The IPOB leader, who said this during a visit by his younger brother, Prince Emmanuel Kanu, popularly known as Kanunta, insisted that despite his “unjust and unfair incarceration” the demand for a referendum remained his goal, “unless those opposing the wholesome restructuring of the country repent.”

Nnamdi Kanu, the detained leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), has said that he is not against any genuine restructuring of Nigeria in line with the provision of the 1963 Constitution.

The IPOB leader, who said this during a visit by his younger brother, Prince Emmanuel Kanu, popularly known as Kanunta, insisted that despite his “unjust and unfair incarceration” the demand for a referendum remained his goal, “unless those opposing the wholesome restructuring of the country repent.”


Emmanuel spoke to newsmen after meeting with the IPOB leader in detention at the Abuja headquarters of the Department of State Services (DSS) where he has been held since June 2021 when he was arrested and forcefully returned to Nigeria.

According to Vanguard, the younger brother to Kanu quoted the IPOB leader as saying, “We are not averse to the genuine restructuring of the country. We know that the country cannot grow or make progress under the current unworking unitary structure. The facts are clear for all to see.

“Our position remains the same as our submission in the presence of Prof. Ben Nwabueze, and Evangelist Elliot Ugochukwu-Uko on 30th August 2017 at the meeting with the South East Governors in Enugu. We have no reason to add or subtract from our position six years ago.


“We reiterate that we are not opposed to a consensual but wholesome restructuring of the country along the 1963 constitution.”
According to the IPOB leader, those who disrupted an earlier attempt by the Nigerian government in 2017 to reach a truce with him are responsible for the current insecurity in the South East.

He said that “Those who disrupted the 2017 peace process, only engineered and activated the unpleasant experiences of the past three years. Had they allowed the second meeting of September 15th 2017 to hold, meaningful outcome would have been long achieved.

“The unprovoked invasion of my family homestead on September 14th 2017, which led to the untimely death of dozens of citizens and inspired the demise of my parents, created the unsavoury atmosphere that engulfed the region moving forward.”

Kanu, who reportedly gave conditions for true reconciliation, insisted that the grossly marginalised South East region of Nigeria and the entire “Biafra” land should be rebuilt and brought to equity with other regions of the country.

Kanu, who specifically demanded the “Establishment of long denied critical infrastructure in our region, commercial seaport, international airport with cargo wing, rail services and other deliberately denied infrastructure.”

He noted that the growing agitation for the restoration of Biafra was borne out of the deep-seated injustice against “Biafrans” by the Nigerian state.

According to him, “Those determined on riding fellow citizens as donkeys, should understand that their refusal to treat every region fairly, is at the root of our agitation for justice and equality.

“The people of the region desire to be treated fairly and treated right. We stand by our demand for justice, equity and fairness for all. This is our position.”

He added, “My position has remained unchanged for very many years, regardless of my unjust and unfair incarceration. Our demand for a referendum to determine whether our people will choose to remain in the country that has so unkindly treated us for decades, remains our goal, unless those opposing the wholesome restructuring of the country repent.

“We are resolute because the oppressor leaves us no choice. Since the 1980s and the 1990s, every plea to return the country to the 1963 constitution, has sadly fallen on deaf ears, leaving us no choice than to find any avenue that would guarantee a safe future and better tomorrow for our unborn grandchildren. We have no regrets whatsoever articulating a better future for our progeny.

“Being mocked consistently over our earlier demand for an early return to true federalism and devolution of powers, we saw we had no other choice than to work towards a referendum to determine our future. Our decision and preference for our own country where our children will be fairly treated is as a result of the unacceptable unabating mistreatment since 1966.

“First the horrendous pogroms, then the bitter war, the deliberate dissempowerment after the war (the £20 offer), the scorched earth policy and war of attrition viciously visited on our region ever since.

“The deliberate denial of critical federal government-driven basic infrastructure such as a functional commercial seaport, railways, international Airport with cargo wing, dry port (container terminal), greater electricity generation, export free zone and East/West railway and road network that will help our people feel like being truly part of the country, confirms our second class status, which we reject.

“The unkind marginalisation we have suffered as a region since 1970, is only possible because of the centralised structure enabled by the unitary 1999 constitution.

