The South-East Renewal Group
(SERG) has reacted to the position of Nnamdi Kanu, leader of the outlawed Indigenous
People of Biafra (IPOB) on the 2019 general elections.
The group said Kanu’s declaration
that there will be no election in South eastern part of Nigeria, which he
claimed to be ‘Biafra territory’, was a joke that shouldn’t be taken seriously.
Kanu, on Sunday finally opened
up, since he resurfaced in Jerusalem, Israel.
In a broadcast on Sunday evening,
Kanu vowed not to return to the Federal High Court in Abuja, where he was
standing trial before he left the country, describing Nigeria as a zoo.
In a broadcast via Radio Biafra,
Kanu boasted, “IPOB will liberate Biafra and we will not take part in any
election until we get a referendum and this is not negotiable, we will achieve
this by every necessary means, we thank Israel for all the contributions they
made to IPOB.”
Reacting to the controversial
broadcast, Charles Mbani, National President of SERG in a statement on Monday, said it was most unfortunate that Kanu was back to
cause trouble for people of South-East of Nigeria, who have spent the last one
year re-building confidence with their neighbours in their bid to repair the
damages caused by him and his IPOB members.
SERG declared that Nnamdi Kanu,
and the faction of IPOB that he leads, do not speak for the Igbo as a people.
He said, “His utterances are at
variance with the belief of the people of the South-East Nigeria, who are
cultured, have maximum regards for Nigerians of other ethnic stocks, believe in
the unity of Nigeria while they continue to clamour for restructuring that will
promote equity, respect constituted authority and institutions and will never
descend low to the point of disparaging other human beings.
“The annals have recorded it that
Nnamdi Kanu is a coward, who incited promising Igbo youths to throw away their
lives literarily and figuratively. He threw the entire South-East into
confusion and pocketed the money raised from suffering Igbo masses only for him
to escape when the people had erroneously thought he had something in stock for
them.
“It is the height of insult to
the Igbo sensibility for him to think that putting up this charade from the
Holy Land will fool Ndi Igbo another round. If he is broke and wants to use
this latest performance to finance his drug addled life he should have a
rethink and look for honest work to pay his own bills.
“We strongly believe that his
desperation for money has made him team up with those that are out to frustrate
the Igbo agenda and interest. We say this because it is curious that Kanu had
hidden for so long as a common criminal only for him to turn up at a time when
the political fortunes of the South East are improving with the nomination of
one of our own, Mr. Peter Obi as a Vice Presidential candidate in next year’s
election.
“SERG hereby categorically place
Nnamdi Kanu, IPOB and any miscreant that buys into the poisonous ideology they
promote that not only will election hold in the South-East but that people will
also come out to exercise their voting rights without being molested.
“Igbo will mobilize to ensure
this chance is not lost, certainly not in this lifetime. On the other hand, at
the end of the General Elections, which would hold everywhere in a united
Nigeria, Kanu would have proven beyond doubt that he is a liar and an utter
symbol of falsehood that is at best treated as a pariah.”
SERG further stressed that Igbo
youths should be warned by this development, adding that nothing to be gained
from supporting terrorist and separatist ideologies as the only region to have
allowed that in the country is today full of regrets.
He added, “We should rather
continue to support the federal government, irrespective of the ethnic group of
the person that occupies the office. Igbo youths, leaders and organizations
must also apologize to the Nigerian Army that was wrongly accused of killing
Kanu when in reality the coward ran away from the country on his volition.”
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