IPOB’s Nnamdi Kanu Adamant About Biafra

Nnamdi Kanu, the leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), on Friday continued to preach the Biafran message of secession from Nigeria.

Kanu, who took to his known Twitter handle to accuse the Muhammadu Buhari administration of being run by cabals, also charged Nigerians to resist "oppression".

There’s no other way to deal with oppression than to resist it. While resistance comes with risks, it’s far riskier to do nothing. Given that the Cabal ruling #Nigeria has made oppression its main business, it lies on every patriot to resist it until freedom is attained. #Biafra

— Mazi Nnamdi Kanu (@MaziNnamdiKanu) January 15, 2021

"There’s no other way to deal with oppression than to resist it, Kanu wrote.

"While resistance comes with risks, it’s far riskier to do nothing.

"Given that the Cabal ruling #Nigeria has made oppression its main business, it lies on every patriot to resist it until freedom is attained. #Biafra"

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Nnamdi Kanu has long used social media to spread precisely this message: that the Federal government of Nigeria has chronically neglected the Eastern region.

IPOB, an outlawed group, isn’t interested in persuading the government to provide better services. Its goal is to secede from Nigeria to become an independent country.

The idea of an independent Biafra dates back to 1967. That year, the premier of Nigeria’s Eastern region, Odumegwu Ojukwu, announced an independent republic. What followed was a 30-month war that led to the deaths of more than 2 million Nigerians and the reabsorption of the region back into Nigeria.

Dreams of a separate Biafran state had largely disappeared in the intervening years. But the region’s grievances never entirely went away.

And Kanu, 53, is unarguably the most prominent Biafra activist leading the charge, albeit from abroad.