Nnamdi Kanu more important than Anambra election, release him for peace to reign – Doyin Okupe

A former Senior Special Assistant to ex-President Goodluck Jonathan, on Public Affairs, Dr Doyin Okupe, has called on the Federal Government to release the leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, Nnamdi Kanu, if that would restore peace in the South-East geopolitical zone.

This is as Okupe, who decried the spates of violence in Anambra State, noted that the freedom and or life of the IPOB leader was more important than the November 6 governorship in the state, which he observed risked flawed, in the face of a militarised electoral process.

The former Presidential aide stated this in an exclusive interview with our Correspondent, in Abuja, on the sideline of the National Convention of the Peoples Democratic Party.

According to Okupe, the Jonathan administration treated the issue of Boko Haram with a wave of the hand when it was not full-blown, adding, however, that both the last and current administrations had spent billions of dollars to battle Boko Haram, all to no avail.

He said, “The Anambra State election is no doubt a security nightmare and a major cause for concern for many Nigerians.
Whether we like it or not, the IPOB has become an established “Army of Resistance” for self-determination in the South-East.

“Also, we must come to accept that the Biafra ideology has come to stay. Although it is self-evident that the major stakeholders of these movements are predominantly youths, the adult themselves share the concerns of these fighting youths even though they may prefer a different approach to achieving the same goals.

“Unfortunately also, concurrent events in the nation make the counsels of the elders untenable and therefore unacceptable to the warring youths.

“The Police have deployed 34, 000 officers. We do not know the numbers for the military and civil defence institutions. To the average citizens in Anambra State, this militarisation and over-policing, though inevitable, can nevertheless, be comforting.

“From my own projections, nothing less than 50% of normally voting population, purely out of fear and apprehension, will stay in their houses and avoid voting. If this happens, the election itself becomes substantially flawed. This is because a major ingredient of democratic suffrage, ‘free and fair’ will be absent.

“While one must of necessity concede to the Federal Government that it should not normally tolerate or succumb to internal threats to peace and good order, perhaps it’s now time to seek the seemingly elusive peace in the South-East.

“I hereby call on the Federal Government to release Nnamdi Kanu, if that will bring peace in the South-East zone, especially Anambra State. Nnamdi Kanu should be released for the sake of peace and order in that region. Nigerians are in pain. Nigerians are suffering and we can’t afford war whether local, regional or national. We don’t need it. We need peace.

“Nnamdi Kanu is more important than the Anambra State governorship election. We need peace in all parts of this country, and if the release of Kanu will bring peace in Anambra State and the entire South-East zone, please the Federal Government should release him now.

He added, “I call on the Federal Government at this point of our national history to invite the leadership of IPOB to a peace meeting. The Government should listen to the complaints of the youths from the South-East region and see how a true solution can be negotiated.

“I say this as someone who was part of government when Boko Haram was in its wake or infancy. The presumed might of the Federal Government made it look preposterous for the government to call a rag-tag group to a negotiating table.

“Now after more than 10 years, thousands of deaths, human tragedies and millions of internal human displacements, and with billions of dollars down the drain, I am convinced that it was indeed an error not to have negotiated for peace ab initio.

“Historically, since the mid-1900s, no insurgency, once fully established, lasts less than 15 years on the average. This is what I will like to remind this administration. Nigeria cannot afford to sustain another major internal rebellion, for another 15 years.”


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No problem he will be released

They have finally gotten this man. Just because he wants to contest for a imaginary president.


Kanu and his followers are terrorists

Una no sabi the road to where he is being lock up?

As Ezigbo Nwafor Anambra state,I'm ever ready that i have dusted my PVC.....








But i won't vote if our Prophet Mazi Nnamdi Kanu is not released because he's more important to us than that their election.








Note;Don't insult our prophet if you don't want us to insult your prophet.

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Juliusmalema:
Yawns

He stay in jail is just at the beginning stage. He will rot there.

Meanwhile election will hold in anambra state.

Ipob should go and buy one portion of Sahara desert , name it Biafra and build it up.

