The Indigenous People of Biafra has reiterated its position that it has nothing in common with the presidential candidate of the Labour Party, Peter Obi.
The Biafra agitation group said it does not know Obi and that Obi doest know it either.
IPOB was responding to a comment by Sheikh Ahmad Gumi’s that the group’s agitation had slowed down since Obi became Labour Party’s presidential candidate.
Gumi, in a Facebook post on Tuesday had said,“The IPOB rhetoric and loud voice of Biafra agitations have muffled out with the emergence of Peter Obi as the Labor Party presidential candidate.
“To them, Igbo have a platform. It’s clear now that the entire IPOB outcry was a political gimmick to get power.”
But in a statement on Wednesday through its spokesman, Emma Powerful, the separatist group said: “The attention of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) has been drawn to the statements from the Islamic cleric and fundamentalist Sheikh Gumi, alleging that IPOB’s agitation has slowed down in the South-Eastern Region since Peter Obi picked up the tickets from Labour Party for presidential race in Nigeria.
“This purported statement shows the level of cluelessness and how uninformed he is about IPOB movement and its activities.
“Sheikh Gumi must understand that IPOB is not on the same page with him and his cohorts in the North.
“We understand that some elements in Nigeria, especially Fulani, were thinking that Peter Obi, who is among those running the race to become Nigeria’s President, would affect us or change our decisions to pursue the freedom of our dear nation Biafra.
“We are not capitulating in this fight to liberate Biafra from the dungeon that the British caged us with Fulani in this contraption packaged as a country Nigeria.
“Let him be informed that IPOB has engaged in world class standard freedom fighting, which has successfully brought us thus far.
“We have covered the rockiest part in this struggle and no doubt that freedom of Biafra is certain.
“IPOB does not engage with any selection process they call ‘Nigeria election’ and we are not interested in their fraudulent ways of selecting the President of Nigeria.
“We have said it before now that IPOB does not know Peter Obi and Peter Obi does not know IPOB.”