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  • Updated: June 10, 2020

Biafra: Shehu Sani Reveals Only Way Buhari Can Crush Nnamdi Kanu, IPOB Supporters

Biafra: Shehu Sani Reveals Only Way Buhari Can Crush Nnamdi

Erstwhile lawmaker representing Kaduna Central, Senator Shehu Sani, has advised the President Muhammadu Buhari government to treat all Nigerians with fairness irrespective of tribe, stressing that this is one sure way of stripping separatist leader, Nnamdi Kanu, of followers.

He spoke against the backdrop of the recent claim by the Presidency that the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) is peddling false claims with the aim of causing disaffection between the Nigerian government and its United States and United Kingdom/European allies.

AllNews recalls that President Buhari’s Senior Special Adviser on Media and Publicity, Garba Shehu, had issued a statement where he stated that IPOB has founded a Christian non-governmental organisation (NGO) and a linked web-based campaign named “Stop the Silent Slaughter” which is designed and complete with video “evidence” completely concocted.

The statement read, “Nigerians and the international community are advised to be wary of this divisive campaign, which available evidence shows is being funded with monthly spending of $85,000 USD since October 2019, with no records of the source of this largesse.

“The campaign consists of producing articles in the names of the alleged Christian NGOs’ leaders (of campaign groups created at the time this PR contract with a US lobbying firm was signed) and letters to and from members of Congress to the White House.

“Unfortunately, some members of congress have clearly been persuaded there is indeed a “Christian persecution” underway in Nigeria – and do so quoting the campaign – and they are known to be taking up the case directly with the White House to appoint the special envoy.

“The American charity secured a meeting with US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and has made presentations to the US Commission on International Religious Freedom.

“There is also a UK and European angle of the Campaign, which is more opaque than its US sister campaign – given there is less legal requirement for public filings – but what is known of this at the moment is that their budget is sufficient to hire four PR firms in the UK, Belgium, France and the US.”

Responding to this alert from the presidency, Kanu boasted that his separatist group had already achieved the destruction of Nigeria, which will soon become evident.

Weighing in via a post on his Facebook page on Wednesday, Shehu Sani advised the government to treat the Igbo with fairness and justice in order to defeat IPOB.

He wrote: “The only way to defeat the Igbo man who supports the IPOB is to treat the Igbo man who supports Nigeria with fairness and justice and to treat all Nigerians with fairness and Justice.

“As long as we would continue to run a nation and a system where a collective punishment is meted on a people because of their political decision or history, we are simply emboldening the secessionists and their sympathizers.

“Love those who hold the national flag to crush those who reject the national flag so that our great country can withstand all subversions.”

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