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According to a report by Sunday Punch, the Indigenous People of
Biafra has ordered its members in 100 countries across the world to
attack the governors of Ebonyi, Enugu, Abia and Anambra states if they
are seen in any of the countries.
The group also put on notice Ndigbo leaders such as the
President-General of the Ohanaeze Ndigbo, Chief Nnia Nwodo, who it
accused of supporting the Operation Python Dance in the South-East.
Operation Python Dance was launched by the Nigerian Army in the
South-East in 2016 in the wake of protests by IPOB members who were
demanding secession from the country.
The group had cited historical events such as the victory of President
Donald Trump in the 2016 United States elections and Brexit as proof of
international support for self-determination.
During the Operation Python Dance, the army raided Umuahia, Abia State,
the home town of the leader of the secessionist group, Nnamdi Kanu,
whose whereabouts have been unknown since then.
Ultimately, the Federal Government designated IPOB as a terrorist
organisation on September 18, 2017, under the Terrorism (Prevention) Act
2013.
Speaking to one of our correspondents on Saturday, IPOB spokesperson, Mr
Emma Powerful, noted that South-East governors and some Ndigbo leaders
had been marked as enemies to be attacked if they were seen in any of
the 100 countries their members were residing.
He said the directive was given by Kanu and that in obedience to the
IPOB leader’s order, its members were the ones who attacked a former
Deputy Senate President, Dr Ike Ekweremadu, in Nuremberg, Germany on
Saturday.
Powerful said the lawmaker was “disgraced by the IPOB Nuremberg Family as an Operation Python Dance instigator.”
The IPOB spokesman described Ekweremadu as a “traitor,” accusing him of
being among those that got the pro-Biafra group proscribed, alongside
the South-East governors.
Powerful vowed that IPOB would take similar action against the
South-East governors and Ndigbo leaders, if they dared to attend any
public event abroad.
He said, “Today (Saturday), the Nuremberg IPOB family in Germany, in
keeping with the long-standing directive from our leader to hound all
instigators of the Operation Python Dance, is glad to report that Ike
Ekweremadu was confronted and duly hounded out of a so-called New Yam
Festival event in Germany.
“Despite repeated warnings to the organisers of this jamboree that
Enugu, Ebonyi and other parts of ‘Biafraland’ is under siege by the
Fulani caliphate and their collaborators within, they went ahead to
invite a known traitor, co-conspirator and one of those who worked with
Igbo governors to proscribe and tag IPOB a terror organisation while
they never raised any voice against the murderous Fulani herdsmen.
“This should serve as a warning to Nnia Nwodo, Dave Umahi, Okezie
Ikpeazu, Willie Obiano and others that any day we find them in a public
event abroad, they will be humiliated. IPOB is strategically located in
over 100 countries around the world. Anywhere we find them, they will be
dealt with.”
In apparent obedience to the IPOB’s directive to its members, there
was commotion on Saturday when Ekweremadu was attacked in Nuremberg,
Germany.
The lawmaker, who has served in the Senate since 2003, was seen being
pelted with stones, yam, sticks and water packs in short video clips
which had gone viral on the social media.