Biafra: Nnamdi Kanu Speaks On Tinubu Becoming President In 2023

 

Nnamdi Kanu, the leader of the outlawed Indigenous Peoples of Biafra (IPOB) has asked his people to "think twice" about helping colossal Nigerian politician, Bola Ahmed Tinubu to power in 2023.

Allnews reports that 68-year-old Tinubu is being mooted in some quarters as a possible successor to President Muhammadu Buhari in the next Nigerian General elections. However, the controversial Kanu is strongly aversed to that.

Speaking on Wednesday in his Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) update online broadcast, Kanu lambasted Nigeria's major political parties, while calling for a revolution.

“It doesn’t matter if they are PDP or APC, they are all the same," Kanu said.

"They have all failed you and will continue to fail you unless you upgrade your reasoning by a revolution which is needed now.

“Those thinking if Bola Ahmed Tinubu gets to power, things will be better for them, better think twice.

"Olusegun Obasanjo was there for eight years, did your life get any better?

“Those in the Southern part of Biafra, Goodluck Jonathan was there for six years, what was the outcome?”

Furthermore, the 52-year-old has a message for "law-abiding Fulanis".

 “To the law-abiding Fulani, I am not your enemy, IPOB is not your enemy.

"My enemies are the cabals holding you down.

“Those of you Fulanis that want to see your lives to improve, we are here to help you to become free.

"Let them not deceive you with oil and gas. Soon, the oil will be useless,” Kanu asserted.

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Kanu was a relatively obscure figure until 2009 when he started Radio Biafra, a station that called for an independent state for the Igbo people and is broadcast to Nigeria from London.

Though he grew up in Nigeria's south-east and went to the University of Nsukka, Kanu moved to the UK before graduating.

Soon after setting up the now-banned IPOB in 2014, he spoke to gatherings of the large Igbo diaspora, calling for Biafran independence.

The plan for a Biafra state is not new.

In 1967, Igbo leaders declared a Biafran state. But after a brutal civil war, which led to the deaths of up to a million people, the secessionist rebellion was defeated.

Kanu is the latest in a line of ethnic Igbo activists taking up the cause of pushing for an independent state, saying the Igbos have been marginalised by successive Nigerian governments.