…You’ve lost focus, US, UK members reply IPOB — 23rd April 2016

THE crisis in the Indigenous People of Biafra
(IPOB) degenerated yesterday, as, its
Government/ Media Representative, Chinedu
Asuzu berated two of the organisation’s chief­
tains- Mr Clifford Iroanya and Emma Mmezu,
accusing them of having lost the
organisation’s traditional values and as such
should be disregarded.
Chinedu was reacting to a statement credited
to the duo resident in the United States of
America and the United Kingdom respectively.
The two had reportedly accused the Deputy
Chairman of the Supreme Council of Elders of
Indigenous People of Biafra, Dr Dozie Ikedife,
as a ‘stooge’ of the ruling APC government
under President Muhammadu Buhari.
But, the group’s spokesman said the
statement was unfortunate and lacked logic.
His words: “Ours is a respected and
responsible group. Dr Ikedife is among the
courageous elders in Igboland that was instru­
mental to the Biafra legal suit against Nigerian
Government .This is verifiable with Suit
No FHC/OW/ CS/192/2013.It is also on
record that Clifford Iroanya and his cohorts
wrote Nigerian Government to discontinue
this celebrated court case as they believe in
violence to achieve Biafra. But that is not
possible.
On the issue of Nnamdi Kanu-led IPOB being
a global giant, Chinedu explained that the
IPOB is not a group, but a people scattered all
over the world demanding a separate exis­
tence from Nigeria. He told the press that the
Nigerian Government knew the real people
behind the Biafran struggle were men of prov­
en integrity.
In the same vein, the Chief Editor of Biafra
Voice International, UK, Comrade Nnabuike
Nnadede, said that the Biafran agitators were
lucky to have a leader such as Dr Ikedife,
Ikenga Nnewi. The media chief advised all
Biafrans to come under the authority of the
Supreme Council of Elders of Indigenous
People of Biafra, to be taken serious by the
international community, “rather than join
noise makers and people who are frustrated,
dejected and jobless, seeking relevance…”
Meanwhile, an octogenarian and pro-Biafra ac­
tivist, Sir R.O.Okereke, has made a fresh call
for another dimension to actualize the self-
determination dream of the more than 15
states in Nigeria to be known as the United
States of Biafra.
Okereke, who spoke in Ozubulu, Ekwusigo Lo­
cal Government Area of Anambra State, said
that the general elections of 2015 in which the
All Progressives Congress (APC) won in 20
and a half states and the Peoples Democratic
Party (PDP), 15 and a half clearly indicated
that those in the PDP states should come
together by way of diplomacy and present to
the United Nations, European Union and
African Union their choice of government and
interim officers for early approval and take off
period.