The proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) has announced the appointment of Mazi Chika Edoziem as its interim leader.
The group’s spokesman, Emma Powerful made this known in a press statement released to the general public on Monday.
The statement reads in part: “For the avoidance doubt, the Directorate of State of the Indigenous People of Biafra (DOS), headed by Mazi Chika Edoziem, is at the helm of affairs of the Biafra movement; whenever our leader Mazi Nnamdi Kanu comes out, he hands over IPOB structure back to him.”
It would be recalled that the group’s Directorate of State has been the sole arm of the organization running its affairs since the incarceration of their founding leader, Nnamdi Kanu in June, last year.
Edoziem is reportedly one of the arrowheads of the group’s controversial sit-at-home order in the South East geo-political zone. While the order has since been cancelled by the group, most residents of the zone have continued to observe it out of fear of attack by unknown gunmen.