Joe Igbokwe To Be Banished From Igboland Over Comment Against Biafra?

The Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, in Lagos has said it may be forced to banish Joe Igbokwe, the Publicity Secretary of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Lagos state from setting his foot in Igboland following his incessant anti-Biafra comments.

The group was reacting to the statement credited to Igbokwe where he urged Nnamdi Kanu, the leader of IPOB to quietly go home after securing his bail condition and stop what he call “the hopeless agitation for the realisation of Biafra”.

According to Igbokwe "Now that he has been granted bail, he should just quietly go home and rest. We are not a candidate of Biafra. They are just dissipating their energy for nothing. I just hope he will just go home quietly and stop disturbing the peace of the country.

“We are not for Biafra. We can’t build Nigeria for others. The so-called Biafra is too small for us. Nigeria provides a big stage for us. We own this country. We are a major ethnic group in this country. How can you go for a small pond when you have Atlantic Ocean?”

“So Nnamdi Kanu should go home quietly. He should stop his reckless and stupid agitation. The agitation has no political or economic sense. It is a hopeless agitation that we are not interested in. They are just using it to make money from gullible ones. It is a collection of illiterates” he said.

Reacting, a frontline member of IPOB, Kanayo Nwogwugwu in a chat with INDEPENDENT said the group and the entire Igbo race had had enough of Igbokwe’s “thoughtless and reckless statement aimed at pleasing his paymasters in the Southwest”.

While commending Igbos who have shown solidarity with Kanu since the news of his bail, he said Igbokwe lied when he said the entire Igbo race are not interested in the Biafra project.

“The likes of Igbokwe should bury his head in shame for describing the Biafra project as hopeless and IPOB supporters as collection of illiterates. He should watch the television and read the dailies to see how prominent Igbo leaders, including children are celebrating his bail”.

“ If he doesn’t rein in his caustic tongue, we may be forced to restrict him to his new found land and banish him from setting foot his foot again in Igboland” he said.