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Meeting with Igbo leaders futile without Kanu, IPOB tells Osinbajo
The Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) has ridiculed Acting President Yemi Osinbajo’s peace meeting with South-East leaders without its Leader Nnamdi Kanu.
The group described the meeting as a waste of resources, and an exercise in futility.
IPOB was responding to the meeting Osinbajo on Wednesday had with leaders of thought from the South-East at the Presidential Villa, Abuja, in respect to agitations for Biafra in the South-East and quit notice to Ndigbo living in the North by Arewa youths.
But IPOB, in a statement it released on Thursday by its spokesman, Emma Powerful, insisted that those who attended the meeting had little or nothing to do with the conflict the Federal Government plans to resolve.
“This meeting, we understood, was convened at the instigation of the Nigerian acting President, Prof. Yemi Osinbajo, following the political fallout from the hugely successful IPOB sit-at-home order of 30th of May, 2017.
“From time, we firmly resolved that nobody among the governors or politicians can set an agenda for IPOB except our leader, Mazi Nnamdi Kanu. Therefore, any meeting without the consent of our leader or those nominated by him in a representative capacity, is a complete waste and is unacceptable to IPOB.
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“With one or two exceptions and with the greatest respect to the attendees at this Nigeria-sponsored gathering in Abuja, the so-called South-East delegation is in no way representative of the views of the leadership of IPOB worldwide, neither can they claim with any degree of sincerity to be speaking for the masses.
“Therefore, all that Professor Osinbajo has succeeded in achieving with this meeting is to waste scarce resources that could have been channeled towards more useful purposes.
“None of those that attended this meeting with Osinbajo gave the order for people to sit at home on May 30th. So, we are at a loss to understand the justification for their invitation to the meeting to discuss something they knew nothing about,” Powerful said.
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