IPOB's Nnamdi Kanu Blasts Northern Elders Over Comment On Ndigbo

Nnamdi Kanu has lashed Northern Elders Forum (NEF) over the claim by its leader, Ango Abdullahi, that northerners outside the North suffered their worst attacks at the hands of Igbos. 

AllNews recalls that Abdullahi reportedly made the claim while addressing the northern community in Port Harcourt, Rivers State, during the forum’s ongoing tour of southern states to determine the rate of losses incurred by northerners in the region in the aftermath of the recent EndSARS protests and violence. 

“It is now becoming clear that most of the violence that are being meted out to the northerners in various parts of the South came from people from the south-eastern states. People with some names. 

“It is up to the authorities to assure all of us that this must end. This must stop. I think the North will no longer allow this redline to be crossed.

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“It is because people get away with criminal behavior without sanctions and punishment that is why they keep recycling this irresponsible behaviour,” the NEF chairman had said. 

But responding to Abdullahi, leader of the proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Nnamdi Kanu described his remarks as “unguarded and highly provocative.”

Speaking through IPOB’s spokesperson, Emma Powerful, on Thursday, Kanu wondered if Igbos were also behind the incessant killing of northerners by Boko Haram, herdsmen and bandits, amongst others. 

The IPOB leader claimed that northerners were reaping the reward of the alleged evil they created to undermine the administration of former President Goodluck Jonathan. 

He said, ”May we, therefore, ask Alhaji Ango Abdullahi and his co-travelers: between the Igbo and Fulani jihadists, who are terror inclined? Who among the two tribes has violence, terrorism, and killing without provocation in their DNA?

“Which of the two tribes harbor and have sympathy for the six most dangerous terrorist groups in the world – Boko Haram, killer herdsmen, Ansaru, ISWAP, ISIS, bandits? Are the Igbo the perpetrators of the daily carnage and pogrom committed by these vampires in the North?

“Were the Igbo behind the burning of car shops in Abuja and the looting of Igbo businesses in Lagos during the #EndSARS protests? ”

“The little snake nurtured by the North in their desperation to blackmail ex-President Jonathan out of power has become a python, and they are now looking for Ndigbo to blame instead of solving the problem they created.

“Ango Abdullahi should tell the world how many times any act of terror has been linked to any Igbo or Biafran, whether within or outside Nigeria. Northern elders and their Southern slaves should leave Ndigbo and Biafrans out of their ordeal.”

“It needs no proof that Ndigbo are the most hospitable, but unfortunately, the most victimized tribe in Nigeria. They are the victims of unprovoked killings and destruction of property in Nigeria often masterminded by the caliphate and their foot soldiers,” said Kanu.