The founder of the Customary
Government of the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, Barrister Emeka Emekesiri,
has accused Nnamdi Kanu, factional leader of the group, of building a “cult of
gangsters.”
Emekesiri said Kanu hijacked IPOB
from him and the originators of the group
The constitutional lawyer also
noted that Kanu was not speaking for people of the Southeast.
He stressed that his faction of
IPOB was working towards actualising Biafra with submissions made at the
National Assembly and court.
Emekesiri insisted that Kanu’s
rearrest does not affect the pursuit of Biafra’s agitation by his faction of
IPOB.
“The original IPOB is still going
on and nothing has happened to us, it’s just that those of you guys in the
media, you promote the Nnamdi Kanu faction because he makes a lot of noise and
you don’t want to promote the one that is before the Nigeria government.
“You can take a telephone now and
call Aso Rock, call the Senate President and ask about us, they have our
documents, they have our case and our papers are before the Nigeria authorities.
“So we are moving forward and
nothing has stopped us from moving forward.
“So Nnamdi Kanu’s arrest concerns
his own faction, his cult, he built a cult of gangsters and so he is not
speaking for us. Let it be known that Nnamdi Kanu does not speak for the Igbo
nation,” he said.
In the past few years, Kanu has
been the poster boy for the Biafra agitation.
Kanu used Radio Biafra and other
social media platforms to propagate and spread his agitation for secession.
In 2017, he was arrested and
granted bail by Justice Binta Nyako of an Abuja Federal High Court. But he
jumped bail and fled to Europe.
He was, however, rearrested a few
weeks ago by Nigerian security in collaboration with their foreign counterpart.
Upon his repatriation to Nigeria,
Kanu was brought before Justice Nyako who remanded him in custody of the
Department of State Services, DSS.
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