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Biafran activist, Nnamdi Kanu on Friday, New Year's Day, continued his agitation for the sovereignty of the Eastern Nigerian region, AllNews reports.
According to the self-exiled leader of the proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), "our courage rises at every attempt to intimidate us".
Kanu quoted a statement attributed to Alhaji Sir Ahmadu Bello, the former premier of Northern Nigeria, where he talked about the Eastern Nigerian region's intention to break away from Nigeria.
"It’s the presence of a compatriot spirit amongst citizens that bounds a nation together," Kanu wrote on his known Twitter handle.
“If the East insisted on seceding, then other Nigerians ought to concede such a right in peace” (Ahmadu Bello, 1964).
It’s 2020 & we still insist. There is a stubbornness about #Biafra that can never be subdued & our courage rises at every attempt to intimidate us. #ESN.— Mazi Nnamdi Kanu (@MaziNnamdiKanu) January 1, 2021
Kanu's IPOB was outlawed in Nigeria after the federal government accused it of terrorism, although most of its programmes and protests have been largely peaceful.
The government has also clamped down violently on IPOB members with some of the attacks condemned by rights groups, including Amnesty International.
Kanu is currently on exile abroad after he jumped bail from his trial for treason in Nigeria.
He tweets, posts on Facebook, and conducts online broadcast from overseas to lash out at the Muhammadu Buhari administration and the nation, Nigeria.
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.
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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.
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