{"id":73143,"date":"2022-09-27T13:51:22","date_gmt":"2022-09-27T12:51:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/uncategorized\/attacks-we-are-bigger-than-your-political-strategies-ipob-warns-fg"},"modified":"2022-09-27T15:13:12","modified_gmt":"2022-09-27T14:13:12","slug":"attacks-we-are-bigger-than-your-political-strategies-ipob-warns-fg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/attacks-we-are-bigger-than-your-political-strategies-ipob-warns-fg","title":{"rendered":"Attacks: We are bigger than your political strategies \u2013 IPOB warns FG"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. <\/strong><\/span>The Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) has warned the Federal Government to desist from linking it to attacks being carried out in the Southeastern part of the country.<\/p>\n<p>The government had severally said the attacks on security personnel and government facilities in the region were being carried out by the secessionist group and its security wing, the Eastern Security Network, ESN.<\/p>\n<p>But in a statement on Monday, the IPOB spokesman Emma Powerful, restated that the proscribed group has no hand in the attacks.<\/p>\n<p>The separatists warned that anyone linking the group and its militant wing, the ESN to any attack, is deluded and would regret it.<\/p>\n<p>According to Emma Powerful, the IPOB is not concerned with Nigerian politics, stressing that it\u2019s only interested in referendum to determine the fate of Biafra as a sovereign nation.<\/p>\n<p>The group insisted that anything short of a United Nations, UN, supervised referendum to determine their secession, it would not be interested in any national affairs, describing the Nigerian election as a selection process.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNigeria Government should leave IPOB\/ESN alone. We are bigger than their political strategies. They can link or lure other groups into Nigeria Politics but not IPOB because we remain focused on our mission and can\u2019t be attracted to what we abhor.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe abhor anything in Nigeria and can\u2019t be attracted to what we have rejected.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe only political process that IPOB will participate in is a UN supervised Biafra Referendum that will usher in Biafra Sovereignty and Independence.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnyone intending to link ESN Operative, Volunteers, including IPOB members in their planned political attacks is deluded and regret will always be their portion,\u201d the group said.<\/p>\n<p><strong>For More News And Analysis About <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\">Nigeria<\/a> Follow <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/\">Africa-Press<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. The Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) has warned the Federal Government to desist from linking it to attacks being carried out in the Southeastern part of the country. The government had severally said the attacks on security personnel and government facilities in the region were being carried out by the secessionist group [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":73142,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,29,28,14,26],"tags":[1570,2140,2051,199,254],"class_list":["post-73143","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-head-lines","category-homepage-english","category-policy","category-twitter","tag-africa-press","tag-africa-press-nigeria-2","tag-attacks","tag-ipob","tag-nigeria"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Attacks: We are bigger than your political strategies \u2013 IPOB warns FG - Nigeria<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) has warned the Federal Government to desist from linking it to attacks being carr ...\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/attacks-we-are-bigger-than-your-political-strategies-ipob-warns-fg\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Attacks: We are bigger than your political strategies \u2013 IPOB warns FG\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) has warned the Federal Government to desist from linking it to attacks being carr ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/attacks-we-are-bigger-than-your-political-strategies-ipob-warns-fg\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Nigeria\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2022-09-27T12:51:22+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2022-09-27T14:13:12+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2022\/09\/postQueueImg_14-633304da90819.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1280\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"720\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/attacks-we-are-bigger-than-your-political-strategies-ipob-warns-fg#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/attacks-we-are-bigger-than-your-political-strategies-ipob-warns-fg\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"Attacks: We are bigger than your political strategies \u2013 IPOB warns FG\",\"datePublished\":\"2022-09-27T12:51:22+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2022-09-27T14:13:12+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/attacks-we-are-bigger-than-your-political-strategies-ipob-warns-fg\"},\"wordCount\":301,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/attacks-we-are-bigger-than-your-political-strategies-ipob-warns-fg#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2022\/09\/postQueueImg_14-633304da90819.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Africa Press\",\"Africa Press-Nigeria\",\"attacks\",\"IPOB\",\"Nigeria\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"head lines\",\"homepage-english\",\"Policy\",\"twitter\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/attacks-we-are-bigger-than-your-political-strategies-ipob-warns-fg#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/attacks-we-are-bigger-than-your-political-strategies-ipob-warns-fg\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/attacks-we-are-bigger-than-your-political-strategies-ipob-warns-fg\",\"name\":\"Attacks: We are bigger than your political strategies \u2013 IPOB warns FG - 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