joe54: Seun osewa this ipob and self determination don tire me over 15 threads per day. There are more important issues. The fugitive is in prison let's move on. Ipob don take over nairaland.
The above stream of thought remains the reason you are jobless.
Any Igbo person does not need to be a member of IPOB to want the disintegration of the shithole called Nigeria or support Nnamdi Kanu and IPOB for fanning the ember of Biafran flame.
A smart person should have glanced at reverse psychology. The Unknown Gum Men activities are very likely the state sponsored terrorism. Nigerian government led by Buhari and PAC is a rogue form of government.
fozapi: I was thinking of something now when I was going through a thread and the guy was telling us how the Fulani kids in the North enjoy the oil money that the tribes of the niger delta are supposed to be enjoying and we are all following the pib news of the North taking 30% and almost 50% and giving the tribes in the niger delta 3%
I was thinking now saying to myself men this is some real-life ish, Niger delta region is supposed to be the real Arab money of Nigeria where they would have skyscrapers, kids driving Ferrari in the streets of Owerri,Warri,Uyo,Yenagoa,Port Harcourt, clean streets.no potholes and an awesome coastline, it is a shame and a big shame and thinking about it makes me mad
We must remember when I wrote about the black man here https://www.biafranboys.org/nnamdi-kanu-black-man-is-mentally, the greedy black man have sold their people to be the Fulanis and I know soon just like they did to Alfred diete spiff, thee people would rise up and I am not mocking anyone I am just thinking about real and true life ish.. That place is supposed to be like Qatar or Dubai, traffic of the niger delta is supposed to be like those pictures below
Stupidity is one of the worst things to afflict a human being on earth. The so-called Niger Delta elites were treated like mad dog by the northern region political elites. The fools from Niger Delta were brainwashed to believe Igbo man and woman were their problems. Northern region political elites discovered the foolishness in the so-called Niger Delta people which likened to throwing a initial slightly salted meat to the dog as a diversionary bait and followed it up with mere bones. Any Igbo person who wants to be compatriots with these jackasses who parade themselves as "Niger Deltans" should be publicly shot.
FoolishBoy419: We already have a glimpse of what their country would be like. Those who oppose Ipob are having their genitals cut off, the supposed leader having nothing upstairs but insults, fake news, lies, and threats. It's a disaster waiting to happen
The Nigeria is backwater is because of insincerity or lack thereof. In addition, actual facts are readily available on the lips on most Nigeria. The dude did oppose IPOB but he was a snitch.
Kazim88: Fascism (/ˈfæʃɪzəm/) is a form of far-right, authoritarian movement characterized by dictatorial power, forcible suppression of opposition, and strong regimentation of society:
IPOB have become a fascist movement with followers who can't stomach a dissenting voice.
The moment you criticize Nnamdi Kanu or Biafra actuallization strategy even as an Igbo person or supporter, You get attacked. You will be called Sabo, Ewu Hausa, Ewu Yoruba, Efulefu etc.
This is dangerous from all point, It's myopia to think that every body most obey and not criticize Nnamdi Kanu, is he God, is he infallible?
He is not less or more important than any Igboman.
Because it's a known adage that Igbos have no King.
IPOB must go back to drawing board and win people over with democratic arguement and freedom to accept or reject.
Also they must jettison "Peaceful" agitation or protest philosophy that is a suicide mission in todays Nigeria.
Cyber bullying is not a strategy it's has no effect. E.g 2014, Buhari was powerless, handicapped unable to push his Fulani Agenda but through false promises he was voted in after 12 years of trying... thereby becoming the most powerful man in Nigeria with ample resources to push his agenda.
IPOB need a better strategy.
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The above trivial can only begin to make sense if the so-called dissenting voice comes from considerable numbers of IPOB members. If the dissenting voice comes for low life outsider, why should IPOB accomodate such idiocy?
RuudVanNisteroy: As a Yoruba boy who lived in the Niger Delta for 14 years, one thing that will strike you is the abject poverty across the six states. It is hard to believe since 1956 when oil was first found in Oloibiri,Bayelsa close to a thrillion dollars has been pumped from the ground with nothing to show for it. There is no discounting that massive corruption by former military administrators, local government chairmen,Governors,NDDC and Ministry of Niger Delta also had a major role to play in the poverty in the region.
However, when you go to Abuja and Lagos you see how some of the Niger Delta wealth used to breast feed the nation is been spent. The brewing of unrest in the Niger Delta during the OBJ and Yaradua regime can be traced to the One Million March organized to extend Abacha rule, that had men and women brought in from across the six states in the Niger Delta to Abuja and they saw how the money from their backyard was being spent extravagantly by people that had never seen oil or faced the consequences environmental degradation.
