Earlier in the week, Buhari got the $3 billion Kolmani Integrated Development Project to start making oil and gas for sale.
The Kolmani project, with Oil Prospecting Licenses 809 and 810, is between the fields of Gombe and Bauchi. It is in the Gongola Basin of the Upper Benue Trough, which is between the two northern states.
The field's backers say it will produce about 50,000 barrels of crude oil per day and has more than a billion barrels of crude oil reserves, bringing Nigeria's oil reserves to over 38 billion barrels.
In response to this news, Emma Powerful, a spokesperson for IPOB, said that money from the oil field would be used to spread jihadist ideas.
In a statement, Powerful said, "We, the global movement and family of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), under the command and leadership of our great leader and prophet Mazi Nnamdi KANU, confirm the answer to the prayers of our leader about the discovery of oil in the North." In one of his most famous broadcasts on Radio Biafra, he asked God Almighty Chukwu Okike Abiama to give crude oil to the Northern Region of Nigeria.
"Northern Nigeria has a lot of solid minerals that are more valuable than crude oil, and there are a lot of them there. But they are willing to do unthinkable things because of the oil in Biafraland. This is because they want oil and are eager to take over other places. In his infinite wisdom, God Almighty Eze Chukwu Okike has settled the fraudulent contraption’s age-long problem of unity occasioned by crude oil.
“Crude oil discovery in the North will certainly settle this forced unity if indeed, they are truthful in settling Nigeria’s problem. Biafrans are not interested in oil or no oil. All we need is a good place to work where we don't have to worry about terrorists at our borders.
He went on to say, "Now that every part of Nigeria has oil, can we all just go our own ways and mind our own business?"
