President Muhammadu Buhari has described the Indigenous
People Of Biafra (IPOB) as “a dot in a circle,” saying the group is isolated in
its call for secession.
The president said this in an interview with Arise TV
broadcast on Thursday.
Buhari said he has been assured by “the elderly people” and
“the youths” from the south-south part of the country that region has no
intention of seceding.
He said IPOB will not have “access to anywhere” even if they eventually secede from the country.
The president then reiterated his statement that IPOB
members will treated in the “language that they understand”.
“I was encouraged by what I heard, nobody told me. Two
statements from the south south: one by the elderly people, they said this time
around there would be no (secession). And again the youth made the same
statement; such encouragement,” Buhari said.
“So that IPOB is just like a dot in a circle. Even if they
want to exit, they’ll have no access to anywhere. And the way they are spread
all over the country, having businesses and properties. I don’t think IPOB
knows what they are talking about.”
“In any case, we say
we’ll talk to them in the language that they understand. We’ll organise the
police and the military to pursue them.”
IPOB has been agitating for the secession of the south-east.
They recently took up arms against the country, attacking security formations
and public property.
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