The Niger Delta has long been cheated,even the current Managing Director of Nigerian National Petroleum Company (NNPC) is from the northern part of the country. And to exerbate things further the recent PIB bill they had little input into is looking to shortchange them further and institutionalize this injustice through provision of between 2%-5% for oil producing communities and 30% fund for explorations of northern basins.
What the 30% provision for exploration of oil in the northern basins in the current Petroleum Industry Bill (PIB) means is that billions of dollars of Niger Delta funds will be spent and used to empower the North through overheads such as : royalties,catering for staff,northern contractors and their sub contractors,local and state taxes. Given the opaque nature in which the NNPC is operated there will also be billions of dollars of Niger Delta funds lost through corruption and diverted to buy properties locally and internationally as well as buy luxury vehicles.
Stupidity plays major role of poverty in south-south among abundance of crude oil.
Buckeyemedia1: They should be shot, because they don’t want to exodus with you, & your suicide mission to your misconstrued illusion called Biafra? Go on your own is it by force ldiko 1 Ipob Saddam Hussein, you want your parents to become subject to you & fellow truants that refused to go to school to get an education?
If education is the type received in the shithole called Nigeria, I shall remain uneducated. What manner of education forces a person who wants to decamp from a silly group to remain in the union?
Tokotaya: Nigerian lady narrates how police showed up at her door when she dialled 911 in error Photo of Microsecondnews (MSN) Reporter July 6, 2021 A Twitter user has narrated her experience on the efficiency of the security system in the United States of America where she is currently residing.
The Twitter user, Mofoluwaso, with the handle, @Im_Mide said she got a call from 911 after her phone mistakenly dialled the number and hung up.
She disclosed that even though she told the official that it was a mistake, the police showed up to make sure she is okay and stayed for some time before leaving. The Twitter user further revealed that this occurred between 4:45am -5:10am.
Most Nigerians are silly to even dream of the shithole called Nigeria in the likeness of US. What an insult. Presently, Nigerians will slaughter each other on a slightest provocation. I want the shithole called disintegrated.
aribisala0: Many Igbos support all the views Kanu has espoused especially in regard to hatred for the Yoruba. These same folk now want Nigerians to hand them 2023 presidency on a platter
Kanu did not spur the Yoruba to take up arms against Ndigbo and Biafra in 1967. It is complete waste of the forum space to inject Kanu into saga of hatred between Yoruba and Igbo. Honestly, any Igbo person who hungers for the presidency of shithole called Nigeria should be shot.
AtikuNetwork: Nobel laureate Prof Wole Soyinka has faulted calls for the formation of a Yoruba nation.
He said he preferred a united Nigeria, but under certain “rigorous conditions”.
Describing the country as a “basket case”, he said the political arrangement was not working.
In an interview with BBC Pidgin, Soyinka condemned the raid of the home of Yoruba activist, Sunday Igboho.
On secession calls, he said: “I don’t like the sound of a Yoruba nation any more than I like the sound of a Tiv nation or an Igbo nation.
“The reason is this: there are certain pejorative overtones, chauvinistic overtones attached to it. That’s not the issue.
“When you talk about a Yoruba nation, are we talking about the creation of a nation within Nigeria alone or across colonial borders into Cotonou, Benin Republic, where Yoruba exists, moving on to Togo and even Ivory Coast?
“So, when we talk about Yoruba nation, I have to know exactly what you mean. Do we even talk about the Yoruba in the Diaspora?
“So, it’s a question which is not for me to answer at this particular moment.”
Hinting at the need for restructuring, he faulted the existing revenue-sharing formula.
Soyinka said: “All I know is this: on a sentimental level, I will prefer us to mend and manage what we have, but under certain, rigorous conditions.
“The condition is decentralisation. We have to move away completely from this constitution which was imposed on us by an internal, neo-colonial force called the military.
“Now, if it had worked, if it were working, my position would have been different.
“My conditions are non-negotiable. We have to get away from the present political arrangement because they clearly are not working.
“They are creating internal overlords, they are creating a skewed, lopsided revenue-sharing system. They are robbing Peter to pay Paul.
“Right now, what we have is not a nation, but a basket-case, a real basket-case which is disintegrating all over the place, and all the contents are spilling over the basket.
“And all we are trying to do is to hold it there, grab it there, cover it there, cover that leak, and so on.
