The Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, has said Biafra can exist now as a sovereign state following the discovery of crude oil in the North.

IPOB said this in a statement on Friday, November 25, 2022, adding that the discovery was an answer to the prayers of its leader, Nnamdi Kanu who had prayed that the Northern region should discover petroleum in commercial quantity to facilitate the Biafra exit.

The self-determination group made this known according to the statement signed by its spokesperson, Emma Powerful.

Recall that President Muhammadu Buhari, on Tuesday, flagged off the commercial production of crude oil and gas from the $3 billion Kolmani Integrated Development Project.

The Kolmani project is located along the fields of Gombe and Bauchi, with Oil Prospecting Licence 809 and 810, lying in the Gongola Basin of the Upper Benue Trough, joining the two northern states.

While addressing the country at the event, Buhari said the Kolmani River field attracted $3 billion worth of investments.

Reacting, IPOB said the Northern region has been reluctant to let Biafra happen because it benefits from the proceeds of the crude oil in the South-East, despite having solid minerals.

The statement partly read, “Northern Nigeria has large deposits of many solid minerals. But because they thirst for oil, they are ready to do unimaginable things because of oil in Biafra land.

“Today, God Almighty has settled the contraption’s age-long problem of unity occasioned by crude oil.

“Crude oil discovery in the North will for certain settle this forced unity if indeed they are truthful in settling Nigeria’s problem. Oil or no oil, Biafrans are not interested. All we need is a conducive environment to do our business without fear of terrorists at our borders.

“The discovery of over a billion barrels of crude oil in Gongola Basin is another important thing that has happened to the Northerners.”

It continued, “The prophecy of Nnamdi Kanu has come true because he prayed in one of his Radio Biafra broadcasts that God should give to the North oil so that Nigeria’s problem will be solved once and for all.

“Now that every component part of Nigeria has oil, can we all go our separate ways and mind our own businesses?”

IPOB Sends Security Advisory To South East Traditional Rulers

The Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, has warned traditional rulers in the South East to beef up their personal securities to avoid being victims of murder.

Emma Powerful, the spokesperson of the group,  who was reacting to the killing of the traditional ruler of Obudi-Agwa, Eze Ignatius Asor by gunmen in his place, Owerri, Imo State recently in a statement has also denied involvement in the crime.

Powerful said, “IPOB has no hand in this barbarism and we cannot be involved in killing innocent citizens of Biafran that we are dying and going to prison to save.

“We commiserate with the families of the Monarch and those murdered in cold-blood at Obudi Agwa in Oguta LGA, Imo State.

“We are urging all traditional rulers, religious leaders in Biafra Land to understand that there is danger and all should beef up their personal securities.

“There is danger ahead because our enemies are relentlessly extorting and waging war against our leaders,” Powerful stated.

Source: Vanguard