedom from Nigeria and its call for a referendum to decide the fate of ethnic nationalities in Nigeria.
In a statement signed by IPOB Media and Publicity Secretary, Emma Powerful, it said “We the IPOB want to use this opportunity to thanked the Arewa Elders Forum, AEF, Arewa Youths and Arewa Consultative Forum for seeing sense in what IPOB has been saying about the need for a referendum to be conducted in Nigeria to decide the fate of the component ethnic nationalities criminally lumped together by the British in 1914.”
“Biafrans’ in general also wish to thank these vocal Northerners for at least having the courtesy to issue advance warning this time before embarking on their routine massacre of Igbos and other Biafrans living in Northern Nigeria.
“Unlike what their fathers did in 1966 when death, destruction and mayhem were unleashed upon unsuspecting innocent civilian populations from the South comprising of mostly Igbo men, women and children.
“Igbo massacres in Northern Nigeria have occurred so many times that it has almost become some sort of an annual sporting activity for blood thirsty Northern youths.
“We are particularly grateful to Arewa Youths and Elders for having the decency to give us prior notice before their routine slaughter commences.
“We promise to adhere to your warning to leave Northern Nigeria because a word is enough for the wise.
“Biafrans and other Southerner should start packing their properties to come down to the South.
“We also advice the Northern youths and their Elders to keep it on because all they have done is exercise their right to free speech which is not a crime under any law known to man.
“We are therefore against those calling for the arrest of these Arewa Youths and their Elders.
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“It is abundantly evident from the genocidal statements coming from certain influential segments of Northern Nigeria that the British sociopolitical experimentation and economic fraud we know today as a country, should not have been created in the first place.
“IPOB is very much aware of the covert blackmail and implied threat inherent in the utterances emanating from Islamic Northern Nigeria.”
Continuing IPOB said, “The assumption that economic investments of Biafrans in the Northern part of the Nigeria is an impediment to Biafra restoration project is misguided and most definitely misplaced.
“This is cheap blackmail designed to trigger rancour among Biafra populations because the North have always assumed and wrongly too, that Igbos will place economic well-being over and above their life.
“This assumption is based on a false premise and we are determined to prove same as events unfold in the coming weeks and months.”
“IPOB under the divine leadership of Mazi Nnamdi Kanu is the instrument Chukwu Okike Abiama (God Almighty) is using to restore Biafra, therefore we are not afraid of our enemies neither will any threat or violence from any quarter deter us.
“We remain peaceful in our noble quest to restore Biafra but we must caution that we always retain the right as a people to defend ourselves should the need arise.
“The civilized world is aware that we IPOB have been adopting peaceful means to restore Biafra since 2014.
“It is the Arewa Islamic Northern Nigeria dominated Army, Police, Navy and Civil Defense that has brought torture, killings, massacres and mayhem to communities and populations in the South.
“Till date, nobody has been held to account despite the existence of a comprehensive Amnesty International report to this effect.
“We are aware that these Northern youths and their sponsors have perfected plans to begin another round of killing of innocent people as they did in 1966.
“We advise them not to make the mistake again because Britain will no longer protect them again because in this digital age, the world is watching.
“Allow Biafrans time to relocate peacefully back to Biafra land, that is all we ask.”
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