If Anything Happens To Nnamdi Kanu, A More Deadlier Successor Will Rise – Igbo Group Warns Buhari

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A pan Igbo socio-cultural organization, Imeobi Igbo Forum has warned the Federal Government to ensure that no harm was meted out to the leader of Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Mazi Nnamdi Kanu while in its custody to avoid having a successor that obviously would be deadlier in retaliation.

Sounding the note of warning in Onitsha, the Forum National chairman, Chief Mike C. Ikegulu, also stressed the need to describe IPOB and call Kanu to a negotiating table as the best way to go.

“This will go a long way to assuaging the feeling of the youths of the erstwhile Eastern Region of Nigeria. That will resolve the matter in order to prevent replacing one Nnamdi Kanu with another that likely will be deadlier in retaliation. So that the success of abducting Kanu will be to an ending benefit to all”.

According to him, “Boko Haram, ISWAP and bandits are internationally recognised terror organizations that have sacked villages, driven away thousands of Nigerians into refugee camps in and outside the country.

These groups have occupied and hoisted flags in Nigerian territories, demanding an Islamic state. Some others have been agitating, holding rallies and hoisting flags. Governors and religious leaders have been meeting with them in the company of retinue of security operatives suing for peace and understanding. None of these leaders has been.

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called to question” he fumed.

“We advise Mr President to handle this case for what it is, a political matter”, recalling that on some occasions in the past the forum sued for peace and dialogue between the government and the various separatist organizations adding that “another window of such has just opened with the bringing back Nnamdi Kanu, let’s resist the temptation of making him either a martyr or a hero,” he further advised.

In a press release he signed with his secretary, Chibuike Nwabueze, and made available to newsmen, Chief Ikegulu said that the call for a referendum could not be seen as a declaration of war like the Miyetti Allah Cattle Rearers Association that has owned up to scores of atrocities committed against farmers on the fate of Kanu.

“The permanent solution will come when the issues that border on structural imbalances of the Nigerian Federation are addressed. Let the kite perch and the Eagle perch” he stated

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