Professor Charles Soludo, candidate of the All Progressives
Grand Alliance (APGA) for the November 6, 2021, governorship election has
stated his position on the activities of the proscribed Indigenous People of
Biafra, IPOB, in Southeast.
Soludo said he would have a dialogue with the leadership of
the IPOB to know what they are agitating for, adding that they need to be
heard.
He said this during the Anambra governorship election debate
organised by Arise TV.
When asked if he agreed with IPOB’s activities, Soludo said: “Let me be clear, I am the only one on this podium who is very clear on IPOB agitations.
“I am a pan Africanist and a pan Nigerian. However, I am on
record to have also said the IPOB deserves to be heard. These things were the
ideas that the agitations cannot be shut down by a gun when my brother [Andy
Uba] said that he has to find out he is living on the moon. All these years,
you do not know what IPOB is agitating for.
“You know what they are agitating for. You are either for or
against. For me, we need to have a dialogue, bring everybody to the table and
discuss those specific issues that are the agitations and come out with an
alternative view, and my alternative view is prosperity in Anambra and
prosperity for Southeast.”
Meanwhile, the leader of IPOB, Nnamdi Kanu, is currently
being detained at the Department of State Services, DSS.
Justice Binta Nyako had remanded Kanu in DSS custody till
November 10.
The federal government had arrested Kanu in 2017, but Nayko
of an Abuja Federal High Court granted him bail.
Kanu, however, jumped the bail and fled Nigeria.
He claimed that he fled due to an attempt on his life by the
Nigerian Army.
However, the IPOB leader was rearrested in July in Kenya and
repatriated to Nigeria to continue his trial.
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