Labour Party presidential candidate, Mr. Peter Obi.
By BARBARA KALU, Awka –
The Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) has rejected Mr. Peter Obi, the presidential candidate of the Labour Party ahead of the 2023 general elections.
IPOB spokesman, Mr. Emmanuel Powerful, who made their stance known in a statement issued in Wednesday, said the separatist’s group is not interested in Igbo Presidency but the disintegration of Nigeria.
Peter Obi, who is one of the leading presidential candidates for the 2023 general elections hails from Anambra State in South East Nigeria.
Mr. Powerful, however maintained that IPOB supporters are not part of the OBidient movement, adding that its aim is to restore the Republic of Biafra, a country which seceded from Nigeria prior to the civil war and later rejoined the country after its defeat by the Nigerian military
He said: “The Igbo people rallying behind Peter Obi are not IPOB members because IPOB’s goal is the disintegration of the Nigerian enterprise irrespective of whether Peter Obi or anyone else from the Biafran geographic space is contesting in the Nigerian farce of an election.
“IPOB is a freedom fighting movement and has nothing whatsoever to do with or in Nigerian politics. So long as we in IPOB are concerned, Nigeria is irredeemable.”
“IPOB also reiterated its call for the release of its leader, Nnamdi Kanu, and a referendum in the South-East”, IPOB spokesman said in the statement.