As for here, biafra is dead and buried, nailed Coffin.

My condolences are already with those who will foolishly sacrifice their lives to Fendi scammer called Nnamdi Kanu.

The day you die, that day your own biafra has come.

Meanwhile terrorists organization Ipob should go to DSS custody and release him. Nnamdi Kanu is not held in anambra state neither is he from Anambra or related to any community in anambra state.

He is from abia state , so he should wait and negotiate his release with upcoming elections in Abia state. That's how to do things.

Negotiate your freedom with Abia elections. Period.

[/s]Trash from impostor.

Okupe has spoken

Juliusmalema:
Yawns

He stay in jail is just at the beginning stage. He will rot there.

Meanwhile election will hold in anambra state.

Ipob should go and buy one portion of Sahara desert , name it Biafra and build it up.

As for here, biafra is dead and buried, nailed Coffin.

My condolences are already with those who will foolishly sacrifice their lives to Fendi scammer called Nnamdi Kanu.

The day you die, that day your own biafra has come.

Meanwhile terrorists organization Ipob should go to DSS custody and release him. Nnamdi Kanu is not held in anambra state neither is he from Anambra or related to any community in anambra state.

He is from abia state , so he should wait and negotiate his release with upcoming elections in Abia state. That's how to do things.

Negotiate your freedom with Abia elections. Period.

Don’t mind them, only if they knew the President doesn’t give a fuckus about their wailing, the nuisance will definitely adorn prison uniform, let him keep wearing Fendi Sweat suits for now.

sapientia:
Okupe has spoken

Talk is cheap, let him go & stand surety for his bail? Put your money where your mouth is, Okupe & Co are aware if this Anambra election plea fails, Mazi is finished, he has crossed the rubicon he will be gone for a longtime.

Instead of you people to start looking for another prophet you are still wailing on this one.

Tranquillity360:
[s][/s]Trash from impostor.

Facts that you call thrash? Well not too far from the truth because the subject matter Mazi Kanu ain’t nothing more than a Scumbag Oscar The Grouch Piece of Thrash.

Emergingnation:
Nmadi Kanu is happen than every thing in Nigeria..... Cry and wail it won't change that fact... Typical Fulani terrorist

Vid vid Biafra,

They miscalculated they thought Anambra election was a bargaining chip? Failed, now Mazi should be ready to spend some good time incarcerated.

Juliusmalema:
Yawns

Ipob should go and buy one portion of Sahara desert , name it Biafra and build it up.

Emergingnation:
Nnamdi Kanu in detention is very helpful to our independent struggling. more he is being detent the more global awareness is being created... Let your Jihadist government keep on detenting it for our benefits

I’m sure Supreme Leader is the number one topic of discussion @ the climate change in Glasgow? They are inquiring from President Buhari & his delegates, what happened to the coal mines in Eastern Nigeria?

Truth is golden

jlinkd78:
Truth is golden

Maybe more important for you people from Abia State, please go & disturb Ikpeazu.

Una no wabi the highway to where he is getting secure up?

Was there peace while he was free?
No.
More innocent people and also security officers lost their lives while he hid in London as a free man.

The first time he was freed, he broke all his bail conditions, became statewide terror
and eventually armed a terrorist group.

Fool me once parable applies here.

PDP is sponsor of IPOB and Bandits.

Conduct the Anambara election this week and IPOB won't have anything to fall back on till 2023 round of election. PDP already knows that if KANU is not released now, they are finished in the SE come 2023.

PDP the agent of the Albino coward terrorist has spoken

It's clear, PDP are the sponsor of UGM, bandits, ESN in Nigeria

Commentor:
Instead of you people to start looking for another prophet you are still wailing on this one.

This one don cast

Release a terrorist that took a lot to capture just for one state's election? You must be crazy man

Ala kpo gi okwu ebe ahu �
So what happens to the youngmen his dearest ugm angels killed.
They should release him so he can help you turn Igboland into your own terror ravaged Ne right?
Keep wishing, disgrace, reproach and shame is what you are destined for ��.
Op wey no get sense, useless product of quota system ��