The Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) is not fascinated by Thursday’s withdrawal of the quit notice issued to Igbo in the north by a coalition of Arewa youth organisations. The Secretary, Media and Publicity of IPOB, Comrade Emma Powerful, branded the withdrawal of the quit notice inconsequential.
He dared the Arewa youth organizations to ‘stick to the quit notice’, if they have any ‘honour’.
”It is inconsequential to IPOB whether the ‘quit notice’ was rescinded or not because it will in no way impact the pace and direction of our effort to restore Biafra,” Powerful said.
“Threats don’t have any effect on us, so our advice to the Arewa North is to please stick to the October 1 deadline or else they have no honour.
“We urge all southerners in the core North to return home before October 1 as history will most definitely repeat itself.”
He said President Muhammadu Buhari should arrest those behind the quit notice and their sponsors if he is serious about clamping down on hate speech.
He said: “If the idea is to cow our leader with calls for his arrest, then those behind the genocidal edict of ‘Igbos must leave the North’ are even dumber than we thought. Nigeria is crumbling today before our eyes due to the arrest of Mazi Nnamdi Kanu; those wishing for him to be arrested again are basically signing the death warrant of Nigeria.”