{"id":86597,"date":"2023-04-20T11:49:53","date_gmt":"2023-04-20T10:49:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/uncategorized\/biafra-not-dead-will-be-restored-soon-ipob-replies-obasanjo"},"modified":"2023-04-20T13:35:40","modified_gmt":"2023-04-20T12:35:40","slug":"biafra-not-dead-will-be-restored-soon-ipob-replies-obasanjo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/biafra-not-dead-will-be-restored-soon-ipob-replies-obasanjo","title":{"rendered":"Biafra not dead, will be restored soon \u2013 IPOB replies Obasanjo"},"content":{"rendered":"

Africa-Press – Nigeria. <\/strong><\/span>The Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, has said Biafra would soon be restored because the agitation is not dead.<\/p>\n

IPOB was reacting to a remark credited to former President Olusegun Obasanjo that Biafra was dead and buried on 13th January 1970.<\/p>\n

The spokesman of the group, Emma Powerful, said no amount of blackmail or propaganda could stop the restoration of Biafra.<\/p>\n

Stressing that Obasanjo acknowledged there was \u201cIgbophobia\u201d in Nigeria, IPOB asked which ethnic group has been subjugated, maltreated, deprived, discriminated against, profiled, hated, militarized, and their youths murdered like the Igbos.<\/p>\n

A statement by Powerful reads: \u201cThe Indigenous People of Biafra under Nnamdi Kanu wish to remind the former president of Nigeria, Olusegun Obasanjo, that Biafra is not dead and was never buried but much alive and eventually the Sun shall rise to never set again.<\/p>\n

\u201cObasanjo, as a special guest at Professor Charles Chukwuma Soludo\u2019s one-year celebration in office at the event in Awka, Anambra State, erroneously said he believed that Biafra died and was buried on 13th January 1970 during his comment at that occasion.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe want Obasanjo to know that Biafra is not dead and definitely not buried. No amount of propaganda and blackmail against the IPOB movement will make us change our resolve to restore Biafra. We either restore Biafra or we die restoring Biafra.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Africa-Press – Nigeria. The Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, has said Biafra would soon be restored because the agitation is not dead. IPOB was reacting to a remark credited to former President Olusegun Obasanjo that Biafra was dead and buried on 13th January 1970. 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