The Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) has said that the unfolding agenda of President Muhammadu Buhari since coming to power has proved that its leader, Nnamdi Kanu, was not a rabble rouser after all.
In a press statement issued by its spokesperson, Emma Powerful, the group said that what is being witnessed in the country today was unthinkable a few years ago, counting from Buhari’s assumption of office in mid-2015.
It regretted that when Kanu drew attention to those issues in the past, he was accused of beating war drums while IPOB was declared a terrorist group and proscribed.
Taking the issues one after the other, IPOB said :”First, Nnamdi Kanu was the first to accuse Buhari of plotting a Jihad and Fulanization of Nigeria as far back as 2015.
“He was widely condemned for it, even by some of the eminent persons who have now turned full circle to saying exactly the same thing four years later in 2019”.
“Among them, General Theophilus Danjuma even took his petition to the United Kingdom government and both he and (Ohaneze Ndi-Igbo president) Nnia Nwodo and other ‘converts’ are now sounding more militant than the myriad pronouncements issuing from Nnamdi Kanu that these people had roundly condemned as militancy and criminal to boot”.
Also, the group said, as far back as 2016, Kanu warned about an impending assault on the judiciary, especially the Supreme Court and called on Nigeria Bar Association to prime itself to resist it.
Again, Kanu warned about a federally-supported and empowered Fulani inroads into middle and southern Nigeria but again, his warnings were dismissed as ‘hate speech’.
This treatment against him notwithstanding, Kanu further warned that the 2019 elections would be rigged to return Buhari to power for which reason he had deployed it as the main justification for ordering a boycott of the election in South-East and South-South.
These indicated that Kanu deserved a pat on the back and not vilification.
