STOP USING NNAMDI KANU AS A POLITICAL BARGAINING CHIP FOR ELECTION - IPOB
Mazi Nnamdi KANUIPOB, a pro-Biafra group has described the Nigerian election and its processes as sham exercises that are not worth its attention. Distancing itself from the election, IPOB said it had nothing to do with it, warning politicians, particularly, those of Igbo extraction to halt further insult against IPoB.
IPoB in a statement by its Media and Publicity Secretary, Emma Powerful wondered why some Igbo politicians including a particular one from Anambra State will say that their presidential candidate will release the leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPoB Mazi Nnamdi Kanu if he wins the forthcoming presidential election.
IPoB’s statement read: “The attention of the global movement and family of the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPoB, led by Mazi Nnamdi Okwuchukwu Kanu, has been drawn to the statement credited to officials of the PDP and a particular one from Anambra State to the effect that their presidential candidate will release the leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, if he wins the forthcoming presidential election slated for 25th of February 2023.
“IPoB leadership wishes to state that its leader should on no account be used as a political bargaining chip for the Nigerian election. Mazi Nnamdi Kanu has been judicially declared an innocent man and that follows that he must be released from his continued illegal detention and torture by this present government of APC.
“We do not expect anything in the contrary. The judgment of the Court of Appeal must be implemented. Moreover, the leadership of IPoB wants to inform the PDP that in as much as we have no issue with their statement that justifies the decision of the Court, their focus should be to demand that the Nigerian government obey the judgment of their court.
“Our demand has and will remain consistent irrespective of which person or party that is occupying Aso Rock, the Nigerian seat of power. Our self-determination agitation is our inalienable right and that is the reason
we have demanded a referendum which is a democratic process to enable Biafrans to determine their fate and decide where they wish to belong, whether in Nigeria or a free and sovereign Biafran Nation.”
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