IPOB alleged that the members of the cabal are working with politicians in the region to ensure the area does not know peace before the 2023 elections.
The Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) has accused the former Chief of Army Staff, Major General Abdulrahman Dambazau (rtd), of planning to rig the 2023 general elections but blackmailing it (IPOB) to cover up.
IPOB in a statement issued by its Media and Publicity Secretary, Emma Powerful, Monday said Dambazau's recent comment that the secessionist group is a threat to 2023 elections in the South-East region is a clear indication that the Fulani cabal is behind the insecurity in the region in an effort to rig the 2023 elections and blame it on the group.
The secessionist group said, "These cabals are sponsoring Fulani terrorists’ influx into Igboland that are killing and sacking communities so that there will be no voting due to desertion of communities in Igbo land. These cabals are also behind infiltrators who are shouting ‘No Election’ in Biafra land.
"It's a premeditated plan to blame IPOB for voter apathy in Igbo land. They are also responsible for staging and parading criminals who claim to be working for IPOB. It is all part of the planned agenda to rig elections while blaming IPOB."
IPOB alleged that the members of the cabal are working with politicians in the region to ensure the area does not know peace before the 2023 elections.
"With their well-planned media attacks and blackmail against IPOB, it is obvious that they see IPOB as the only obstacle to their evil agenda for all the indigenous nations trapped in the contraption called Nigeria.
"Even though we have consistently said that IPOB is not interested in Nigerian politics, the Fulani handlers of international terrorism and their leaders daily link IPOB into their plot to select Nigeria's leaders and in the shambolic 2023 selection that they call election. They are just preparing ignorant people's minds to blame IPOB for their failure in an already rigged election,” it said.
"Unfortunately, this is Nigeria, where many of the state executives are terrorist commanders. Even arrested terrorists are released and given VIP treatment while unarmed freedom fighters are killed or detained indefinitely in dungeons that Nigeria calls detention facilities.
"We have maintained that IPOB has no plans to tell our people to boycott elections. We have chosen to remain neutral in the forthcoming 2023 fraudulent election. Anyone obstructing the election process is definitely working with the Fulani agendist and not IPOB.
"Our focus now is to dislodge the Fulani imported terrorists and locally recruited criminals who are demonizing IPOB before the International Community. Just watch as events unfold."
IPOB said it has nothing to do with what it described as Nigeria's fraudulent election, saying that its focus is on the release of its leader, Nnamdi Kanu and getting a Biafra referendum date.
"Biafra agitation championed by Mazi Nnamdi Kanu and IPOB worldwide is recognized and considered peaceful, contrary to the blackmail by the Fulani government in Nigeria. We shall remain peaceful but resolute freedom fighters until Biafra freedom is achieved."