Mazi Nnamdi Kalu, the leader of the IPOB group has challenged President Buhari on the recent meeting between the president and the service Chiefs to deal with members of Boko Haram, IPOB and Headsmen, the Biafra leader challenged the head of state to defeat him with superiority of his argument and not with AK 47, he said this to news men in his home town Afaraukwu Ibeku, Umuahia in Abia State. The meeting between the president and the service chiefs was held on Tuesday, Mr President ordered the service chiefs to deal with all this groups, that are threatening the security and unity of the country.
In his reaction, however, the Biafra leader
faulted the president, saying that the penchant by Buhari for recourse
to brute force to solving burning national problems would never work,
adding that he (Kanu) would not succumb to intimidation.
“In
this debate for freedom everybody has to be heard. Buhari should defeat
me with the superiority of his argument, not AK47,” he said, adding
that “those that quickly resort to violence, hate and intimidation do so
because they have lost the force of argument”.
Kanu
argued that it was very wrong for the president to compare and lump
IPOB, a peaceful mass movement, with Boko Haram, an internationally
recognised terrorist organisation.
He pointed out that the
decision by Buhari to unleash Nigeria’s security forces on IPOB had
further demonstrated his dictatorial traits and his determination to
enforce national unity on his own terms and those of his people.
“It
is the continuation of the Buhari regime’s dictatorial and
unwholesomely undemocratic approach to governance. I find it
unacceptable, abhorrent and insulting that somebody elected by the
people can turn around and dictate to them how he wants them to behave,” the IPOB leader said.
Kanu
reminded Buhari that he was elected to govern Nigeria and he should,
therefore, face the business of governance “and not to instigate another
war”.
He advised the Nigerian president to borrow a leaf
from former US President Dwight Eisenhower who was an army commander,
fought in a war and later became president because he was a Democrat at
heart.
Nonetheless, Kanu insisted that no matter how
menacingly Buhari intends to bare his fangs, his action would in no way
diminish the quest for Biafra’s self-determination, saying: “We are not
afraid because IPOB is a peaceful mass movement, not a violent armed
group.”
Kanu stated that no matter how anybody intends to
characterise IPOB, there must be a distinction between a non-violent,
peaceful mass movement as represented by IPOB and any other group whose
activities pose a threat to national security.
According to him,
“Most Nigerians live in denial, they know the truth but have chosen to
ignore it,” adding that the records are there to prove that IPOB has
remained a peaceful, non-violent organisation since its formation.
He said:
“There is no record of injury being sustained, people fighting or
having any altercation in any of the numerous IPOB gatherings where
people converged in their millions to listen to this gospel of the
restoration of Biafra. Not one single incident.“We are the most
disciplined, most well behaved mass movement anywhere on the face of
this planet. Despite the genocidal killings, despite the arbitrary
arrests, illegal detentions without trial, we can never be provoked into
any armed conflict. “We have refused to be provoked to armed rebellion;
that is what Buhari is looking for. Buhari wants a war but we won’t
oblige him because we are civilized people.”
Nnamdi Kanu claims he does not want war but he does not know that what he is doing will result to war, and so he should be prepared for the outcome of these things because if he continues to push the President to the wall he alone will fight the war, am using this platform to appeal to Ndi Igbo that any body that has a friend or relative that is a member of the IPOB group, should tell him or her to stay clear because anybody killed on this process is a wasted corps nothing will happen, your international supporters will not help you. YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED.
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