The Indigenous People of Biafra said it was not involved in last Sunday’s attack on Labour Party (LP) supporters in Enugu State.
Gunmen four in number had invaded the venue of a meeting where the Labour Party faithful were gathering at Aninri and Awgu local government areas of State.
However, according to IPOB spokesman Emma Powerful the attacks were staged by the Nigerian Army and the Department of State Service (DSS).
He said in a statement: “We condemn those who used the IPOB and Biafra insignias in what we knew as a State-sponsored attack on the Labour Party campaign ground in Enugu State to blackmail IPOB.
“IPOB under the command and leadership of Mazi Nnamdi Kanu never instructed anyone to threaten or attack election campaign ground. If IPOB wishes to do so we will make it open and Nigeria Government and its Security Agencies will hear the sound.
“Anybody or criminal groups hired for such impersonation and demonization will soon incur the wrath of IPOB volunteers and ESN operatives.
“Our intelligence unit the M.Branch intercepted the secret arrangements where some few Fulani soldiers and terrorists in Nigeria Security Agencies especially DSS and Military planned to hire some criminals to attack campaign grounds to incriminate IPOB and ESN in the East with Biafra flags and insignias and tag it on ESN members we did not attack campaign ground.
“In doing so, they forgot that IPOB and ESN will not in any way desecrate the hallowed Biafra flag in the name of political attacks. Nigeria Security Agencies keep desecrating Biafra flags any time they are carrying out their cheap and dirty blackmail against IPOB.
“IPOB is very sure that it was the Nigeria Government and her compromised Security Agencies particularly DSS and Army Personnels that sponsored some of their men with some criminal gangs they created to attack Labour Party campaign ground and made it look like IPOB volunteers and ESN operatives attack them, we are not involved.
“We are telling the public that IPOB has no hands on these criminal activities because IPOB doesn’t care what happens with demonized Nigeria politics. The Nigerian Army, and DSS agents must leave IPOB alone and focus on the jamboree jobs they are doing without protecting their citizens in Nigeria.”
