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| Nnamdi Kanu IPOB Leader |
The Indigenous People of Biafra, on Monday, commended the
South-East governors for calling for the release of their leader, Nnamdi Kanu.
The Federal Government is prosecuting Kanu, alongside some
other Biafran activists, over alleged offences that border on treasonable
felony.
The Biafran activists and other stakeholders in the
South-East had accused the governors of the region of not showing concern about
Kanu’s travails, saying that the governors did not show any interest in the
renewed agitation for the Biafran cause.
They accused the governors of not being “committed to the
interests of their people.”
However, the governors, at a meeting of the South-East
Governors Forum, in Enugu on Sunday, resolved to meet with President Muhammadu
Buhari to press for Kanu’s release.
The governors equally resolved to engage the Federal
Government over the pro-Biafran agitation spearheaded by IPOB and the Movement
for Actualisation of the Sovereign State of Biafra.
Reacting to the development, IPOB said the South-East
governors had ‘summoned courage at last’.
“The Indigenous People of Biafra and its leadership
worldwide commend the South-East Governors Forum for summoning the courage at
last to call for the release of our leader from illegal detention in Abuja,”
the group said in a statement signed by its spokesman, Mr. Emma Powerful.
IPOB said it was the first time the governors would align
with the interests of the people they govern.
But the secessionists equally noted that things would have
been better in the South-East if the governors had been speaking out for their
people all along.
IPOB urged the governors to speak out against the violent
activities of Fulani herdsmen in the region.
“This is the first time in recorded history that South-East
governors have stood boldly to align themselves with the interest of the
masses, which, in this case, is the call for Buhari to end the injustice
against the people of Biafra by releasing Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, the IPOB leader.
“If they had summoned the courage like Governor Fayose of
Ekiti State, and former Anambra State governor, Dr. (Chukwuemeka) Ezeife, the
South-East wouldn’t have been in such a moral mess it is today.
“We hope this
new-found boldness will extend to them speaking up for the victims of Fulani
herdsmen attacks in our rural communities,” IPOB said.
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