“We remain committed to our demand for a referendum as long as those totally opposed to the restructuring of the country along the lines of true federalism and power devolution continue to resist the cry for a new fair, just and equitable constitution along the lines of the 1963 Republican constitution.

“We will be betraying our people and selling away their future, if we continue to wobble along in this unhelpful 1999 unitary constitution designed and written and given by unelected soldiers.

“I led marches in the UK pleading for a consensual restructuring of the country via a constitutional conference and the enthronement of a new people’s constitution all through the 1990s.

“We were mocked and ridiculed consistently by a small clique of compatriots, who claimed they were born to rule. Their stiff opposition to a peaceful restructuring of the country, made our agitation inevitable. They are simply telling us ‘to go to hell’ and ‘do our worst.’

“At the meeting with the South East Governors on 30th August 2017, I pleaded with the Governors to plead with Mr President to begin the early restructuring of the country along the lines of true federalism and devolution of power back to the 1963 constitution.

“I also pleaded for affirmative action to expedite immediate construction of the earlier mentioned deliberately denied infrastructure in our region. The response was a vicious military attack to violently eliminate me on the 14th of September 2017, a day before the follow up concluding meeting.”

https://saharareporters.com/2024/01/22/despite-my-unjust-detention-demand-biafran-referendum-remains-my-goal-nnamdi-kanu

Kanu is indeed persistent and has a never-give-up attitude.
I must commend him for that. Standing one's ground despite being subjected to all forms of torture and in a dungeon is a rare form of bravery.

Referendum is a goal!

Why should anyone that stands for freedom, liberty and justice be afraid of allowing a people voice their opinion on a important issue such as this? Other groups that have used referendum to determine their destiny, do they have two heads?

You despise a people, yet are against the very thing that could help you get rid of them! What kind of deceit and hypocrisy is that?

The only man, I can die for.

Kingosytex:
Kanu is indeed persistent and has a never giving up attitude.
I must commend him for that. Standing one's ground despite being subjected to all forms of torture and in a dungeon is a rare form of bravery.

The man stubborn die! And this is the major reason he's hated and feared in equal measure by those intent on sustaining the status-quo! Forget the diversionary 'excuse' they will give you that Mazi Kanu was 'spreading hate'! That's just them hunting for reasons to 'justify' their state-sponsored injustice and criminality!

Ohamadike, ever unwavering

Your enemies are watching Nigeria get worse every day but think you are the problem

They will eventually watch Nigeria disintegrate, and that peaceful democratic referendum you were asking for will suddenly seem to good to be true

Odogwu!
The bravest of them all!

Kingosytex:
Kanu is indeed persistent and has a never giving up attitude.
I must commend him for that. Standing one's ground despite being subjected to all forms of torture and in a dungeon is a rare form of bravery.

Can’t you people ever show you are principled men instead of showing you are slavish worshippers of others?

Kanu had done a climbdown from “Biafra or death” to now been open to “genuine restructuring” yet you must stil lick his two-faced ass.

Anyway, where is Gidgiddy and all the “give us Biafra or nothing” bingos now Kanu , the master whose feet you lick daily, is today throwing you all under the bus, just to gain freedom from “Zoo” cage?

Kanu is now saying he is open to abandoning the Biafra struggle for the restructuring Yorubas have always advocated as most workable. What do you Biafra bingos say about your Ohamadike now?

Hope you know the 1963 constitution Kanu is now suddenly and mysteriously a fan of is essentially linked to regions having autonomy to lead themselves?


You have all followed one man’s Biafra lunacy to cause so many death and upheaval only to come back to what Yorubas suggested was the best way forward from the beginning. You lot are jokers

Nnamdi Kanu, the detained leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), has said that he is not against any genuine restructuring of Nigeria in line with the provision of the 1963 Constitution.

Okay

TopBanter:


Can’t you people ever show you are principled men instead of showing you are slavish worshippers of others?

Kanu had done a climbdown from “Biafra or death” to now been open to “genuine restructuring” yet you must stil lick his two-faced ass.

Anyway, where is Gidgiddy and all the “give us Biafra or nothing” bingos now Kanu , the master whose feet you lick daily, is today throwing you all under the bus, just to gain freedom from “Zoo” cage?

