The Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) urged President Muhammadu Buhari and his administration to stop showing their ignorance of and animosity toward Igbos on Friday.
IPOB was responding to Buhari’s most recent statement, made in Rwanda, that Kanu had jumped bail and that his release would be challenging.
The spokesman for IPOB, Emma Powerful, urged the international community to keep an eye on Buhari’s statements.
Kanu must defend his outbursts against the Nigerian government, Buhari had told UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson.
Powerful condemned the president’s remark and claimed it demonstrated interference in Kanu’s trial.
The president also pleaded with the international groups to label IPOB a terrorist organization.
Powerful’s statement, “Buhari and Presidency stop displaying their ignorance and hatred against Ndigbo to the public,” says in part: “Also, the presidency always releases statements accusing and holding IPOB accountable for all manner of crimes, both real and imagined. The impostor in Aso Rock’s sham accusation that IPOB is destroying oil pipelines across Nigeria, this time just days before Mazi Nnamdi Kanu’s court date, was the most recent of the Nigerian government’s intimidating strategies.
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Isn’t this the same Buhari who previously stated that the government would not interfere in a case that was currently before the court? He is currently using negative statements to intimidate the judge. The Nigerian Presidency’s statements, which unmistakably aim to seriously impede the judicial process, should be closely monitored by the international community and foreign governments. In his own court, can Buhari serve as a judge? Time will reveal.
“Southeast politicians and elites need to be more cautious about their security if this matter is further postponed, and perhaps, they employ private/personal security because they could become victims of these state-sponsored killings, intended to intimidate the Court into releasing Mazi Nnamdi Kanu.
“Buhari continues to make absurd claims about Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, claiming that he jumped bail in 2017 in far-off Kigali, Rwanda, where the meeting of the head of the Commonwealth’s governments is taking place. Boris Johnson, the prime minister of the United Kingdom, and other respectable world leaders ought to urge Buhari to refrain from interfering in Mazi Nnamdi KANU’s legal proceedings and from intimidating judges who are dealing with IPOB-related issues.
“The Buhari Fulani government has betrayed and exposed its true agenda, which is to destroy the only bulwark standing in the way of the Fulani agenda of total fulanization and islamization of Southern Nigeria and the Middle Belt of Nigeria, by openly, shamelessly, and wickedly lobbying the international community to designate IPOB a terror group while actively encouraging the mayhem, destruction, and killings being perpetrated by Fulani terrorist Herdsmen.”
