The Indigenous People of Biafra on
Sunday ordered what it called a West African rally of its members for the President- elect of the United State of America , Mr Donald Trump .
A press statement by IPOB ’s Media
and Publicity Secretary , Emma
Powerful , said the rally would take
place on 20 th January , the day Trump would be inaugurated as President. The march which would take place at Igweocha in Port Harcourt Rivers state , the group said would be a convocation of its members “ in Biafra , Nigeria and other parts of West African countries” .
The exercise tagged ‘ IPOB - Trump
Solidarity Rally ’, IPOB said would be
used to pray for peaceful handover
to Trump , as well as further press for the release of its leader , Nnamdi
Kanu and others in prisons .
The statement read in part ” IPOB
worldwide and its leadership are
calling on all IPOB family members
and Biafrans from all over West
Africa , Nigeria and Biafraland to be
at Igweocha for the long awaited
peaceful IPOB - TRUMP SOLIDARITY RALLY on Friday 20 th January 2017 .
“ We are going to ask the Sovereign
Lord God Almighty for Trump ’ s
successful take over on that day and
for the release of our leader Mazi
Nnamdi Kanu and others detained
illegally in the orders of Major
General Muhammadu Buhari in all
the DSS secret cells and prisons across Nigeria .
“ This IPOB peaceful rally on 20 th
January 2017 will be for Biafrans,
friends of Biafra and lovers of
freedom all over the world to
understand how resolute and
committed we are towards the
emancipation , realisation and
proclamation of our God given right
to live as free men and women in our ancestral land of Biafra .
“ We Biafrans abhor slavery and
subjugation of human beings in
whatever form or guise. ”