“A nation can’t continue like this. It’s obvious. And some people are more impatient than others.”
Soyinka, you should have known there is no political arrangement which a solve the case of Nigeria. You said you like "United Nigeria" hence the union of ethnic nation states in Nigeria. United is far cry from unity. Unity is felt and experience not mere coming together. The best approach for Nigeria is unconditional disintegration. If the Yoruba want to stick with shithole called Nigeria, I am fine with the decision but Ndigbo want out.
Reno Omokri if Africans are not foolish, it would have shown on the continent. A Tunisia girl won a tennis match, the foolish Europeans did not find it fit to call her African instead they refer to her as Arab.
JEWELofHELL: What would life be as a minority in Kanu’s Biafra? - Reno Omokri | Vanguard.
But my experience with Mr. Kanu’s supporters made me have a rethink. With the way they treat him as though he is infallible, could it not be more likely that there was nobody within the organisation bold enough to advise Mr. Kanu not to travel to Kenya, because to do so, or to counter him in any way, would have brought upon such a person weighty consequences.
On further introspection, I began to cast my mind to statements Nnamdi Kanu had made in his many broadcasts which I only watched just yesterday.
How did I miss these broadcasts? Have I been too focused on Buhari to the extent that I was blindsided? Is this the fellow I have been defending?
Recently, my perspective on Nigeria changed. I have never supported any separatist or secessionist agenda. However, I have supported and defended the right of any Nigerian to express himself and associate freely. It does not matter to me where such a person comes from.
When the Buhari administration moved against Ibrahim Zakzaky and the Shiites, I was the first person (not one of the first) to defend them. After defending them publicly myself, I called the then President of the Christian Association of Nigeria, and begged him to issue a statement calling for an end to the killings of Shiites. He told me that though it was an Islamic affair, nevertheless, because of his fondness for me, he would speak in support, and he did.
I have similarly championed the causes of oppressed persons or people from every part of Nigeria. As much as is humanly possible, I have refused to be partial in my advocacy.
In the last three years, I have visited 40 nations on my own dime and time, for the cause of #FreeLeahSharibu, seeking freedom for a Christian girl from Borno. I have not collected a dime from anyone and of anyone knows anyone who has given me a penny, then they should publicly expose me.
Before Nnamdi Kanu was arrested, I did not know who he was. I just defended his right to freedom of expression and association. Various Igbo leaders called me privately to thank me. It would be wrong to mention their names, because of the challenges of the moment.
When Kanu was rearrested, I called a British government official and got the facts. I was the first (not one of the first. The first) to reveal that he was arrested in Kenya, and not in The UK. After I released this information, the media ran with it.
Yesterday, a former Presidential candidate sent me a tape of Nnamdi Kanu dissolving the UK branch of IPOB and tongue lashing the members of IPOB UK. He told them to hand over IPOB money in their possession. He then said that he suspected that the British Secret service was running IPOB UK.
I was shocked and refused to believe what I heard, until this ex Presidential candidate from the South pointed me to an IPOB channel where this same audio was broadcast.
So I published it on my page. I did not add or edit or alter the voice. I released it as is.
Given that that broadcast was released earlier this year (I was told it was first broadcast in March if 2021, though I am not 100% sure) and Nnamdi Kanu was arrested so soon after (in June), I asked if that altercation could have led to Kanu being betrayed by his members in the UK.
The result was that various persons, who claimed to be members of Indigenous Peoples of Biafra descended on my page and insulted me, attacked me and accused me of collecting money from Buhari. (Would Buhari even give me money? If Buhari will give me anything, it is more likely to be a letter bomb).
They said Nnamdi Kanu can insult anyone he liked and I should leave him alone.
A certain Northerner, who has been on my page attacking me for what he had previously called my “love for the Igbo”, now asked a question. He said ‘so you people have forgotten when this man was fighting for you so soon’?
And so I went into deep thought.
If Nnamdi Kanu eventually gets Biafra and I am a minority in that Biafra, what would be my fate? Would I be able to express myself? Would I have the freedoms for which I myself have been fighting for Nnamdi Kanu to get for the last five years? Would I be able to hold sensitive positions?
I am not Yoruba, but because of me, these members of IPOB insulted the Yoruba (why do people always think I am Yoruba?). I was called ‘ewu Yoruba’. Somebody even threatened to kill me if I ever stepped into Onitsha (the same Onitsha where I donated money and raised millions for victims of the 2019 Onitsha Market Fire?).
These people in their hundreds descended on me with a consistent refrain, tthat Mazi Nnamdi Kanu is the supreme leader of the Igbos and he could insult his members if he chose and no one could question him.
