Nnamdi Kanu, leader of the
Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), says former Vice-President Atiku Abubakar
is originally from Cameroon and became Nigerian only through a referendum.
Kanu said this on Saturday during
a “special broadcast” on Radio Biafra, according to a statement from Emma
Powerful, IPOB spokesman.
He was speaking on the need for a
referendum on IPOB’s quest for a sovereign state of Biafra, and on boycott of
the upcoming elections to achieve this.
According to Kanu, Atiku is from
former Sarduana province of Cameroon that later joined Nigeria through a
referendum.
“I need not mention other
nations, which in the recent past, had applied boycott as a means to expressing
and achieving their demands for freedom.
“Nigeria’s experience with
election boycott in 1964 tells the same story but they have banned history and
thus won’t teach you that in schools. They won’t tell you that Chief Obafemi
Awolowo used boycott of elections to achieve his goal in the west.
“They also won’t tell you that
it’s referendum (called a plebiscite in this case) that brought about the
creation of an autonomous mid-west region of Nigeria in 1963, and before then –
the unification of the former Sarduana province of Cameroon (where Atiku came
from) with Nigeria, and part of southeastern Nigeria joined Cameroon.
“All through a referendum, and
heavens did not fall. It was that referendum in the north-east that enabled
Atiku Abubakar to become a Nigeria otherwise he would be a Cameroonian today.
“Why is it that the same process
that made it possible for Atiku to become a Nigerian instead of a Cameroonian
cannot be extended to me as a Biafran?”
Kanu added that the Igbo
boycotting the general election “is an indirect referendum and therefore should
be considered a major assignment between now and the night of February, 16th
2019.”
Kanu had alleged that a clone he
referred to as Jubril from Sudan is the one in charge of Nigeria, not President
Muhammadu Buhari.
Weeks after the rumor went viral,
Buhari dismissed it, saying he is in control of the country.
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Nnamdi Kanu says Buhari Jibrin is from Sudan. Now he says Atiku is from Cameroon.
ReplyDeleteBiko Nnamdi should tell me where I hail from; I'm staring to feel I'm not a Nigerian.