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Unic Press UK: The Nigerian government claims that the opposition to the current APC-led government is using the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) to destabilize the country.
At a news conference in Lagos yesterday, Sunday, the Minister of Information and Culture, Lai Mohammed, said that a ‘coalition of the politically-disgruntled and treasury looters’ were behind efforts by IPOB to destabilize Nigeria. The opposition seeks to cause chaos through discrediting the laudable achievements of the Buhari administration and promoting IPOB, Lai accentuated.
Lai view on IPOB is contrary to the outcome of a recent poll – one by Guardian Newspaper based in Nigeria and another by UK Press UK based in the United Kingdom.
The outcome of Guardian Newspaper’s poll:
- 52% said No, did not support the Federal Government of Nigeria
- 38% in support
- 10% indifferent
Is the FG right to have introduced Operation Python Dance in the Southeast?
— The Guardian Nigeria (@GuardianNigeria) September 13, 2017
Unic Press UK secret poll, which was held from 13th September to 14th September:
- 67% said that No. Not in support Army’s operation Python Dance II
- 22% in support
- 11% indifferent
About IPOB
The Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) are seeking a referendum on Biafra independence from the Federal Republic of Nigeria.
IPOB claims to be the original inhabitants and the owners of the lands and communities of Biafra and Biafraland presently located in the South East region, some parts of South South region and some parts of the Middle Belt of Nigeria.
The group is led by Nnamdi Kanu, who holds dual citizenship being a Nigerian cum British national. Kanu is the director of Radio Biafra. He is facing a series of court cases in Nigeria, but currently on bail. His whereabouts have been unknown since the Nigerian military invaded his home on 14th September 2017.
