The Indigenous people of Biafra (IPOB) on Thursday took a swipe on the President of Ohanaeze Ndigbo, Nnia Nwodo for urging people to disregard the call by their leader, Nnamdi Kalu, for boycott of 2019 general election.

The group stressed that no amount of propaganda against IPOB and its leader can change the resolve they have towards influencing Biafrans to boycott the presidential elections next year.

A statement by IPOB's media and publicity secretary, Emma Powerful, reads in part: “Nnamdi Kanu is the supreme leader of IPOB, a situation the murderous Operation Python Dance wasn’t able to alter.

“Corrupt Fulani slaves in Biafraland must be reminded that IPOB is the people and people is IPOB.

“The one and only IPOB ably led by Mazi Nnamdi Kanu decided to boycott every election in Biafraland as far back as 2015 when Nnia Nwodo was nursing the ambition to become Enugu State governor, not even Ohanaeze leadership.

“It is apt to note that Mazi Nnamdi Kanu is as consistent as the Northern Star. He doesn’t change his position to suit prevailing political circumstance. All he does is geared towards the speedy recovery of Biafra from the clutches of darkness and iniquity called Nigeria.”

IPOB said that anybody or group thinking of changing its stance through carefully choreographed Fulani inspired propaganda and blackmail, is wasting their time.

The group insisted that Biafra land will be paralysed during next year's presidential elections saying that terrorists don’t vote.

Continuing, the statement said: “Those that proscribed IPOB and invited the python to dance in our land cannot have their cake and eat it. They know the right thing to do and until they do it, they will never ever be forgiven.

“We know this period of frenzied political activities is a time of money making for political jobbers through petty gossip, idle speculation and backstabbing. Therefore it didn’t come to us as a surprise that Chief John Nnia Nwodo and co have started again in their usual way of deceiving the general public by claiming Igbo World Assembly (IWA) hosted an event in Enugu when such event never happened.

“All the assurances from these compromised traitors and those aspiring to be like them for monetary gains from the north are fake because Biafrans will not vote come next year.

“Ohanaeze Ndigbo met last week Thursday at their national secretariat, Park Avenue Enugu, to brainstorm with Igbo IWA on how to sabotage IPOB’s no election campaign in Biafraland.

“After the meeting, they ended up issuing an already prepared press statement to the media that sought to give the erroneous impression that an actual public event held in Enugu on the said day.”

While reiterating that that IPOB proscription on Ohanaeze Ndigbo still stand and will never be rescinded, the group warned that any public gathering by Nnia Nwodo and his Ohanaeze Ndigbo anywhere in Biafraland would be disrupted.

The statement added: “We wish to state our position very clearly against any group that would like to cash in on the desperation of scrupulous politicians to make some quick money at the expense of IPOB that total humiliation awaits them.

“The minds of our people are made up, they only listen and understand the raw truth coming from IPOB and no other. The rant of these mushroom fake groups starts and ends on the pages of newspapers.

“Nnia Nwodo was appointed a minister of state twice by his Fulani masters and can never do without them. His father before him served the north and so also his brother Okwesilieze Nwodo who is presently living rent-free in one of Atiku Abubakar’s house in Abuja. So it is in their family interest that Biafrans vote in 2019.

“Chief John Nnia Nwodo publicly swore in Lagos to sabotage every effort by IPOB to restore Biafra, therefore any person or persons issuing joint statements or fraternizing with Ohanaeze Ndigbo led by Nnia Nwodo is an enemy of the people and must be regarded as such until the end of time. We are aware that countless meaningless supposed nonexistent groups and their faceless backers are springing up and readying themselves to be used against the Biafra restoration project. Such hungry individuals and groups are warned to steer clear before it’s too late for them or be ready to face the consequences that is about to come their way.”

IPOB warned that anybody meeting with Ohaneze president will not only be classified as a sellout but would be dealt with accordingly, adding that Biafra restoration project is divine and irreversible.

“Anybody working against it will incur the wrath of Most High God. Biafra is for all everybody, regardless of religion, ethnicity or orientation, therefore, we are not going to hesitate or fail to bring any saboteur to account,” the statement stated.

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