The Indigenous People of Biafra has warned a former governor of Imo State, Rochas Okorocha, to desist from using its name for campaign remarks.

The group described as “laughable, disgraceful and unguarded,” statements by the former governor on how IPOB was operating and convincing youths in the region.

In a statement on Wednesday, IPOB’s Media and Publicity Secretary, Emma Powerful, said Okorocha was one of the most “unfortunate” things that had happened to Imo State, adding that his infamous administration was better forgotten.

Powerful accused Okorocha of collecting many plots of land belonging to the people of Imo State by force and converting same to his personal property, while running the state as a private estate.

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The statement read in part, “Okorocha started this ranting during the jamboree declaration he did in Abuja and mentioned IPOB to appeal to his gullible audience. Since he has decided to use IPOB as a campaign slogan, let him prepare well!

“Okorocha arrested our women in Imo State, thinking he can break the spirit of IPOB followers. The present administration in Imo State collected people’s land that he took from them by force and handed back to the owners; since then, Okorocha hasn’t been himself, but we will soon expose him.

Nigerians know him for who he is: a hypocrite and selfish political fraudster. He should not play his evil politics close to IPOB. He tried everything he could as governor of Imo State to stop IPOB in which he failed and now he has started including IPOB in his infamous statement he was using to deceive the gullible minds in the state, thinking he can be allowed to use IPOB for political gains.

“His atrocities in Imo State are pursuing him and his families, including his son-in-law, Uche Nwosu, because he could not advise his father-in-law to allow people to have their ancestral land and homes. These will continue to hunt them till eternity.”