The Indigenous People of Biafra has linked the ban of its activities in Ebonyi State to the purported agreement by the APC National Leader, Bola Tinubu to choose the State Governor, Dave Umahi as his running mate for the 2023 Presidential ambition.
The state government had banned all activities involving the separatist group in the state, insisting IPOB was a proscribed organisation.
However, IPOB in a statement linked the governor’s action to his ‘political ambition’.
“Dave Umahi’s desperate attempt to turn our beloved Ebonyi State into another vassal state is dead on arrival.
“IPOB is on the ground and will never allow it. If his ‘Alice in Wonderland’ dream of becoming Bola Tinubu’s running mate in the 2023 presidential election is his motivation for coming out against IPOB at this critical moment in our history, then he is not only misguided but deluded.
“Sometime in mid-2017 he issued a Fatwa against our leader and boasted that IPOB’s rallies would never hold in Ebonyi State.”
The group added, “How many Fulani governors have come out against herdsmen or Boko Haram? Yet Igbo governors keep on making a complete fool of themselves by attacking IPOB.”
While the governor had not disclosed his plan ahead of 2019,political analysts have opined that it may be politically incorrect for the APC to pick his candidate and running mate from the Southern region.
