IPOB dubs voting in Nigeria as useless, says it’ll soon actualise Biafra

Outlawed pro-Biafra group, the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), on Sunday decried the presidential and National Assembly election outcome and described election in Nigeria as useless.

The group also said that its effort to restore the sovereign state Biafra is unstoppable, adding that the goal would soon be actualised.

IPOB stated this in a statement its spokesman, Emma Powerful released in Awka, the Anambra State capital.

“The Indigenous People of Biafra and its leadership wish to reaffirm our position clearly to all and sundry in Nigeria and beyond that Biafra freedom and sovereignty is non-negotiable regardless of the political permutations in Nigeria,” Powerful said.

The leader of the group, Nnamdi Kanu, had initially asked Igbo people and its members not to take part in the yet to be concluded 2019 elections in Nigeria. He, however, later rescinded the decision and asked them to join other Nigerians to vote in the election.

But condemning the outcome of the first batch of the election, the presidential and National Assembly polls, Powerful said what was witnessed during the election vindicated its initial position.

“Voting in Nigeria is useless. We have been vindicated by the result of the shambolic, rigging fest they call elections.

“The unacceptable levels of humiliation, intimidation, killing, announcement of fake results, coupled with sponsored propaganda against our leader, Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, and the entire peaceful movement, cannot stop our total resolve to restore Biafra sovereignty in the shortest possible time.

“Only a moron and worker of iniquity will pretend not to know what transpired in the colonial contraption called Nigeria during the recently concluded presidential election. Using the military, police and armed thugs to rig in favour of the ruling APC was clear for all to see.

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“That the result has been sanctioned by some weak-minded apathetic Nigerians as well as the Fulani-loving British colonial masters, despite the horrors of those elections, is proof, if one is needed, that the poor masses of Nigeria are like tormented caged animals stripped of every dignity and lacking in courage,” the statement read.

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