Some interests within the hierarchy of the Indigenous People of Biafra want its leader, Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, dead, the Ohanaeze Youth Council alleged.
The council’s national president, Comrade Igboayaka O. Igboayaka, made the claims in Owerri, Saturday, while interacting with newsmen. He said he arrived at the conclusion after conducting what he called “classified security details on IPOB activities since the re-arrest of Nnamdi Kanu at Kenya.”
Igboayaka said, “Some cliques on the corridors of power in IPOB are deliberately and craftily dishing out ideas and plans that are counter-productive to frustrate the legal fights of Nnamdi Kanu’s lawyers.
“These power mongers are not happy with legal doggedity of Barr Ifeanyi Ejiofor and Barr Aloy Ejimakor.”
Igboayaka identified the anti-Kanu conspirators to be “supposed leaders of the freedom fighting outfit”, whom he accused of plotting the downfall of Kanu through their “sugar-coated utterances.”
In his words, “Unfortunately, 60% of this sabotage is coming from leaders of IPOB in the diaspora, and had stretched their antenna to enroll other apostles of Nnamdi Kanu and IPOB in Nigeria into their new business.
“It’s the very truth that the safety of Mazi Nnamdi Kanu in the hands of the Nigerian government is paramount.
“This means the approach of Igbo liberation crusaders of IPOB members should change dimension. Because there are cliques of selfish men that want to indict Mazi Nnamdi Kanu through their utterances and action that seem to show love or loyalty to Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, but when analysed, it’s a means to tighten the release of Mazi Nnamdi Kanu.
“What Cesar suffered in the hands of Brutus who Killed him when he needed him most represents the ordeal of Mazi Nnamdi Kanu in the hands of top IPOB members.
“Therefore, Mazi Nnamdi Kanu’s family should wake up not to allow anyone or group to provoke the Nigerian government to harm him or apply delay methods to keep him in detention.
“It’s unfortunate that power and positions have become the utmost interest of these selfish power drunken elements in IPOB instead of the release and safety of Mazi Nnamdi Kanu.
“What matters most to them is as far they feast fat on the treasury of IPOB, Nnamdi Kanu can die or remain in detention.
“They have equipped some gangsters to unleash mayhem in Igbo land, engaging in kidnapping, robbery, using sit-at home protest to commit crimes against Ndigbo in order to indict IPOB and Nnamdi Kanu before Nigeria and the international community.”
The Ohanaeze Youth Council, therefore, urged “dogged apostles of IPOB to remain resolute and not to deviate from the actual goal, hence the actualisation of self-determination.”
The council also reiterated the need to “change any approach that may indict Mazi Nnamdi Kanu before the oppressors”, stressing that Mazi Nnamdi Kanu “is coming out from detention victoriously.”
Igboayaka said those behind the sinister plot would be exposed.
