IPOB DIVIDES AS SPLINTER GROUP MAKE U-TURN, SAYS THEY WILL BURN BIAFRA FLAG

A splinter group of the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, “The Re-branded Indigenous People of Biafra, TRIOPOB,” has said the struggle for the actualisation of Biafra is not feasible.Spokesman of the splinter group, Chima Phillip Effiong Osuji, made the remark after a meeting convened by some aggrieved members of IPOB in Aba, Abia state.Disclosing that the new group will denounce the struggle, Osuji said TRIOPOB will set ablaze the Biafra flag, recite Nigeria’s national anthem and pledge in Abuja.Osuji, however stressed that the spirit and intent of Biafra will be pursued inside the Nigerian nation. According to Osuji, “TRIPOB now sees the Biafra question from a different perspective. Biafra will now become to us a powerful metaphor for change, development and greatness of the Igbos inside a united Nigeria, where the South East axis will be a utopia from the sheer determination borne out of the Biafra metaphor.“We believe in being a part of a united Nigeria, and a new way of thinking, where the victim mentality will no longer be acceptable.“We have accepted the fact that the Biafra Republic is not a reality but an anachronism, and doubt that the South -South region will become a part of a Biafra Republic, except by force; after a declaration of another civil war.