Your meeting with Igbo leaders was 'complete waste of resources’

The Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) has described Acting President Yemi Osinbajo’s

In a statement by the group’s spokesman, Emma Powerful, IPOB described Osinbajo’s meeting as an exercise in futility.

IPOB noted that the Acting President ended up discussing with those who do not belong to any of the groups agitating for the welfare of Igbo people.

The group described the meeting with ‘such few compromised political jobbers' as insult to the sensibilities of Biafrans all over the world.

"With one or two exceptions and with the greatest respect to the attendees to this Nigeria sponsored gathering in Abuja, the so-called South East delegation is in no way representative of the views of the leadership of IPOB worldwide, neither can they claim with any degree of sincerity to be speaking for the masses,” the group said.

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"Therefore, all Professor Osinbajo has succeeded in achieving with this meeting is to waste scarce resources that could have been channeled towards more useful purposes.

“None of those that attended this meeting with Osinbajo gave the order for people to sit at home on May 30th. So we are at a loss to understand the justification for their invitation to the meeting to discuss something they know nothing about.

"Our leader Mazi Nnamdi Kanu has made it abundantly clear that any discussion or dialogue with Nigerian government that doesn't include an agreement on a referendum date to determine the issue of Biafra once and for all time, is an exercise in futility.

"In this regard, we wish to inform the government of Nigeria that the gathering and deliberations they thought they had yesterday is a complete waste of time and will continue to be until the Federal Government does the needful,” the statement added.