Calls For IPOB Independence Return As North Discovers Crude Oil

The Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, claim that Biafra may now be a sovereign state due to the finding of crude oil in the North.

In a statement released on Friday, IPOB asserted this and added that Nnamdi Kanu‘s prayers for the Northern region to find petroleum in commercial quantities to allow the Biafra exodus have been answered.

According to a statement issued by the self-determination group and signed by its spokesperson, Emma Powerful.

Recall that the $3 billion Kolmani Integrated Development Project’s commercial production of crude oil and gas was officially launched on Tuesday by President Muhammadu Buhari.

Oil Prospecting Licences 809 and 810, which are part of the Gongola Basin of the Upper Benue Trough and connect the two northern states of Gombe and Bauchi, are where the Kolmani project is situated along the fields of Gombe and Bauchi.

During his speech to the nation at the occasion, Buhari said that the Kolmani River field had attracted investments totaling $3 billion.

In response, IPOB claimed that despite possessing solid minerals, the Northern region has been unwilling to allow Biafra to emerge because it profits from the sales of crude oil in the South-East.

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“Northern Nigeria has large deposits of many solid minerals. But because they thirst for oil, they are ready to do unimaginable things because of oil in Biafra land,” the statement partly read.

“Today, God Almighty has settled the contraption’s age-long problem of unity occasioned by crude oil. 

“Crude oil discovery in the North will for certain settle this forced unity if indeed they are truthful in settling Nigeria’s problem. Oil or no oil, Biafrans are not interested. All we need is a conducive environment to do our business without fear of terrorists at our borders.

“The discovery of over a billion barrels of crude oil in Gongola Basin is another important thing that has happened to the Northerners.”

“The prophecy of Nnamdi Kanu has come true,” it said, “since he prayed in one of his Radio Biafra broadcasts that God should grant the North access to oil so that Nigeria’s crisis will be resolved once and for all.

“Can we all go our separate ways and take care of our own enterprises now that oil is present in every component portion of Nigeria?”