Victor Umeh, a former National Chairman of the All
Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA), has insisted that the continued
incarceration of Nnamdi Kanu, the leader of Indigenous Peoples of Biafra
(IPOB), by the Federal Government is a way of dealing with the entire Igbo
nation.
Umeh said that the Buhari led Federal Government is handling
the issue of Kanu as a personal matter, adding that it has become difficult for
them to handle.
He said this during a chat with reporters in Onitsha at the
weekend.
Umeh, a former Senator who represented the Anambra Central
Senatorial zone, said, “They treat the Nnamdi Kanu issue as a personal thing.
It is not. Nnamdi Kanu enjoys the solidarity and sympathy of the Igbo people
because he is calling for the de-marginalisation of Ndigbo.
“He wants the equality of citizenship rights for all in
Nigeria. The government thinks it’s Nnamdi Kanu they are dealing with, not
knowing that they are dealing with all of us, the entire Igbo nation.”
He added, “It’s pertinent for the Federal Government to
realise that they are dealing with the entire Igbo nation and that has become
so difficult for them to handle.”
“If they do it, there will be no problem. Once the
government changes its attitudes toward Igbos, we’ll embrace Nnamdi Kanu and
ask him to allow this thing to lie. I know he’ll do it as he did during the
governorship election.”
Kanu is currently facing terrorism charges before Justice
Binta Nyako of an Abuja Federal High Court.
His trial will continue on February 16.
A 15-count terrorism charge was on Wednesday, January 19,
slammed on Kanu by the Federal Government.
The IPOB leader pleaded not guilty to the charges and asked
the court to discharge and acquit him without standing trial because the
charges were incurably defective and not worth being defended.
He claimed the charges, which he denied upon arraignment,
were incompetent, invalid and have no force of law.
The alleged secessionist, through his counsel, Mike Ozekhome
SAN, insisted that the offences brought against him were committed in the
United Kingdom, outside the shores of Nigeria.
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