The Indigenous People of Biafra has once again insisted that those calling for no election or sit-at-home in the South-East during the forthcoming elections do not represent IPOB and are not IPOB family members.
The pro-Biafran group also said it is not interested in Nigerian elections, describing it as a “fraudulent process of selecting leaders”.
This was contained in a statement by the group’s Media and Publicity Secretary, Emma Powerful, on Thursday.
Powerful emphasised that IPOB has not called for any sit-at-home during the duration of the election and therefore, distance itself from any purported order in the South-East during the election.
The statement read in part, “IPOB, under the command and leadership of our leader Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, who is illegally detained in DSS solitary confinement, once more unequivocally and publicly declare our lack of interest in the Nigeria fraudulent selection process called elections coming up in this month February, 2023.
“We have stated for the umpteenth time that we have nothing to do with the Nigeria elections and have neither called for a boycott nor do we have the intention to call for an election boycott during these coming elections.
“Those calling for ‘no election’ and sit-at-home during the election period are simply paid agents whose sole motive is to discredit our self-determination movement by attempting to paint it as an anti-democratic force.