In what some persons described as abuse of the bail conditions granted him, the leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Nnamdi Kanu, has been granting press interviews and making statements that tend to add to the storm created by his agitation for a sovereign Biafra nation.
Kanu, speaking on Wednesday at his father’s palace in Afara Ukwu Ibeku, Umuahia, Abia State, said that there would be no gubernatorial election in Anambra State and in the entire South East in 2019 if the Federal Government fails to hold referendum before the election. Anambra governorship election holds this November. He spoke on a day the Acting President, Yemi Osinbajo, was meeting with governors of the 36 states on how to still the storm raging across the country occasioned by Kanu’s agitation for Biafra and the subsequent quit notice to Igbos in the north by a faceless northern coalition.
The IPOB leader faulted his exclusion from the ongoing stakeholders meeting in Aso Rock, saying he would not relent in his agitation for Biafra.
He said his members and other eligible voters in Anambra State would boycott the state gubernatorial election slated for November adding that the people of the Southeast and others under the Old Eastern Region would not participate in the 2019 general election if the government ignores the demand for referendum.
Looking very confident, he charged: “Nigerian government should build as many prisons as possible to jail all Biafrans because there is no going back and we are ready to go there (prisons) unless the federal government gives us Biafra,” he said.
“We are starting with Anambra come November this year. There will be no governorship election in Anambra State.
“In 2019, the whole of Biafra land will not vote for any President.
“There will be no Senator, there will be no House of Reps, there will be no House of Assembly and there will be no councillorship elections in Biafra land if they (federal government) fail to call for a referendum.
“We are not like any other people. People like us don’t come twice. That’s why I know that with the last breath in this very body that Biafra will be restored.
“There’s nothing anybody can do about it. Tell them that’s what I said. Nobody on this earth can stop Biafra.”