And that prompted a paradigm shift in my consciousness. If you have been following the dailies, you would have read one or two stories planted by the Buhari administration in the papers of how they have been tracing Kanu and monitoring his movements for two years.
The stories claimed that they were able to get to him through members of the Eastern Security Network that they had captured. Then a few days ago, they released a video testimony of one captured ESN member, by name Emeoyiri Uzorma Benjamin, that has now gone viral, in which the young man claimed that Kanu had given them instructions to kill policemen and soldiers, as well as their fellow Igbos.
He sensationally claimed that Kanu instructed them to bury one of his lieutenants, Nwaokike Kayinayo Andy, AKA Ikonso with 2000 human heads. Even more sensationally, he alleged that Mr. Kanu gave directives to them to kill young girls, who they used for fetish charms.
Now, it is not possible to say it this fellow is telling the truth, or half truths or lies. However, from his testimony, or account of the inside workings of IPOB/ESN, and the broadcasts which I listened to, and which is also available on some IPOB social media accounts, we see that Nnamdi Kanu had almost total authority over IPOB.
All this time, I was thinking that, though Nnamdi Kanu showed extreme indiscretion by going to a country like Kenya, which is notorious for extrajudicially extraditing people to regimes seeking them (the Turkish government did exactly the same thing the Nigerian government did with Kanu to Selahaddin Gulen, a Turkish dissident that was captured by Turkey’s intelligence from Nairobi. In that instance, Kenya first denied complicity, then promised to investigate the event. It happened in 2016. Kenya is still ‘investigating’ that event), that he nevertheless must have been betrayed by someone in his organisation, who tipped the Nigerian intelligence agencies that Kanu was headed to Kenya.
But my experience with Mr. Kanu’s supporters made me have a rethink. With the way they treat him as though he is infallible, could it not be more likely that there was nobody within the organisation bold enough to advise Mr. Kanu not to travel to Kenya, because to do so, or to counter him in any way, would have brought upon such a person weighty consequences.
And then I began thinking about the ‘dot in a circle’ statement by General Buhari. I had criticised Buhari for making that comment. It is most irresponsible of him to have described the Igbo as such. It showed his malevolent mindset towards some citizens of his own country, and he should apologise.
However, on further introspection, I began to cast my mind to statements Nnamdi Kanu had made in his many broadcasts which I only watched just yesterday.[/color]
[b]He unacceptably insults Black people as being less intelligent than other races (how can a Black person say such things? Is that not self hatred?). He attacks Yoruba churches, pastors and media (what is a Yoruba church? Honestly, I had never heard of a Yoruba church until I heard that word from Kanu. I thought all churches belonged to God through Christ).
You can imagine if you are Yoruba and sympathetic to the plight of the Igbo, and you listen to all the bile from Kanu about your ethnic nationality, how would you look if you continue to defend him to your kinsmen?
Then you listen to some of the even more outrageous things he has said about Northerners (Igbos, your enemy is Buhari. Your enemies are not the Hausa or Fulani. Don’t mix up the two). I cannot even repeat them here.
Looking back to those broadcasts, it looks to me that it is Nnamdi Kanu himself who made IPOB (not the Igbos as Buhari claims) a dot in a circle.
He made no attempts to be persuasive. He did not even try to win hearts. He made no pretence of anything but contempt to anyone who was not part of his Biafra. Even though I had always thought that Odili, Amaechi and Wike and their people in Rivers state are Igbos, I now understand, but do not agree with Wike’s claims that they are not Igbos.
Who would want to be a minority in a country ruled by Kanu? Tufiakwa! You speak your mind and you may be shot on the spot!
To be honest, I had never listened to these broadcasts by Nnamdi Kanu until they were brought to my attention by this Southern Presidential candidate. I was clueless about their existence. In fact, I felt a bit naive. I felt like a fool!
Anyone who has been following me for the last six years would have known how much of my time and money I have devoted to defending, advocating for and promoting the cause of the Igbos.
However, having watched for the first time these videos where Nnamdi Kanu called Black people wicked (I am Black, but I don’t think I am wicked), and where he described Igbos who refuse to support IPOB as evil, I am flummoxed!
However, the one that shocked me the most was his statement that (and this is an exact quote), “If you are attending a Yoruba church, you should be ashamed of yourself. Anyone who attends a church headed by a Yoruba pastor is an idiot. A complete fool. An slowpoke. I have no time for them. They are worse than Boko Haram. They are very, very foolish. If your pastor is Yoruba, you are not fit to be a human being.”
