The Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) has declared that it respect Nigeria and will the actualize a sovereign state of Biafra without recourse to war.
The group has declared that its agitation for the sovereign state of Biafra was without intention to destroy Nigeria, The Sun reports.
In a letter to President Buhari by IPOB’s counsel, Mr Emeka Emekesri, the group said the president’s utterances on the Biafra issue was prejudicial as the matter was in court. Emekesri flayed Buhari for dismissing the Biafra agitators as “kids who were not born” during the Nigerian Civil War.
He said: “We respect Nigeria and the Nigerian Government.
“Our intention is to set Biafra free from Nigeria by the rule of law and not to destroy Nigeria, just as Eritrea was set free from Ethiopia without destroying Ethiopia; just as South Sudan was set free from Sudan without destroying Sudan; just as Bangladesh and Pakistan were set free from India without destroying India.”
