Nnamdi Kanu, leader of the
Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), will return to Nigeria to mobilise support
for the creation of Biafra, according to Emma Powerful, IPOB spokesman.
Powerful revealed on Monday
that Kanu will visit Nigeria as part of his current tour of some countries
where he is preaching the group’s secessionist cause.
The IPOB leader, who is being
prosecuted before a federal high court in Abuja for alleged treason, has been
out of the country since September, 2017.
A crackdown on the group — which
has since been banned and declared a terrorist organisation — forced him to go
into hiding only to resurface in Jerusalem after one year.
His failure to show up in court
after being granted bail forced the court to revoke the bail and issue a bench
warrant against him.
While Kanu had been silent on his
return to Nigeria, he has been reportedly holding town-hall meetings with his
followers in various countries including US and Canada over IPOB’s demand for a
Biafran state.
Powerful told TheCable on Monday
that Kanu will visit Nigeria in the course of the tour, but was silent on when
such visit would hold.
“I will not disclose it (when)
now until he makes it official for us to tell people,” the IPOB spokesman told
TheCable over the phone.
“At the appropriate time we
(will) communicate (to) you people. Government of Nigeria can do whatever they
like. Biafra will come and nobody can stop Biafra.”
Meanwhile, in a statement issued
during the weekend, Powerful said the group is “currently engaged in deep and
fruitful consultations with local and international stakeholders, power brokers
and influencers through our diplomatic
outreach which for obvious reasons has been kept out of public discuss.”
“One thing is certain, this IPOB
led agitation for Biafra independence will not repeat the mistakes of the
past,” he said in the statement.
“As the gospel and restoration of
Biafra is receiving wonderful and unprecedented acceptance across the globe,
our leader will continue to educate, enlighten and fire-up our people and
lovers of freedom all over the world for the inevitable collapse of the British
made damnable contraption called Nigeria.”
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