The Indigenous Peoples of Biafra (IPOB) is not exactly a pressure group. It is more like a self-determination group. But worse still, it is a group dedicatedly focused on how to break out of the Nigerian federation. Thus, it can rightly be described as a separatist group. It is based exclusively in the South eastern states of Nigeria. It is now being led by a certain 54-year old Nnamdi Kanu, from Abia State.
In the Beginning…
Before him was Ralph Uwazurike and his MASSOB (Movement of the Realisation of the Sovereign State of Biafra) noisome pestilence, also with the poise to break away the Igbos from the Nigerian federation.