IPoB and Boko Haram: No basis for comparison, groups tell Tinubu

By Steve Oko

President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has travel nether disapproval for reportedly likening the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPoB) to Boko Haram during his caller sojourn to Owerri, Imo State.

Three U.S.-based pro-Igbo groups—Advocates for Victims of Injustice and Discrimination (AVID), Rising Sun, and Ambassadors for Self-Determination—faulted the comparison, stressing that determination is nary ground for equating a self-determination question with an insurgent radical liable for wide unit successful bluish Nigeria.

In a associated statement, the groups said the remarks were inappropriate, peculiarly arsenic the proceedings of IPOB leader, Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, is inactive earlier the courts. They expressed interest that specified comments could prejudice ongoing judicial proceedings and heighten taste tensions.

“Rather than equating IPOB with Boko Haram, President Tinubu should prioritize tackling convulsive groups liable for killings, abductions, and wide displacements crossed the country,” the groups said.

They urged the national authorities to clasp dialog and reconciliation successful addressing issues of self-determination, adding that Kanu’s continued detention lone fuels his popularity among his supporters.

The advocacy groups besides called connected the United States Congress, the U.S. Department of State, and the wider planetary assemblage to wage adjacent attraction to Nigeria’s handling of quality rights and antiauthoritarian governance.

They insisted that constructive engagement, not inflammatory rhetoric, remains the way to resolving long-standing grievances and gathering peace.

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