And the funniest thing is that >b]the pastor who provoked him into making that statement is from Auchi. He is not even Yoruba. No wonder they think I am Yoruba.[/b] To these lot, anyone Southerner West of the Niger is Yoruba. They have a majority mindset that is not minority friendly AT ALL.
Even more disturbing is that this Auchi pastor, who Nnamdi Kanu calls Yoruba, and used to generalise all Yoruba pastors, was summoned by DSS in December of 2016, and asked to explain why he did a video calling for Kanu’s release. Who fights those who fights for them?
How did I miss these broadcasts? Have I been too focused on Buhari to the extent that I was blindsided? Is this the fellow I have been defending?
I am a minority. My late father was a minority. He went to Sokoto as a Youth Corp Member in 1975, and became Nigeria’s youngest Director of Public Prosecution and Nigeria’s youngest judge (at the time), and was elevated to the Court of Appeal, all from old Sokoto. Would that be possible in Kanu’s Biafra?
And when he was interviewed in 2020 by Dr. Damages (I did not even know until the same Southern former Presidential candidate sent me the video), and given an opportunity to denounce his previous statements against the Yoruba, Nnamdi Kanu doubled down on it and said as follows:
“Most of the difficulties we have been having have always come from these Yoruba pastors.”
Then he went on to say in that same 2020 interview as follows:
“Yoruba Pentecostalism is the reason why Fulanis are invading us today.”
Where is the connection between Pentecostal churches and killer herdsmen?
I was stunned. This video was recorded last year. How come I never saw it. I checked on YouTube and only 27,000 people had seen it.
How can I be against Isa Pantami for saying “We are all happy whenever unbelievers are being killed” and then tolerate these statements from Nnamdi Kanu?
If I do, it will make me a hypocrite. And while I mistakenly may sometimes be hypocritical, I will not be deliberately hypocritical.
Everything I have said here is the truth. It is on video and audio. If you do not like what I have written, then jejely unfollow me. We are obviously not on the same wavelength and I am not about to change in order to make you like me.
Reno Omokri
Gospeller. Deep Thinker. #1 Bestselling author of Facts Versus Fiction: The True Story of the Jonathan Years. Avid traveller. Hollywood Magazine Film Festival Humanitarian of the Year, 2019.
There are too many unintelligible craps which littered above junk. For goodness sake, no human being is either "White or Black". If a person cannot intellectualize this concept, the person should not pass as a human being. If you claim to be "Black", you are as goofy as Nnamdi Kanu. I could pardon Kanu on his rhethoric because of the situation he finds himself but you. Kanu is an assumed freedom fighter and choice of words has no diplomacy on his side.
Kagd10: Osu liar, the whites were in Nigeria as at 1914. Heck, amalgamation of Nigeria was in 1914. I already backed my point with facts! Go and knack your osu head on a rock if you're that pained!
Abobaku liar, I have told you this discussion is not meant for intellectual midgets such as you. Again it is an act of idiocy to classify human beings as "White or Black". Nigeria was not amalgamated in1914. The amalgamation was between Southern and Northern Protectorates. The question you should ask yourself is when was the amalgamated protectorates call Nigeria.
Juliusmalema: What Would Life Be Like As a Minority in Kanu’s Biafra?
Recently, my perspective on Nigeria changed. I have never supported any separatist or secessionist agenda. However, I have supported and defended the right of any Nigerian to express himself and associate freely. It does not matter to me where such a person comes from. When the Buhari administration moved against Ibrahim Zakzaky and the Shiites, I was the first person (not one of the first) to defend them. After defending them publicly myself, I called the then President of the Christian Association of Nigeria, and begged him to issue a statement calling for an end to the killings of Shiites. He told me that though it was an Islamic affair, nevertheless, because of his fondness for me, he would speak in support, and he did. I have similarly championed the causes of oppressed persons or people from every part of Nigeria. As much as is humanly possible, I have refused to be partial in my advocacy. In the last three years, I have visited 40 nations on my own dime and time, for the cause of # FreeLeahSharibu , seeking freedom for a Christian girl from Borno. I have not collected a dime from anyone and if anyone knows anyone who has given me a penny, then they should publicly expose me. Before Nnamdi Kanu was arrested, I did not know who he was. I just defended his right to freedom of expression and association. Various Igbo leaders called me privately to thank me. It would be wrong to mention their names, because of the challenges of the moment.
