The Senior Special Assistant to President Muhammadu Buhari on Media and Publicity, Garba Shehu, has revealed how the present Federal Government is working to collapse the Proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB).
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Shehu revealed this while responding to a publication made on President Buhari's failure, by a London based magazine,
The Economist.
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The presidential spokesperson who described the IPOB as a violent terrorist group, said the arrest and present trial of Nnamdi Kanu, leader of the IPOB, is the beginning of its demise.
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He added that "The President's administration is redoubling efforts to have IPOB rightfully designated as a terrorist group by our allies outside of Nigeria - an act which will collapse their ability to transact gains from crime and extortion in foreign currencies.ÔÇØ
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The statement titled; "ECONOMIST'S FLAWED, ANTI-NIGERIA COVER: PRESIDENT BUHARI IS STRENGTHENING AFRICA'S DEMOCRACYÔÇØ read in parts:
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"The Buhari administration has sought to push back terrorism which has been a threat for more than two decades since the first emergence of Boko Haram. It is only the Buhari administration that has now sought to intervene against the kidnapping and banditry that has been a simmering threat for far longer.
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"It is only this President's government which has taken on IPOB, the violent terrorist group which bombs police stations and offices of security agencies, while also threatening those who break their Monday-sit-ins whilst claiming the mantle of forebears who half a century ago fought a civil war. And it is only the Buhari leadership which has sought - ever, in over one hundred years - to identify the root causes of the herder-farmer clashes and find durable solutions.
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The forms may have altered, and the threats posed by each may have waxed and waned, but what has been constant is that administration after administration since independence - whether military or democratic - none sought to fully address these threats to Nigeria as President Buhari's government does now.
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Today, the military is engaged in almost all the states of Nigeria because the President has insisted upon addressing these decade-after-decade-long issues during his time in office.
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In the South-East, IPOB - which the Economist rightly describes as "delusionalÔÇØ - the arrest and present trial of the terrorist leader of the group is the beginning of its demise.
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The President's administration is redoubling efforts to have IPOB rightfully designated as a terrorist group by our allies outside of Nigeria - an act which will collapse their ability to transact gains from crime and extortion in foreign currencies.
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It is important to remind the Economist and the global media that this group's aggression and widespread presence on social media does not reflect their public support, for which they have none: all elected governors, all elected politicians and all elected state assemblies in the South-East - which IPOB claim to be part of their fantasy kingdom - reject them completely.ÔÇØ
