The Indigenous People of Biafra,
IPOB, has defended its leader, Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, in the row he has with
ex-leader of Niger-Delta militants, Asari Dokubo, over the boycott of 2019
elections.
IPOB deputy leader, Uche Mefor,
in a statement yesterday said the pro-Biafra group was not interested in
Dokubo’s ‘lectures’ on how to achieve its objectives.
Recall that Nnamdi Kanu had urged
IPOB supporters and sympathizers in the two geopolitical zones of south east
and south south to shun the 2019 general elections unless the Federal
Government announced a date for Biafra referendum.
But Asari Dokubo expressed
disagreement over the call for the boycott of the 2019 general elections by
Nnamdi Kanu, arguing that heeding Kanu’s advice was suicidal since it would be
tantamount to empowering those opposed to the Biafra aspirations with resources
from the national treasury to frustrate the people’s struggle.
He went further to point out that
pro-independent agitators in Spain, Ireland and Palestine contested elections
and won seats into political offices in a bid to push their agenda rather than
boycott general elections in their respective nations.
Picking holes in Dokubo’s
argument, Uche Mefor, said: “Whether Catalonia, Scotland, Northern Ireland,
Hamas, used election to control their territories or not, that is their
business. Their examples are incongruent and serves no purpose in our
circumstance as it stands. On our part, IPOB has taken a decision to use civil
disobedience manifesting in so many ways including election boycott and that we
must do.
“We do not believe in the
recalibration nor extinguishing of our averred principles on the altar of
political expediency and certainly, don’t need any lectures on what or how to
go about the path we have chosen.
“Hamas started by fighting wars,
IRA started by fighting wars and same with Catalonia and even Scotland and
these violences gave rise to their attaining political statuses they have
today. Why then are those who claim to be Biafra freedom fighters not fighting
like Hamas, IRA, etc if citing them is a standard?”
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