When Kanu was rearrested, I called a British government official and got the facts. I was the first (not one of the first. The first) to reveal that he was arrested in Kenya, and not in The UK. After I released this information, the media ran with it. Yesterday, a former Presidential candidate sent me a tape of Nnamdi Kanu dissolving the UK branch of IPOB and tongue lashing the members of IPOB UK. He told them to hand over IPOB money in their possession. He then said that he suspected that the British Secret service was running IPOB UK. I was shocked and refused to believe what I heard, until this ex Presidential candidate from the South pointed me to an IPOB channel where this same audio was broadcast. So I published it on my page. I did not add or edit or alter the voice. I released it as is. Given that that broadcast was released earlier this year (I was told it was first broadcast in March of 2021, though I am not 100% sure) and Nnamdi Kanu was arrested so soon after (in June), I asked if that altercation could have led to Kanu being betrayed by his members in the UK.
The result was that various persons, who claimed to be members of Indigenous Peoples of Biafra descended on my page and insulted me, attacked me and accused me of collecting money from Buhari. (Would Buhari even give me money? If Buhari will give me anything, it is more likely to be a letter bomb). They said Nnamdi Kanu can insult anyone he liked and I should leave him alone. A certain Northerner, who has been on my page attacking me for what he had previously called my “love for the Igbo”, now asked a question. He said ‘so you people have forgotten when this man was fighting for you so soon’?
And so I went into deep thought. If Nnamdi Kanu eventually gets Biafra and I am a minority in that Biafra, what would be my fate? Would I be able to express myself? Would I have the freedoms for which I myself have been fighting for Nnamdi Kanu to get for the last five years? Would I be able to hold sensitive positions? I am not Yoruba, but because of me, these members of IPOB insulted the Yoruba (why do people always think I am Yoruba?). I was called ‘ewu Yoruba’. Somebody even threatened to kill me if I ever stepped into Onitsha (the same Onitsha where I donated money and raised millions for victims of the 2019 Onitsha Market Fire?). These people in their hundreds descended on me with a consistent refrain, that Mazi Nnamdi Kanu is the supreme leader of the Igbos and he could insult his members if he chose and no one could question him. And that prompted a paradigm shift in my consciousness. If you have been following the dailies, you would have read one or two stories planted by the Buhari administration in the papers of how they have been tracing Kanu and monitoring his movements for two years.
The stories claimed that they were able to get to him through members of the Eastern Security Network that they had captured. Then a few days ago, they released a video testimony of one captured ESN member, by name Emeoyiri Uzorma Benjamin, that has now gone viral, in which the young man claimed that Kanu had given them instructions to kill policemen and soldiers, as well as their fellow Igbos. He sensationally claimed that Kanu instructed them to bury one of his lieutenants, Nwaokike Kayinayo Andy, AKA Ikonso with 2000 human heads. Even more sensationally, he alleged that Mr. Kanu gave directives to them to kill young girls, who they used for fetish charms. Now, it is not possible to say if this fellow is telling the truth, or half truths or lies. However, from his testimony, or account of the inside workings of IPOB/ESN, and the broadcasts which I listened to, and which is also available on some IPOB social media accounts, we see that Nnamdi Kanu had almost total authority over IPOB. All this time, I was thinking that, though Nnamdi Kanu showed extreme indiscretion by going to a country like Kenya, which is notorious for extrajudicially extraditing people to regimes seeking them (the Turkish government did exactly the same thing the Nigerian government did with Kanu to Selahaddin Gulen, a Turkish dissident that was captured by Turkey’s intelligence from Nairobi. In that instance, Kenya first denied complicity, then promised to investigate the event. It happened in 2016. Kenya is still ‘investigating’ that event), that he nevertheless must have been betrayed by someone in his organisation, who tipped the Nigerian intelligence agencies that Kanu was headed to Kenya.
But my experience with Mr. Kanu’s supporters made me have a rethink. With the way they treat him as though he is infallible, could it not be more likely that there was nobody within the organisation bold enough to advise Mr. Kanu not to travel to Kenya, because to do so, or to counter him in any way, would have brought upon such a person weighty consequences.
And then I began thinking about the ‘dot in a circle’ statement by General Buhari. I had criticised Buhari for making that comment. It is most irresponsible of him to have described the Igbo as such. It showed his malevolent mindset towards some citizens of his own country, and he should apologise. However, on further introspection, I began to cast my mind to statements Nnamdi Kanu had made in his many broadcasts which I only watched just yesterday.
