Abia State Governor, Okezie Ikpeazu,
has denied offering N3Million for the capture of the Indigenous People of
Biafra (IPOB) leader, Nnamdi Kanu.
His Senior Special Assistant on
Public Communication, Sam Hart, in a Twitter on Tuesday, debunked the
allegations.
Hart claimed that Ikpeazu
received criticisms for protecting Northerners in the state, during their
clashes with IPOB members last week.
He wrote: “Gov Okezie Ikpeazu has
received flak for his protection of Northerners in Abia State & not
allowing them to be attacked. I’ll explain why.
“While there are approximately
1,000 Northerners in Abia State, there are conversely 2M Abians spread around
Northern Nigeria & Abuja.
“While the total investments of
Northerners in Abia State may not exceed N10M per time, the investment of
Abians in the North nears N100B.
“While it will take every
Northerner in Abia State just one day to pack up & leave Abia, Abians have
properties that are immovable in North.
“While every Northerner in Abia
State can be outside of Abia & danger in 30 mins, Abians in the North can
travel 8hrs & still be in the North
“While Northerners in Abia State
are itinerant traders & the likes, Abians in the North are Hoteliers,
School Proprietors & the likes.
“While no single Northerner has
acquired a square foot of land in Abia State, Abians own extensive properties
in the entire North.
“The implication of all these is
that if harm is done to Northerners in Abia State & there is a reprisal,
the ratio of damage will be 1:10000
“It is not cowardice. It is
leadership. A Leader takes a decision in the best interest of the greater
number of his people come what may.
“To get back at Gov Ikpeazu for
not allowing them spill consequential blood,they are spreading tales that he is
offering N3M for NK’s capture.
“While Nigerians think he did not
do enough to clamp down on IPOB activities, Biafrans think he did too much
& are up in arms against him.
“It was @i_am_Anomeli that once
tweeted the wisdom that in times of reprisals in the North, every non Hausa is
Nyamiri & so ‘attackable’.
“Had Hausas been killed in Abia
State & reprisals occurred in the North, people from all over Nigeria would
have been at risk. This is FACT.
“Had Gov Okezie Ikpeazu not taken
steps to douse the tension & protect Northerners, Nigeria would have still
been a burning cauldron.
“Mighty kudos too to Northern
Governors who rose to the occasion and ensured that there were no consequential
uprisings in their states.
“The Northern Community told the
Govs yesterday that fellow traders in Aba hid them in their houses until they
could get to safe locations.
“These fellow traders were Igbo.
Aba people who did not subscribe to the activities of IPOB. They hid Hausas in
their houses for protection.
“There are lessons in all of
this. Lessons in leadership. Lessons in unity. Lessons in not tarring all with
the brush of one.Lessons in peace
“May God continue to keep us
safe. A National Crisis was averted last week. God bless all who played one
part or another.”
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Now, it appears the only Strategy available to PDP and their Cohorts that they can use in fighting PMB is by Systematically making the Nigeria Ungovernable for APC and PMB.
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Henceforth in Nigeria, PDP and their Cohorts should be held responsible for all forms of Societal Unrest that threatens the Peace of Governance in Nigeria.
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