Kanu is now saying he is open to abandoning the Biafra struggle for the restructuring Yorubas have always advocated as most workable. What do you Biafra bingos say about your Ohamadike now?

Hope you know the 1963 constitution Kanu is now suddenly and mysteriously a fan of is essentially linked to regions having autonomy to lead themselves?


You have all followed one man’s Biafra lunacy to cause so many death and upheaval only to come back to what Yorubas suggested was the best way forward from the beginning. You lot are jokers

Just as your Monika implies, you only engage in Topbanters

Honestly, your foolery is legendary

-We are solidly behind you, Mazi Nnamdi Kanu.

-Your prophecy that Nigeria will become Somalia is already happening sooner than we thought.

-Long Live Biafra! Long Live Nnamdi Kanu!! Isee!!!

🥵

TopBanter:


Can’t you people ever show you are principled men instead of showing you are slavish worshippers of others?

Kanu had done a climbdown from “Biafra or death” to now been open to “genuine restructuring” yet you must stil lick his two-faced ass.

Anyway, where is Gidgiddy and all the “give us Biafra or nothing” bingos now Kanu , the master whose feet you lick daily, is today throwing you all under the bus, just to gain freedom from “Zoo” cage?

Kanu is now saying he is open to abandoning the Biafra struggle for the restructuring Yorubas have always advocated as most workable. What do you Biafra bingos say about your Ohamadike now?

Hope you know the 1963 constitution Kanu is now suddenly and mysteriously a fan of is essentially linked to regions having autonomy to lead themselves?


You have all followed one man’s Biafra lunacy to cause so many death and upheaval only to come back to what Yorubas suggested was the best way forward from the beginning. You lot are jokers

Dude, face the evil despot Buhari with your rambling angst! Everyone following this issue knows there was a window of opportunity to end the IPOB agitation for secession! But owing to pride, wickedness, and a pharaoic belief that the ruling Fulani hegemony and the Nigerian state they control cannot be seen to be giving in to 'nyamuree slave' demands, Buhari chose the option of sending his bloodthirsty soldiers storming into Afaraukwu to murder Mazi Kanu.....even when he was due to return back to court in a few days time!

Armaggedon:
Odogwu!
The bravest of them all!

lol. Go back to school. Your Odogu “bravest of them all”, to escape “Zoo” cage, has done an embrassing and cowardly climbdown from uncompromisingly demanding Biafra to now accepting what the rest of us, most notably Yorubas, have always advocated and he rejected.

I.e a return to the 1963 constitution that propose all regions remain under Nigeria but control their resources and pay a tax toward the federal Centre.

This is why Kanu can tell you Buhari is dead and replaced by Jubrin from Sudan only for you lot to spread the crazy talk wildly and zealously.

Even when the world see your madmen are flawed and failing, and will lead you to doom, you keep fallowing and worshipping them blindly.

Get your superior to explain what Kanu has just done as I am sure many analysts, from Omokri to Kperoogi etal, will soon weigh in with their analyses that will subtly damn Igbos for been such unquestioning followers of lunatics playing ludo with your brains.

What Kanu has done is taking you from A with a promise to get you to Z only to return you to the same spot (No Biafra and a remain in Nigeria) after avoidable bloodshed. Exactly what Ojukwu and Nzeogwu did.

Whoever tells you that you communicate effectively when you write jargons constantly is a big fool.

You write foolishly...and it's not being insulting.

Guess you are a product of free education. That is why you aren't articulate in your write-ups.

Am sorry for being direct..you write stupidly.

TopBanter:


Can’t you people ever show you are principled men instead of showing you are slavish worshippers of others?

Kanu had done a climbdown from “Biafra or death” to now been open to “genuine restructuring” yet you must stil lick his two-faced ass.

Anyway, where is Gidgiddy and all the “give us Biafra or nothing” bingos now Kanu , the master whose feet you lick daily, is today throwing you all under the bus, just to gain freedom from “Zoo” cage?

Kanu is now saying he is open to abandoning the Biafra struggle for the restructuring Yorubas have always advocated as most workable. What do you Biafra bingos say about your Ohamadike now?

Hope you know the 1963 constitution Kanu is now suddenly and mysteriously a fan of is essentially linked to regions having autonomy to lead themselves?


