In a statement issued on April 5, 2026, signed by its spokesperson, Emma Powerful, IPOB said the incidents cited by American missionary Alex Babir in a viral video reflected what the group described as long-standing predictions made by Kanu before his arrest in 2021.
The Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) has claimed that recent coordinated attacks across several Nigerian states vindicate warnings by its imprisoned leader, Nnamdi Kanu, while demanding his immediate and unconditional release.
In a statement issued on April 5, 2026, signed by its spokesperson, Emma Powerful, IPOB said the incidents cited by American missionary Alex Babir in a viral video reflected what the group described as long-standing predictions made by Kanu before his arrest in 2021.
Powerful alleged that the attacks were coordinated and not the result of farmer-herder clashes or banditry, insisting that the situation represented “a deliberate, ideologically driven expansionist agenda.” He claimed that Kanu had, for over a decade, warned about such developments during broadcasts and public statements.
According to the statement, IPOB maintained that Kanu’s warnings were ignored by political authorities, alleging that efforts were instead made to silence him.
The group reiterated its claim that Kanu’s arrest in Kenya in June 2021 and subsequent detention were aimed at stopping him from speaking about the security situation.
IPOB further alleged that despite a 2022 court ruling discharging Kanu, the Nigerian government continued to hold him in custody. The group argued that his imprisonment had prevented him from contributing to discussions on insecurity and claimed that his release would help address the situation.
“For more than ten years, from Radio Biafra broadcasts to public statements across the globe, Onyendu Mazi Nnamdi Kanu stood alone and thundered the truth: This is not “farmer-herder clashes.” This is not “banditry.” This is not “resource conflict.”
“This is a deliberate, ruthless, ideologically driven Islamic expansionist jihad — a full-scale war of conquest to Islamise Nigeria, eliminate indigenous populations, and impose caliphate dominance from Sokoto to the South. He named it. He dated it. He mapped it,” Powerful stated.
“He called out the Fulani Janjaweed militias as the vanguard of this jihad, the same forces now confirmed by independent eyewitnesses like Alex Babir attacking in coordinated waves across Kwara, Ogun, Plateau, Barkin Ladi, Bokkos, Niger, and beyond.”
The statement also called on the international community, including foreign governments and intelligence agencies, to take notice of what it described as coordinated violence across parts of Nigeria. IPOB insisted that the attacks were not isolated incidents but part of a broader pattern.
Powerful said, “Mazi Nnamdi Kanu must be released immediately and unconditionally. His prophecies have been vindicated,” adding that the group believed his continued detention undermined efforts to address the security challenges.
“The sooner the world wakes up to this reality, the better for the survival of humanity in Nigeria. Mazi Nnamdi Kanu must be released immediately and unconditionally. His prophecies have been vindicated in blood. The cage in Sokoto cannot contain the truth forever. Biafra is awake. The caliphate project stands exposed.”
The organisation concluded by urging global stakeholders to intervene, maintaining that the situation required urgent attention and reiterating its demand for Kanu’s release
“History will not be kind to those who watched this genocide unfold and chose complicity. The blood of the slain cries out from the ground. We demand justice. We demand his freedom. We demand the world stop pretending this is anything other than what Mazi Nnamdi Kanu said it was — a religious war of total domination,” he said.
“The earth is shaking. The truth is out. There is no hiding place left for the butchers or their enablers.”