“This statement conveys the official position of IPOB under the leadership of Onyendu Mazi Nnamdi Kanu. We reject every attempt to weaponise ethnic identity, religious differences, or regional divisions against ordinary people whose common aspirations include dignity, freedom, justice, and the right to determine their own political future,” the assertion stated.
According to IPOB, for years, “the enemies of freedom and agents of the oppressive Nigerian state” have sought to mischaracterize the “noble struggle” led by Nnamdi Kanu. “They have fraudulently portrayed our leader as hostile to Northern ethnic nationalities to divide oppressed peoples and protect a corrupt, expired system. But truth is light, and no amount of state-sponsored propaganda can extinguish it,” it added.
IPOB famous that all through Kanu’s years of Radio Biafra broadcasts, he persistently spoke of his want to see the re-emergence of an emancipated, politically aware, and confident Hausa nation – “one that can reclaim its historical dignity and draw inspiration from the great Habe monarchies of old”.
“His message has never needed to be reduced to hostility between ethnic nationalities. Rather, it recognises the historical stature of the Hausa people and their capacity to recover their political agency, cultural confidence, and rightful place among the peoples of Africa. The freedom of Biafrans and the emancipation of the Hausa nation are not mutually exclusive aspirations. No people should have to remain subordinate for another people to be free,” IPOB added.
Welcoming the solidarity, the pro-Biafra group declared, “Today, our Hausa brothers within the North-West have demonstrated political consciousness and impartial judgment relating to the realities of the unworkable colonial contraption referred to as Nigeria. They have clearly recognized the true enemy: not the Igbo individuals, however the corrupt, oppressive political construction that has impoverished and subjugated each bizarre citizen no matter regional or ethnic identification.
“As Mazi Nnamdi Kanu has persistently maintained throughout his broadcasts through the years, the demand for a referendum and self-determination isn’t an act of hatred in opposition to any group. It is an act of common liberation. Freedom is probably the most treasured present Almighty God gave to humanity, and no human being or synthetic colonial association ought to deny any those who proper.
“We state unequivocally: The Hausa persons are our brothers: IPOB embraces the Hausa nation and all oppressed teams within the North with love, mutual respect, and solidarity. We acknowledge that the typical Hausa youth seeks peace, dignity, equal rights, and an finish to systemic injustice, simply as we do.
“Size is immaterial, each ethnic nationality issues: The proper to self-determination belongs to all indigenous ethnic nationalities trapped inside this monolithic construction, no matter inhabitants measurement. Whether giant or small — be it the Hausa, Kanuri, Tiv, Berom, Nupe, Igala, Jukun, Angas, Bachama, Idoma, Birom, Zuru, Ebira, Gbagyi, Tangale, or Borgu – no group ought to ever be handled as a minority or made a slave on their ancestral land. Population density doesn’t dictate human dignity. Ethno-linguistic indigeneity and the freely expressed will of the individuals have to be the only yardstick for governance in Africa. Every single ethnic nationality issues and deserves to have its voice heard on how they want to reside and govern themselves.
“Referendum is the democratic path ahead: Mazi Nnamdi Kanu’s stance stays agency and uncompromising: a peaceable, internationally supervised referendum is the first democratic mechanism for permitting peoples to freely select their political futures or decide how any new political association ought to come into existence.
“Within this framework, smaller ethnic nationalities retain full company to barter voluntary alliances, federate, or construction regional governance methods that shield their pursuits—drawing upon the progressive rules of restructuring and regional autonomy championed throughout President Goodluck Jonathan’s 2014 National Conference (CONFAB).
“As former President Olusegun Obasanjo rightly advocated a short time again, the imported, unworkable European fashions of governance have totally failed our continent. The British colonial masters carved up our lands for their very own imperial pursuits, forsaking a dysfunctional framework. It is now as much as Africans to interrupt free from these chains and construction societies which might be distinctive to our circumstance.
“Now that the youth of the North-West have boldly woken up to the truth and stood for justice, we hope and pray that all other ethnic nationalities across the country will also shake off the scales of deception. IPOB remains steadfast alongside all oppressed peoples in the pursuit of genuine liberation, peace, and mutual respect for all indigenous ethnic nationalities.”
