The Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) has distanced itself from the second Biafra declaration in Finland.
Speaking via a statement on Sunday by its spokesman, Emma Powerful, the proscribed group insisted that the declaration was shambolic and a charade, adding that only the declaration made by the late Odimegwu Ojukwu stands.
Powerful explained that IPOB’s mission is to restore the sovereignty of the declared Biafra Independence, which was forced to surrender through genocide by the Nigerian and British governments.
The statement read in part, “The Noble family and movement of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), led by the great and indomitable leader, Mazi Nnamdi Okwuchukwu Kanu, wishes to disassociate ourselves from the purported Biafra second declaration by an infamous no-name group. The so-called declaration is a scam. There is no room for another Biafra declaration besides the one our eternal leader, Dim Odimegwu Ojukwu, declared in 1967. 
“IPOB wishes to commend responsible media organizations and social media bloggers in Nigeria and the diaspora that didn’t give attention to the mockery of the Biafra struggle by infiltrators in Finland and elsewhere.
“However, it is imperative to inform the international community, Biafrans, friends of Biafra, and lovers of Biafra freedom that Biafra was declared by our eternal leader, late Dim Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu, in 1967.
“IPOB is calling for a UN-supervised referendum for Biafrans so that the declared sovereignty can be restored. Biafra cannot be declared for the second time by anyone. It is sad that some unscrupulous elements, who failed in their mission to infiltrate and destroy IPOB, went into the jamboree they claimed was Biafra’s second declaration outside the Biafra territory.
“Biafrans, and IPOB in particular, are happy that the fanfare the infiltrators had in Finland this weekend was ignored by all responsible media organizations. Those involved in the event in Finland were among the sponsors of insecurity in the Southeast Region.
“Their agenda is to destabilize the Southeast, divide the people, and divert the attention of Biafrans and those sympathetic to the Biafra struggle by making the genuine Biafra struggle unattractive to our people. They failed woefully.”
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