Chika Edoziem, the head of the Indigenous People of Biafra’s (IPOB) Directorate of State, has been appointed as the group’s new interim leader.
Edoziem “will be acting awaiting when substantive leader, Nnamdi Kanu, who is currently in jail in the Department of State Services facility in Abuja, regains his release,” according to the announcement made in a statement on Monday by IPOB’s Media and Publicity Secretary, Emma Powerful.
“For the avoidance of doubt, the Directorate of State of the Indigenous People of Biafra (DOS) headed by Mazi Chika Edoziem is at the helm of affairs of the Biafra movement. Whenever our leader, Mazi Nnamdi Kanu comes out, he hands over the IPOB structure back to him,” the statement said.
“The DOS gives letters to our people for asylum and every government in the world accepts them and grants asylum to such asylum seekers, and they communicate with IPOB.
“Already, all diplomatic missions and countries of the world know about the Biafra agitation and they communicate with IPOB as the responsible authority that oversees the affairs of the Biafran people, be it nationally or internationally.”
The secessionist group claimed that it had legitimate and well-established institutions and a well-structured administrative hierarchy that oversaw the day-to-day running of its affairs even in the absence of Kanu.