He unacceptably insults Black people as being less intelligent than other races (how can a Black person say such things? Is that not self hatred?). He attacks Yoruba churches, pastors and media (what is a Yoruba church? Honestly, I had never heard of a Yoruba church until I heard that word from Kanu. I thought all churches belonged to God through Christ). You can imagine if you are Yoruba and sympathetic to the plight of the Igbo, and you listen to all the bile from Kanu about your ethnic nationality, how would you look if you continue to defend him to your kinsmen? Then you listen to some of the even more outrageous things he has said about Northerners (Igbos, your enemy is Buhari. Your enemies are not the Hausa or Fulani. Don’t mix up the two). I cannot even repeat them here. Looking back to those broadcasts, it looks to me that it is Nnamdi Kanu himself who made IPOB (not the Igbos as Buhari claims) a dot in a circle.
He made no attempts to be persuasive. He did not even try to win hearts. He made no pretence of anything but contempt to anyone who was not part of his Biafra. Even though I had always thought that Odili, Amaechi and Wike and their people in Rivers state are Igbos, I now understand, but do not agree with Wike’s claims that they are not Igbos. Who would want to be a minority in a country ruled by Kanu? Tufiakwa! You speak your mind and you may be shot on the spot! To be honest, I had never listened to these broadcasts by Nnamdi Kanu until they were brought to my attention by this Southern Presidential candidate. I was clueless about their existence. In fact, I felt a bit naive. I felt like a fool! Anyone who has been following me for the last six years would have known how much of my time and money I have devoted to defending, advocating for and promoting the cause of the Igbos. However, having watched for the first time these videos where Nnamdi Kanu called Black people wicked (I am Black, but I don’t think I am wicked), and where he described Igbos who refuse to support IPOB as evil, I am flummoxed! However, the one that shocked me the most was his statement that (and this is an exact quote), “If you are attending a Yoruba church, you should be ashamed of yourself. Anyone who attends a church headed by a Yoruba pastor is an idiot. A complete fool. An slowpoke. I have no time for them. They are worse than Boko Haram. They are very, very foolish. If your pastor is Yoruba, you are not fit to be a human being.” And the funniest thing is that the pastor who provoked him into making that statement is from Auchi. He is not even Yoruba. No wonder they think I am Yoruba. To these lot, any Southerner West of the Niger is Yoruba. They have a majority mindset that is not minority friendly AT ALL. Even more disturbing is that this Auchi pastor, who Nnamdi Kanu calls Yoruba, and used to generalise all Yoruba pastors, was summoned by DSS in December of 2016, and asked to explain why he did a video calling for Kanu’s release. Who fights those who fight for them? How did I miss these broadcasts? Have I been too focused on Buhari to the extent that I was blindsided? Is this the fellow I have been defending? I am a minority. My late father was a minority. He went to Sokoto as a Youth Corp Member in 1975, and became Nigeria’s youngest Director of Public Prosecution and Nigeria’s youngest judge (at the time), and was elevated to the Court of Appeal, all from old Sokoto. Would that be possible in Kanu’s Biafra? And when he was interviewed in 2020 by Dr. Damages (I did not even know until the same Southern former Presidential candidate sent me the video), and given an opportunity to denounce his previous statements against the Yoruba, Nnamdi Kanu doubled down on it and said as follows: “Most of the difficulties we have been having have always come from these Yoruba pastors.” Then he went on to say in that same 2020 interview as follows:
“Yoruba Pentecostalism is the reason why Fulanis are invading us today.” Where is the connection between Pentecostal churches and killer herdsmen? I was stunned. This video was recorded last year. How come I never saw it. I checked on YouTube and only 27,000 people had seen it. How can I be against Isa Pantami for saying “We are all happy whenever unbelievers are being killed” and then tolerate these statements from Nnamdi Kanu? If I do, it will make me a hypocrite. And while I mistakenly may sometimes be hypocritical, I will not be deliberately hypocritical. Everything I have said here is the truth. It is on video and audio. If you do not like what I have written, then jejely unfollow me. We are obviously not on the same wavelength and I am not about to change in order to make you like me.
Reno Omokri, I cannot say you have disappointed me however a person of your caliber should know this century is an era of social media and readily electronic gadgets which make print media readily available to any jackass on the street. I am surprise you paid mind to ill-educated nitwits who throng social media to spew incoherent rants. The actualized Biafra shell not be Kanu's Biafra as you have wrongly insinuated. There shall be no instances of minority tags unless you decided to embrace the status of minority in Biafra.
Buckeyemedia1: Yesterday, Mexico just seized the largest crude oil deposit discovered by a private firm, & handed it over to Pemex state owned controlled oil firm, all these shouting in Nigeria is just based on ignorance.
