The
leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Nnamdi Kanu, has said nothing
can ever make him change his mind about the struggle for an independent state
of Biafra.
According
to him, it is either “Biafra or death.”
Kanu
stated this in Umuahia during an interview with Kadaria Ahmed of ‘THE CORE’ – a
programme on Channels Television.
He
disclosed that he would not push for a civil war to achieve Biafra independence
but would employ the truth which he described as a ‘more potent and deadlier
weapon than bullet and mortars’.
Kanu
maintained that had all the ethnic nationalities in Nigeria come together to
choose for themselves the kind of country they wanted, he would have
soft-pedaled on the struggle and submitted to a united Nigeria. However, such a
move is too late because many people have died in the course of Biafra
agitation.
He
also expressed his distrust and disgust at the dishonesty of most Nigerian
political leaders.
He
said: “No, I have not changed my mind. An independent Biafra means going back
to where we were before the Whiteman came. I am talking about total
independence from Nigeria.
“Nothing can ever happen to make me change my
mind about this direct of independence for Biafra. It is either Biafra or
death.
“I
will not go to war because truth is a far more potent and deadlier weapon than
bullet and mortars. I have absolutely ruled out war from the struggle.
“When
I say Biafra or death, I mean I will keep pushing either I am alive or dead in
the process, I won’t stop.
“Had
sovereign national conference been convened by the powers that be, where every
ethnic nationality group sit down to ask what type of country do we want; sit
down discuss and agree; I can begin to perhaps submit.
“But
it is way too late because they have killed so many people. They have ruined so
many lives. They have wasted too many souls. How do we bring those people back?
“I can
no longer change my mind because of the deceptions of the past. No trust Aburi
was there it was negotiated. Nothing happened. And the confab report? What
became of it? How about the 3 Rs; Reconciliation, Reconstruction and heaven
knows what.
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