IPOB Dares Presidency To Name Biafra Agitators On Govt Payroll

• “So, this thing about secession is they had used it in the past. You cry secession and breakup Nigeria and then you intimidate the sitting leader and then he opens the vault and he brings money to settle people” – Garba Shehu

The proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) has challenged the presidency to publish the names of those it claimed to be paying in the Southeast to drop the agitation for republic of Biafra.

It said failure to disclose the identities of the beneficiaries and evidence of such payments would be considered as one of the shameless lies that had become the trademark of the Federal Government.

The Senior Special Assistant to the President on Media and Publicity, Garba Shehu, was quoted to have alleged that calls for secession had been used in the past to demand money from sitting presidents, but insisted that President Muhammadu Buhari would not succumb to such tactics.

Read also: Buhari Won’t Be Bullied By Calls For Secession – Presidency

But IPOB, through its Media and Publicity Secretary, Emma Powerful, accused the Buhari administration of attempting to buy over its leader, Nnamdi Kanu.

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The group claimed that the Federal Government had tried to make Kanu abandon the Biafra agitation through “irresistible offers”, which he turned down.

The group asked the Presidency to first crush the bandits and terrorists overrunning the North before embarking on any military operation in the Southeast.