been thrown into confusion over who the
real founder and leader of the group is, The
News men reports.
This comes on the heels of allegations by
the former president-general of Ohaneze
Ndigbo, Dr. Dozie Ikedife that Nnamdi Kanu
is neither the founder nor leader of IPOB as
he claimed.
Ikedife, in an interview stated that Kanu is
only the director of Radio Biafra and adopted
the acronym IPOB to operate.
He added that they were the people that
founded IPOB as the Supreme Council of the
Indigenous People of Biafra and has been
used as the Bilie Human Rights Initiative.
But in a swift reaction to Ikedife claims,
Emma Powerful, the media and publicity
secretary of IPOB said the group under Kanu
condemned Bilie Human Rights Initiative.
Powerful said: “The statement on the pages of
newspapers that Kanu is not the leader of
IPOB is not true.
“Bilie, meaning Biafra Liberation in Exile, now
claiming to be a human rights organisation
was formed abroad as freedom fighters in
exile until IPOB leader, Nnamdi Kanu appointed
Dr. Dozie Ikedife and other members of the
elders forum of IPOB on advisory ground.
“When the elders forum and Ikedife started
campaigning for APC in 2014, Kanu dissolved
the forum and told them to stop using Biafra’s
name to campaign for any political party.
Ikedife is talking from both sides of his
mouth.”
Kanu is currently undergoing treasonable
charges in the Federal High Court, Abuja
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