The Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) has cautioned individuals and groups to stop ascribing Finland-based auto-pilot government “content creator” Simon Ekpa and others in his camp as its IPOB members.
IPOB in a statement issued on Sunday by its Media and Publicity Secretary, Emma Powerful, noted that it dissociated itself from Ekpa and the Biafran government in exile including its current prime minister in detention.
Powerful said, “We warn those media houses attaching the content creator to please stop doing such. They are not IPOB members and can never be.
“IPOB and its leader Mazi Nnamdi Okwuchukwu Kanu are different people, not members of the government in exile.
“Any self-serving on these individuals to keep tagging a content creator to the noble IPOB family will soon be defeated.
“If the purpose of these traducers in some sections of the print and electronic media is to pander to a warped sentiment that seeks to demean and demonise IPOB for the benefit of killer herdsmen and their sponsors, then they have failed.
“Simon Ekpa is a self confessed content creator and the head of a group of social media content creators known as Autopilots which were never part of the IPOB structure.
“So why the persistence in attaching somebody who declared publicly that he is not a member of IPOB to the peaceful movement?”
The IPOB spokesperson added, “IPOB’s pursuit of self determination through the instrumentality of a UN supervised referendum is our only stated mission.”
He said, “Any entity or media house attaching or forcibly ascribing IPOB membership to nonentities or whomsoever they like are only being mischievous and not interested in true journalism.
“We suggest that these individuals associating content creators to IPOB to please conduct minor research into the speech and publicly stated utterances of these clueless and uninformed individuals masquerading as Autopilots to ascertain once and for all that they are not part of IPOB.”
