IPOB: Nigeria Will Cease To Exist If Nnamdi Kanu Is Rearrested

Three Igbo groups have warned the Federal Government against any plans to re-arrest the leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) Nnamdi Kanu, Vanguard reports.

According to the groups- the World Igbo Youth Movement, Igbo Students’ Forum and Igbo Diaspora Women Professionals, the action of the Coalition of Northern Youths which issued a quit notice to Igbos residing in the north, was more offensive than the activities of Kanu’s IPOB.

 The groups stated that they would not watch calmly as Igbos are driven out of the north, while also saying that IPOB was simply seeking how to actualize a sovereign Biafran state, through peaceful means.

The groups made their comments in a joint statement signed by Mazi Alex Okemiri for the World Igbo Youth Council; Prof. Helen Ogbonna for Igbo in Diaspora Women Professionals and Comrade Obi Izuo for Igbo Students’ Forum.

 The statement reads in part: “We caution that Nigeria may cease to exist if Nnamdi Kanu is re-arrested. “This may also be the fate of the country if the planned October 1 massacre is carried out against Ndigbo living in the north.”

In the same vein, the groups also urged Igbo indigenes to run for the presidency in the 2019 General Elections. According to the groups, there was no turning back on the Igbo presidency project in 2019, as it is their constitutional right.

Meanwhile, previous reports claimed that Lt-Gen Abdulrahman Dambazau (retd), Nigeria’s Minister of Interior, stated that Nnamdi Kanu, the leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, has violated his bail conditions.

 However, the Minister stated that while the IPOB leader may have violated the terms of his bail, the time has not yet come for him to return to court.


Watch below Nnamdi Kanu speak on Biafra.