Arrest Attackers Of INEC Offices Before Labelling Them Our Members – IPOB Tells Nigerian Police

The Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) has stated that the Nigeria Police Force without carrying out thorough investigation or arrests concluded that IPOB members were behind the attacks on the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) facilities.

IPOB in a release on Monday said it had no interest in the 2023 general elections.

Issued by IPOB’s Media and Publicity Secretary, Emma Powerful, the Biafran group noted that the security agencies should stop linking the group with the senseless attacks on INEC facilities.

It warned that IPOB would not spare anybody found engaging in the destruction of INEC facilities and pretending to be doing so on behalf of the pro-Biafra movement.

The group said, “ESN operatives never attacked INEC office because we are not interested in this Nigeria’s forthcoming election in 2023. Anyone or group blaming IPOB or ESN for any attack on INEC facilities is under the influence of some powerful drugs. IPOB will not spare anybody using our name to disrupt the election, and nobody should link us with those who are destroying election materials.”

In recent times, INEC offices in Ebonyi, Enugu, Anambra, Abia and Imo have been razed by gunmen.

On Friday, INEC office in Orlu Local Government Area of Imo was attacked. The police had blamed the attack on people suspected to be members of IPOB.

But IPOB said, “Nigeria Government and her security agencies are working day and night to blackmail the IPOB self-determination movement. Criminals attack government facilities and they rush to the media to blame the attacks on IPOB and ESN without investigation.

There has never been any time that Nigeria Police carried out any public inquiry on all the numerous attacks and arsons that they blamed IPOB for.”