You have all followed one man’s Biafra lunacy to cause so many death and upheaval only to come back to what Yorubas suggested was the best way forward from the beginning. You lot are jokers

Why do politicians become jittery when someone questions the faulty foundation of Nigeria?

TopBanter:


lol. Go back to school. Your Odogu “bravest of them all”, to escape “Zoo” cage, has done an embrassing and cowardly climbdown from uncompromisingly demanding Biafra to now accepting what the rest of us, most notably Yorubas, have always advocated and he rejected.

I.e a return to the 1963 constitution that propose all regions remain under Nigeria but control their resources and pay a tax toward the federal Centre.

This is why Kanu can tell you Buhari is dead and replaced by Jubrin from Sudan only for you lot to spread the crazy talk wildly and zealously.

Even when the world see your madmen are flawed and failing, and will lead you to doom, you keep fallowing and worshipping them blindly.

Get your superior to explain what Kanu has just done as I am sure many analysts, from Omokri to Kperoogi etal, will soon weigh in with their analyses that will subtly damn Igbos for been such unquestioning followers of lunatics playing ludo with your brains.

What Kanu has done is taking you from A with a promise to get you to Z only to return you to the same spot (No Biafra and a remain in Nigeria) after avoidable bloodshed. Exactly what Ojukwu and Nzeogwu did.

you won't understand his language.

PROUDIGBO:
Referendum is a goal!

Why should anyone that stands for freedom, liberty and justice be afraid of allowing a people voice their opinion on a important issue such as this? Other groups that have used referendum to determine their destiny, do they have two heads?

You despise a people, yet are against the very thing that could help you get rid of them! What kind of deceit and hypocrisy is that?

You want referendum, but you all voted massively for peter obi and the labour party in the presidential election... Dey play

The incarceration of Kanu is not an unjust one.

This man has guts. Without mincing words.

This man has endured what other so-called activists and Freedom fighters can't endure.

That is why his following is massive, even internationally.

It's obvious his incarceration is politically motivated. Imagine releasing certified Killers, but you detain a man that speaks with his mouth?

NIGERIA is a Joke.

As for IPOB members...

YOU NEED A CRACK SQUAD THAT WILL ELIMINATE PEOPLE THAT UNDERMINE YOUR ACTIVITIES. ANY POLITICAN THAT KILLS ANY IGBO SHOULD ALSO HAVE TEARS IN HIS COMPOUND. NO NEED TO PACIFY IDIOTS.

GIVE THEM THE MOSSAD TREATMENT. LET THEM KNOW THAT PAINS AND SORROW CAN BE RETURNED EQUALLY.

PROUDIGBO:


Dude, face the evil despot Buhari with your rambling angst! Everyone following this issue knows there was a window of opportunity to end the IPOB agitation for secession! But owing to pride, wickedness, and a pharaoic belief that the ruling Fulani hegemony and the Nigerian state they control cannot be seen to be giving in to 'nyamuree slave' demands, Buhari chose the option of sending his bloodthirsty soldiers storming into Afaraukwu to murder Mazi Kanu.....even when he was due to return back to court in a few days time!

lol. I am not the one to convince of anything as I am way above you and your band of hero-worshippers in intellect. I know what I know.

Wait for the political ‘influencers’ Nigerians listen to and quote, from Omokri to Adeyanju through Kperoogi etal to talk.

See if they won’t conclude as I do that Igbos unthinkingly followed Kanu, like they did with Ojukwu, to a grave path that could have been avoided if the average Igbos was a pragmatic thinker and not full of hate to the extent blind and unquestioning follower ship of hatemongers is always assured with them.

Kanu was about blind and rapid preaching of hate of others. Igbos keyed into it because they loved his message so don’t try and make this about Buhari. Like I said, let’s wait for the analysis of ‘weighty voices’ 😎😎

Akiara:
Whoever tells you that you communicate effectively when you write jargons constantly is a big fool.

You write foolishly...and it's not being insulting.

Guess you are a product of free education. That is why you aren't articulate in your write-ups.

Am sorry for being direct..you write stupidly.

Thanks for the compliments your envious and pained diatribe does nothing to hide.

Your lord and master has made a fool of himself and you all by extension because you followed him blindly as you did Ojukwu, Nzeogwu etal. Remember, like Kanu now, Ojukwu came back to contest to be President after sending Igbos to “Biafra or death” civil war?

