By Seun Opejobi The Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, on Tuesday, warned Governor Chukwuma Soludo of Anambra State against underest...
By Seun Opejobi
The Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, on Tuesday, warned
Governor Chukwuma Soludo of Anambra State against underestimating the affection
the people of the Southeast have for its leader, Nnamdi Kanu.
IPOB said Soludo and his cronies should be careful over the
continent’s intimidation of residents of the state, adhering to the Mondays’
sit-at-home order.
Soludo had ordered traders across Anambra State to disregard
the Monday sit-at-home order but it was flouted.
However, IPOB’s spokesman, Emma Powerful said those adhering
to the sit-at-home order were doing so due to their love for Kanu and not the
enforcers.
In a statement he signed, Powerful said: “We the great and
noble family of the Indigenous People of Biafra under the command of Mazi
Nnamdi Kanu wish to inform Governor Chukwuma Soludo not to underestimate the
deep affection Biafrans in the 13 contiguous states and especially those in
core Igboland and diaspora have for the leader of Biafra Mazi Nnamdi Kanu.
“Dear Governor, please know that people staying at home on
Mondays are doing so voluntarily not because of any threat from inconsequential
individuals or coercive action by any actors. Ask anybody, including those
purportedly enforcing the order, they will tell you that the release of Mazi
Nnamdi Kanu is all they require to stop.
“Biafrans see this act of self-sacrifice on Mondays as the
only way to register their protest and displeasure at the unwarranted and
continued unlawful detention of Mazi Nnamdi Kanu which south-east governors, of
which you are one, is actively aiding and abetting. The same people you are
asking to abandon their quiet protest on Mondays are the same people you and
your fellow governors from the southeast have repeatedly disappointed in your
calculated failure to honour your word to visit the Nigerian president to
formally request for the release of our leader. It’s nearly 6 months now since
you and your fellow governors resolved in your meeting at Enugu to visit
President Tinubu to effect the release of Onyendu Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, but to
date, nothing has happened.
“Insecurity in our own beautiful state of Anambra is still
raging and you know that the only thing that can bring this sorry state of
affairs to an immediate halt is the release of Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, yet you have
failed to activate this solution. In fairness to you, you tried to appeal to
the controllers of the last regime but they failed to see reason with you due
to their pathological hatred of the Igbo race.
“It’s also on record that south-east governors have failed
to honour their pledge to Igbo people worldwide to visit the presidency to
press for the release of our leader. As long as this remains the state of
affairs, most people will choose Monday as the day to protest their injustice
against the unlawful detention of our leader Mazi Nnamdi Kanu.
“You south-east governors are playing politics with this
issue of Monday sit-at-home and the attending Insecurity across our land
because you all underestimate the deep-seated anger and resentment our people
feel at the importance of the leadership to make a simple trip to Abuja. Deep
down in your hearts, you people- governors, are directly benefiting,
financially, from the chaos and mayhem, death and misery bedevilling the
ancient and sacred land of the Igbo race.
“Some of you governors who are happily enjoying an inflated
security budget on the back of insecurity in our land, occasioned by the
illegal incarceration of our leader, are to blame for the raging insecurity in
our land because you are the direct beneficiaries of insecurity.
“Those that choose to sit at home on Mondays are exercising
their right to peaceful protest. You are not in a position to sanction them
when they have not broken any laws. Those choosing to sit at home are doing so
because of Mazi Nnamdi Kanu and nobody else. You cannot stop it by force.”
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