Biafra: IPOB members are not terrorists, I meet and live with them – Peter Obi

Labour Party, LP, presidential candidate in the 2023 general elections, Peter Obi has faulted the proscription of the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB.= by the Federal Government.

Obi, during an interview with Channels Television, said IPOB members around him do not constitute a threat to the country, adding that they are not a terrorist organization.

Recall the Nigerian government had proscribed IPOB following the agitation for the actualization of Biafra.

Despite the proscription, IPOB, and its leader, Nnamdi Kanu, had continued to push for the actualization of Biafra.

But, the separatist group had denied the terrorist tag by the Nigerian government.

However, Obi backed claims that members of the group are not terrorists.

According to Obi: “The only thing I disagree with is naming IPOB terrorist; they are not terrorists. Those who took the decision may have information that I don’t have.

“I stay in Onitsha, and I can tell you that they are people I pass them on the road every day.

“I meet and live with them; in fact, I usually see people gathering, and I have never had the sense of threat or molestation from them, even when they gather.”