Kanu will throw his hate in the ring to be Governor of Abia once realleased in 30 yeahs lol.

We shall read the expert comments on Kanu’s new ‘Road to Damascus’ u-turn after he shed a lot of blood and demanded money to buy weapons to fight the “Zoo”.

From imploring they burn down Lagos and kill Tinubu, Sanwo Olu etal during #EndSARS, your terrorist and bloodthirsty hatemonger master now wished to pretend he is open to “genuine restructuring “.

“kill a Yoruba first if found same time in a room with a snake” has anything to do with genuine restructuring or the 1963 constitution ba?

The death of our security and armed force personnel killed , at the instigation of Kanu, to the jubilation of SE folks, even on Nairaland, resembles the actions of people open to progressive option of restructuring?


We shall read the comments of expert analysts as they come in. No one takes the talk of worshippers of hate mongers like you seriously.

MNK
THE ORIGINAL
NO GREE FOR ANYBODY

Same people want a referendum to exit the union so you can have peace. Same you will rather DIE than allow it. Isn't that madness and Obvious parasitic foolishness?

You lost a part of your heritage known as ILORIN and till date you dare not lay claim to it, but you want to banter the same people your FULANI conquerors Fear?

Are you a jumping JACK of stupidity?

GTFOH... Nonsense

TopBanter:


lol. I am not the one to convince of anything as I am way above you and your band of hero-worshippers in intellect. I know what I know.

Wait for the political ‘influencers’ Nigerians listen to and quote, from Omokri to Adeyanju through Kperoogi etal to talk.

See if they won’t conclude as I do that Igbos unthinkingly followed Kanu, like they did with Ojukwu, to a grave path that could have been avoided if the average Igbos was a pragmatic thinker and not full of hate to the extent blind and unquestioning follower ship of hatemongers is always assured with them.

Kanu was about blind and rapid preaching of hate of others. Igbos keyed into it because they loved his message so don’t try and make this about Buhari. Like I said, let’s wait for the analysis of ‘weighty voices’ 😎😎

Kanu, the mad man.

Paraman:
You want referendum, but you all voted massively for peter obi and the labour party in the presidential election... Dey play

Stupid argument!

Were we given the option of a referendum and we rejected it to go out and vote massively for Pierre Obi?

Who did YOU vote for?

PROUDIGBO:


Stupid argument!

Were we given the option of a referendum and we rejected it to go out and vote massively for Pierre Obi?

A very stupid argument

You should all have stayed away from the presidential election to pass a message across.

Keep on playing

FULANI Herdsmen have finished you in SW. All your roads are kidnapping zones

.Tinubu is President...you are crying

Sunday IGBOHO, has run back to his wife, after complaining that he misses his wife. JUST IMAGINE

Same FULANI bombed IBADAN...you can't act

Same FULANI surrounds the SW. Amotekun and your useless government can't act.

When IGBOs talk..just shut up, because you are irrelevant and Worthless. Useless COWARDs.

Babalegba:
Kanu, the mad man.

Akiara:
Same people want a referendum to exit the union so you can have peace. Same you will rather DIE than allow it. Isn't that madness and Obvious parasitic foolishness?

You lost a part of your heritage known as ILORIN and till date you dare not lay claim to it, but you want to banter the same people your FULANI conquerors Fear?

Are you a jumping JACK of stupidity?

GTFOH... Nonsense

You’re a joke. We will soon begin reading from expert Analysts across Nigeria who are not deceitful and revisionist propagandists like you.


They will ask you if Kanu could not consider “genuine restructuring” when he announced on radio Biafra that any Hausa or Yoruba “fool” who comes asking question in the SE should be killed.

You guys are patently dishonest but always discredited in the end. This is another episode loading. Fact is Kanu, Ekpa and co use you because they know once they preach hate then your senses fly out of the window and you become brain dead.

Let me predict now that most analysts will concur Kanu is merely saying all this now to curry favour and escape jail after a trial. Simple.

You are a shallow minded misfit.

Boko Haram kills your security forces

Herdsmen are given tactic cover by your security forces

Bandits are LORDs over your worthless REGION

Ritual killings and organ harvesting is an Epidemic in the SW region.

