On Monday, the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) rejected Peter Obi, the presidential candidate of the Labour Party.
The group stated that it had no interest in an Igbo president or a Nigerian president of South-East origin in a statement released by Emma Powerful, its director of media and publicity.
IPOB was responding to an accusation made by Salem Alhassan, the National Secretary of the Miyetti Allah Cattle Breeders Association (MACBAN), that Nnamdi Kanu and other IPOB promoters had shifted allegiance to Obi.
No Fulani man, he said, will support the LP candidate in 2023.
However, IPOB stated that Obi engages in dirty politics in Nigeria and that it will never support his political views.
The statement read: “Peter Obi is involved in and playing dirty Nigerian politics while we in IPOB play advanced internationally accepted politics targeting the Biafra Referendum.
“If Peter Obi believes in what we are pursuing he wouldn’t have come out in the first place to contest for Nigeria’s President. Nobody should drag or link IPOB with Peter Obi’s politics.
“IPOB has said several times that we don’t know Peter Obi, we have nothing in common with Peter Obi and we do not agree with his political opinions. IPOB is a freedom-fighting movement and has nothing whatsoever to do with or in Nigerian politics.
“IPOB is not interested in Igbo president or a Nigeria President from Biafra extraction. Our mission is simple.”
