IPOB said Edoziem would run its affairs until its leader, Nnamdi Kanu, is released.
According to the group's spokesman, Emma Powerful, Edoziem will hand over leadership to Kanu once he is released.
"For the avoidance of 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," the statement reads in part.
Edoziem is widely regarded as IPOB's deputy leader.
Kanu is currently locked up by the Department of State Services, DSS.
The DSS has held the IPOB leader since he was re-arrested and repatriated from Kenya in 2011.
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