Pro-Biafra Group Leader, Nnamdi Kanu Of IPOB Says BBNaija 2020 Is "Useless"

Nnamdi Kanu, a Nigerian Biafra political activist, and leader of the outlawed Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), a group canvassing for the secession and sovereignty of Eastern Nigeria, has described the Big Brother Naija (BBNaija) 2020 edition as "useless", criticising the majority of Nigerians for not paying attention to important national matters, AllNews reports.

Self-exiled Kanu via his known Facebook page on Wednesday continued his agitation for #BiafraExit. He used the avenue to aim a dig at BBNaija staunch followers.

BBNaija Season 5 which commenced on July 19, 2020, ends this Sunday.

"Nnamdi Kanu and IPOB don't fall for garbage," Kanu said in the broadcast monitored by this reporter.

"Our brain is intact. Every day, we analyse; every day, we compute. Every day, we are going through their (Nigerian government) intentions and motives line by line.

"Some of you go to sleep. You eat and you go to sleep. You watch useless Big Brother and you go to sleep.

"We don't sleep. We are awake every blessed day analysing the intention of the enemy.

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"You are all blind in the Zoo (referring to Nigeria)."

Kanu, IPOB, and Biafra Cause

Controversial Kanu wants Nigeria divided, saying 'One Nigeria' is not working.

The 52-year-old, behind Nigeria's separatists, founded the now-banned IPOB in 2014.

The plan to break away from Nigeria and form the independent nation of Biafra 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.

But the idea of separatism has bubbled away since then and Kanu is the latest in a line of Biafran activists taking up the cause.

He 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 broadcast to Nigeria from London.

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

At a time, he was tried for charges of "criminal conspiracy, intimidation and membership of an illegal organisation" by Nigeria's Department of State Services (DSS).

Kanu was subsequently released on bail 'for health reasons'. And he fled the shores of Nigeria in September 2017. He has not returned since then.