The indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) has appealed to other separatist groups in the country to join its call to lockdown the country on October 1, Nigeria’s Independence Day.
The group had called on the entire South East states to ensure that no one observes the day’s regular activities. It sent its message in a statement captioned, “No Nigerian flag in Biafraland.
IPOB also ordered a sit-at-home day for all its members in the region to celebrate ‘Ambazonia Independence Anniversary’ which falls on the same day as Nigeria’s Independence Day.
The group threatened to lockdown the entire South East Region.
In a statement signed on Tuesday by Emma Powerful, the spokesman for the group, IPOB urged the Oduduwa Republic and the Middle Belt to put aside their differences and join the group in shutting down the entire country on October 1.
According to Powerful, “We, the global family of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) request our brothers and sisters in Oduduwa Republic and Middle Belt who suffer similar fate with us to join hands in sympathy protest.
“All lovers of freedom including Christian communities in the north and other parts of Nigeria, who receive humiliation, intimidation and killings from terrorists, bandits and murderous herdsmen should understand that time has come for all victims of impunity and atrocities to unite together for resistance.
“We need to put our differences behind us and rise as one people to defend our ancestral land and heritage against our common enemy.”
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