Nigerian President Warns Of IPOB’s Strong Paramilitary Force

The Presidency has decried a recent alliance between the Yoruba Nation agitators and the Indigenous People of Biafra, warning that such a treaty cannot be taken seriously because of the violent antecedents of the IPOB.<br />The Special Assistant to the President, Garba Shehu, says the president warned that the IPOB is a designated terrorist organization that has now publicly revealed a 50,000 strong paramilitary organization.<br />Mr Shehu urged the Yoruba secessionist group to quit its association with IPOB because it regularly murders security agents and innocent civilians, with a significant uptick of violent attacks this year.<br />He further explained that the IPOB is attempting to hold Nigerian states hostage with orders to stay at home under threat of terror.