IPOB lambasts Clark over comment on Biafra Republic

The Indigenous People of Biafra has lambasted an elder statesman, Edwin Clark, over his comment on the composition of the proposed Biafra Republic.

Clark had in an interview dissociated the South South and Niger Delta from the proposed Biafra Republic.

Reacting to the comment by the former Federal Minister of Information, IPOB in a statement by its spokesman, Emma Powerful, said it was not disappointed as he had also betrayed former President Goodluck Jonathan.

In the statement on Sunday, Powerful said: “The attention of the global family of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) ably led by our great leader Mazi Nnamdi Kanu has come across a statement credited to Edwin Clerk during his BBC Pidgin English interview, where he said that Niger Delta is not part of Biafra. We are disappointed by such a statement coming from a supposed elder statesman like Edwin Clark.

“Though he betrayed Biafra during the war of 1967- 1970 against his brothers and sisters. Today where is Edwin Clerk in the scheme of things in Nigeria? Only the monthly salary Fulani slave masters placed on him for betraying his people then. Biafra will come, Edwin Clerk will fail in his betrayal salary getting from the enemy and on blood of his people but he must know that he cannot stop Biafra with his inconsequential utterances because he was paid to do so. We know his job and DNA is betrayal and sabotage even though he sabotaged his brother former President Goodluck Ebele Johnathan as president of Nigeria. He always takes sabotage and betrayal as norms. It is unbelievable and unfortunate he continues doing this until younger generations know that it is his hobby.

“The likes of Edwin Clark are the reason Biafra is being treated as slaves in their own domain today. A man at the age of Edwin Clark is supposed not to be economical with the truth or deceive the young generation because of parochial interest.

“It’s too appalling that Edwin Clerk doesn’t know that those who own Biafra are those he referred to as South South or Niger Delta as the Case may be. How suddenly Edwin Clark has forgotten that it was an Izon man who brought the name ‘Biafra’ to the table for approval which Ojukwu and his Eastern Consultative Assembly approved without hesitation or debate.”