Secessionist group, the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), on Wednesday, vowed that it will not go to war to achieve the sovereign state of Biafra.
This was contained in a letter to President Muhammadu Buhari by the groups legal counsel, Emekaa Emekesri. The letter also stated that the President’s utterances on the Biafra issue was prejudicial considering that the case was pending before a court.
Buhari had said during a visit to Katsina that: “for Nigeria to divide now, it is better for all of us to jump into the sea and get drowned.”
However, the IPOB’s counsel noted that it was wrong for the President to address Biafra agitators as “kids who were not born” during the Nigerian Civil War.
The letter also stated that “We respect Nigeria and the Nigerian Government.
“Our intention is to set Biafra free from Nigeria by the rule of law and not to destroy Nigeria, just as Eritrea was set free from Ethiopia without destroying Ethiopia; just as South Sudan was set free from Sudan without destroying Sudan; just as Bangladesh and Pakistan were set free from India without destroying India.”
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