“I Created A Platform For IPOB To Defend Itself” – Raymond Dokpesi

Media entrepreneur, Raymond Dokpesi says he had provided an opportunity for the Biafra agitation movement, the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) to defend itself, contending that the outlawed’s group’s struggle was due to prevailing injustice against Ndigbo.

ABN TV reports that Dokpesi who said this on Monday in Umuahia, Abia State, while addressing the leaders of the People Democratic Party (PDP) in the state, said President Muhammadu Buhari has “neglected” the Southeast region.

“Often, I have created a platform for IPOB to defend itself (seemingly referring to his media platforms). I belong to the school of thought that believes that IPOB is not doing anything wrong. Their actions were borne out of injustice, out of neglect, and out of the incapacity of the present President; his absolute failure started in 1985.

“He (Buhari) has neglected the South East and those wrongs have to be corrected at the right time,” Dokpesi said.

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IPOB is a separatist organization in Nigeria. Its main aim is to restore an independent state of Biafra in the Old Eastern Region of Nigeria, comprising mainly today’s South-East region of Nigeria through an independence referendum. The group was founded in 2012 by Nnamdi Kanu, a British-Nigerian political activist known for his prominent advocacy of the contemporary Biafran independence movement. It was deemed a terrorist organization in 2017 under Nigerian Terrorism Act.