ENUGU, Nigeria (VOICE OF NAIJA)- The proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) has denied attacking Labour Party (LP) campaign ground in Enugu State on Sunday
According to the group, those behind the attack were sponsored by Nigerian Government and Security Agencies particularly, DSS and Army Personnel.
Recall that gunmen, numbering about four, had attacked members of the party who were holding a meeting in Awgu Community, Awgu Local Government Area.
But IPOB in a statement by its Media and Publicity Secretary, Emma Powerful, on Wednesday, said it has no hands in the criminal activities.
The group reiterated that its members remained peaceful and focused on how to secure referendum date.
It warned that those hired for such impersonation and demonization would soon incur the wraths of its volunteers and Eastern Security Network (ESN) operatives.
The statement reads in part: “We condemn those who used the IPOB and Biafra insignias in what we knew as State sponsored attack on the Labour Party campaign 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 ground. If IPOB wish to do so we will make it open and Nigeria Government and its Security Agencies will hear the sound.
“Anybody or crimial groups hired for such impersonation and demonization will soon incure the wraths 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 Military planned to hire some criminals to attack campaign grounds to incriminate IPOB and ESN in the East with Biafra flags and insignias and tag it on ESN members we did not attack campaign ground.
“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. Nigeria Security Agencies keep desecrating Biafra flags any time they are carrying out their cheap and dirty blackmail against IPOB.
“IPOB has made it known to the public severally that we are not interested in the jamboree selection process they called Nigeria election. Anybody linking IPOB in whatever way to this their jamboree is deluded.
“IPOB is very sure that it was Nigeria Government and her compromised Security Agencies particularly DSS and Army Personnels that sponsored some of their men with some criminal gangs they created to attack Labour Party campaign ground and made it look like IPOB volunteers and ESN operatives attack them, we are not involved.
“We are telling the public that IPOB has no hands on this criminal activities because IPOB don’t care about what happens with demonized Nigeria politics. The Nigeria Army, DSS agents must leave IPOB alone and focus on their jamboree jobs they are doing without protecting their citizens in Nigeria.
“IPOB is not a problem but a solution to free trapped talents and Indigenous from terrorists infested country called Nigeria. IPOB members are peaceful and focused on how to secure referendum date same day they do their selection process called Nigeria election.
“IPOB is not planning only to scatter Nigeria, because we have scattered Nigeria already. What remains of Nigeria is total disintegration, every trapped Indigenous People will be free. And that we must do in due cause so long as Chukwu Okike Abiama is backing this noble family and Biafra Movement.”