IPOB To Buhari: Your Planned Visit To Ebonyi Will Be Resisted

The indigenous people of Biafra, IPOB, on Thursday said
that the plans by President Muhammadu Buhari to
secretly visit Ebonyi State will be resisted by youths of the
South East geopolitical zone, unless the national leader,
Nnamdi Kanu is released unconditionally from the DSS
detention.
IPOB expressed regrets that their leader, Kanu who
according to them, did not commit any crime to warrant
being detained at the DSS, vowing that President Buhari
will meet empty streets during his visit to Ebonyi State.
The group made this known in a statement signed by
Emma Powerful and made available to journalists in
Abakaliki, the capital of Ebonyi State, adding that youths of
the South East zone will resist any of such visit.
The statement reads in part: “The attention of the
Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, has been drawn to the
planned secret visit of President Muhammadu Buhari to
Ebonyi State. The secret visit according to IPOB
intelligence is being facilitated by some APC politicians in
the state.
“IPOB will not accept any visit both secret and open, by
Buhari to Biafraland while our leader, Mazi Nnamdi KANU
is still in DSS custody. Our leader has to be released
unconditionally before Buhari should contemplate any visit
to Biafra land.
“Biafrans will lock down everywhere any day he ventures
to visit Biafraland until he releases our leader. He will meet
empty streets in Ebonyi or any part of Biafra he chooses to
visit without releasing Nnamdi Kanu.
“Biafrans must be prepared to lock down our territory any
day he comes here in our region. Buhari has shown that
he doesn’t like us. Our leader Mazi Nnamdi KANU cannot
be in detention and we are welcoming Buhari in our
region.
“Biafrans will sit at home any day he decides to come
and mock us. He will know that the few politicians telling
him lies about us don’t have control over the people.
Should he decide to proceed with the planned visit, Ebonyi
will be on lockdown,” the group stated.