Ijaw Youth Council Warns Simon Ekpa: We Are Not Part of Biafra, Leave Us Out

• IYC insists Ijaw people are not part of Biafra and will never be

• Group reacts to Simon Ekpa’s claim that Ijaw territories belong to Biafra

• IYC says Ijaw struggle is for resource control, separate from IPOB’s secessionist movement

Eko Hot Blog reports that the umbrella body of Ijaw youths, the Ijaw Youth Council (IYC) Worldwide, has warned Simon Ekpa and his group of Biafra agitators not to include them in their Biafra struggle.

The group insisted that the Ijaw people are not part of Biafra and will never be.

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IYC stated this while responding to a video on X platform where Ekpa claimed that the Ijaws are part of the Biafran state.

Speaking via a statement on Friday by the national spokesman for IYC, Amb. Binebai Yerin Princewill, the group said the Ijaw people would not tolerate any other reckless comment about their people and territories belonging to the Biafra.

“The attention of Ijaw Youth Council (IYC) Worldwide has been drawn to a strange video by one Simon Ekpa, who is from the eastern part of Nigeria, now masquerading as the leader of Biafra in exile,” Princewill said. “In the said video posted on X, he tried to establish Ijaw territories as part of his imaginary Biafra state.”

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Princewill further noted that Ijaw people had never at any point in time been part of Biafra and can never be part of Biafra. “The struggle of the Ijaw people is majorly in resource control and not a secessionist movement.

We have our own struggles, and the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) also has their own separate struggle. The Ijaws are not part of their Biafran struggle and ideology,” he added.

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