Who is the ignorance character in this discussion? I suggest you stop citing issues you know little about as evidentiary support to your silly argument.
Ode, honestly you do not belong to this discussion. When WWI ended in 1919, Shell D'Arcy had not entered the Southern Protectorate. I suggest you spend more time on the real books than fooling around on Interent and reading craps posted by brains in the same caliber as you, dirty abobaku. How did OSU find its way into this discussion?
gidgiddy: You didnt do your maths well. You need two third majority vote, or 67%, to pass a vote on referendum
If the NW and and NE have 39 then that means they have almost 40% of the vote
It would be a waste of time to move a motion on referendum since it has no chance of passing
Not only his math is very simplistic in outlook, he failed to incorporate political party doctrine. Most senators from SOUTH and NORTH CENTRAL are members of opposition parties.
UtuokeAlcoholic: You too now admits that abaribe is a tribalist bigot.
Is there anything wrong with being tribally biased? The dude from Katsina State nemed Muhammadu Buhari has been as tribal in its worse case yet Nigeria remains one shithole.
Kagd10: Ode, it didn't start because the white explorers had to leave for the world war 2! When they came back (new explorers btw), it was done at olobiri! Sink that into your Uselesss skull. Btw, Check the names of the oil wells in Ondo state, you would realise they're Yoruba communities! Ode.
Ode with loudmouth, WWII ended in 1945. The crude oil exploration resumed in 1948. You are not only Yoruba peep who seemed heavenly confused with cardinal dates on calendar. The lack of simple reading of calendar should have "Oluwole" to be blamed. I should have educated Ode on the crude oil exploration in the cesspit called Nigeria but decided otherwise. It goes with the saying birth ode and comb ode, ode is still Ode. It is liken to the pig.
Human rights lawyer, Femi Falana, SAN, on Monday, lambasted the Department of State Services over what he described as a “nocturnal coup” carried out on the Ibadan residence of Yoruba activist, Sunday Adeyemo also known as Sunday Igboho, last Thursday.
“There is no law in Nigeria that allows you to arrest somebody in the dead of the night when you are not planning a coup and you are not an armed robber,” Falana said on Channels Television’s ‘Politics Today’ programme monitored by The PUNCH.
The PUNCH had earlier reported that the DSS on Thursday morning around 1am invaded the residence of Igboho in a Gestapo style. Though Igboho had escaped the raid, his house and cars were riddled with bullets while bloodstains splattered over the floors of the house. The DSS also said it killed two of his associates in a gun duel. Thirteen of Igboho’s guards and close associates were later paraded in Abuja on Thursday evening.
The secret police had since declared Igboho wanted. The activist is being accused of stockpiling weapons to allegedly destabilise the country under the guise of agitation for Yoruba nation but he has since denied the allegation, saying he protects himself with charms and not weapons.
Speaking on the television programme, Falana described as late, the decision of the Southern governors in Lagos State on Monday that security agencies must notify them as the chief security officer of their states before they carry out any operation within their domain.
“It is a decision that is coming rather late. Governors are chief security officers of their states in line with the constitution. Each state has a security council and the governor is the chairman,” he said.
Continuing, the senior advocate said, “You can’t have a situation where nocturnal arrests are made in a state as if you are planning a coup. Take Ibadan for instance, the invasion of the home of Igboho happened in the night and for all-day, everybody was wondering who did and that seven people were killed. People were arrested and abducted at 2am, the governor of the state wasn’t aware. So, everybody was trying to find out, calling security agencies, only for the State Security Service to issue a very provocative statement after almost 12 hours to say, ‘We did it, we killed two people, we raided a house’. Somebody attempted to evade arrest and you killed two people? The governor of the state wasn’t aware?
“In these days of kidnappings, anybody can come to your house in the night and arrest you. And these are guys who don’t wear uniforms.”
“There is no provision, unless a crime is being committed in the night; you cannot go there and arrest. In this case, you are required by law to bring a search warrant. In this case, there was no search warrant, nobody took an inventory.
“Now, Sunday Adeyemo has said I didn’t have any gun in my house. Yet, the SSS paraded guns and other ammunition. All the controversies would have been unnecessary if the SSS had behaved like a modern, civilised agency.
“These are very dangerous legacies of military dictatorship in our country,” he stated.
If the raid did not uncover the alleged stockpile of weapons needed to destroy the shithole called Nigeria, not only the DSS should be disbanded, Buhari and Osinbanjo should resign immediately. If they fail to do so, Nigeria should be rescued from them.
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