Nigeria: Ipob Slams Blair Visit to El-Rufai, Says UK Instigating Ethno-Religious Violence

Awka — The Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) has criticized recent visit by former British prime minister Tony Blair to Kaduna state governor Nasir el-Rufai, insisting the move was targeted at instigating violence against Christians and Biafrans in Northern Nigeria.

IPOB's media and publicity secretary, Emma Powerful, alleged that the same British godfatherism towards the core North was also responsible for the military and diplomatic support that enabled Nigeria to win the genocidal war against Biafra between 1967 and 1970.

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