Advancement of thuggery and foolish godfatherism is on the rise in a worthless region that claims to be sophisticated.

The economy that you ushered in by voting in idiots is in shambles.

The decay in infrastructure and liveability quotient is on the decline.

YOU WONT FACE these issues, but your problem is a man and his organization that seeks to exit your worthless el-dorado?

They same security architecture will Kill you without batting an eyelid, because you are erroneously expendable and Worthless.

It's disgusting empowering your foolishness by even exchanging words with you. You claim to be educated, but you are a typical example of an IDIOT in a SUIT.

Take your stupidity and drop it exclusively at your Worthless gathering of RONU IDIOTS.

This is not an ODUDUWORM gathering... Nonsense

TopBanter:


Thanks for the compliments your envious and pained diatribe does nothing to hide.

Your lord and master has made a fool of himself and you all by extension because you followed him blindly as you did Ojukwu, Nzeogwu etal. Remember, like Kanu now, Ojukwu came back to contest to be President after sending Igbos to “Biafra or death” civil war?

Kanu will throw his hate in the ring to be Governor of Abia once realleased in 30 yeahs lol.

We shall read the expert comments on Kanu’s new ‘Road to Damascus’ u-turn after he shed a lot of blood and demanded money to buy weapons to fight the “Zoo”.

From imploring they burn down Lagos and kill Tinubu, Sanwo Olu etal during #EndSARS, your terrorist and bloodthirsty hatemonger master now wished to pretend he is open to “genuine restructuring “.

“kill a Yoruba first if found same time in a room with a snake” has anything to do with genuine restructuring or the 1963 constitution ba?

The death of our security and armed force personnel killed , at the instigation of Kanu, to the jubilation of SE folks, even on Nairaland, resembles the actions of people open to progressive option of restructuring?


We shall read the comments of expert analysts as they come in. No one takes the talk of worshippers of hate mongers like you seriously.

TopBanter:


Can’t you people ever show you are principled men instead of showing you are slavish worshippers of others?

Kanu had done a climbdown from “Biafra or death” to now been open to “genuine restructuring” yet you must stil lick his two-faced ass.

Anyway, where is Gidgiddy and all the “give us Biafra or nothing” bingos now Kanu , the master whose feet you lick daily, is today throwing you all under the bus, just to gain freedom from “Zoo” cage?

Kanu is now saying he is open to abandoning the Biafra struggle for the restructuring Yorubas have always advocated as most workable. What do you Biafra bingos say about your Ohamadike now?

Hope you know the 1963 constitution Kanu is now suddenly and mysteriously a fan of is essentially linked to regions having autonomy to lead themselves?


You have all followed one man’s Biafra lunacy to cause so many death and upheaval only to come back to what Yorubas suggested was the best way forward from the beginning. You lot are jokers

You've started calling me a Biafran bingo simply because I made my view known.
You've got to rise above your mental fatigue.

Akiara:
You are a shallow minded misfit.

Boko Haram kills your security forces

Herdsmen are given tactic cover by your security forces

Bandits are LORDs over your worthless REGION

Ritual killings and organ harvesting is an Epidemic in the SW region.

Advancement of thuggery and foolish godfatherism is on the rise in a worthless region that claims to be sophisticated.

The economy that you ushered in by voting in idiots is in shambles.

The decay in infrastructure and liveability quotient is on the decline.

YOU WONT FACE these issues, but your problem is a man and his organization that seeks to exit your worthless el-dorado?

They same security architecture will Kill you without batting an eyelid, because you are erroneously expendable and Worthless.

It's disgusting empowering your foolishness by even exchanging words with you. You claim to be educated, but you are a typical example of an IDIOT in a SUIT.

Take your stupidity and drop it exclusively at your Worthless gathering of RONU IDIOTS.

This is not an ODUDUWORM gathering... Nonsense

Are you done? Hope you’ve used your blood thinning tablet today? Don’t go and have a heart attack over what you have no power to change which is that popular consensus will soon be that Kanu has used una hateful heads to drink Garri once again as Oju-Iku etal have done in the past.

He will negotiate a soft landing for himself, as Oju-Iku, did to leave Ekpa to lead the Biafra agitation till Ekpa too is ready to cash out. Loolll.