By Afam Okafor
I will keep saying that the call by Nnamdi Kanu and IPOB for disintegration does not contravene any known laws so should not be treated as a criminal case. Even though i have reservations about some of his choice of words, especially in the past, i think what he is doing is a germaine attempt to rile the government of the day to take Ndigbo seriously.
However, i’m disturbed by his recent statement that if Biafra is not given a referendum, that elections will not hold in Igboland, starting with the Anambra elections that comes up in November. While i know him and his group will pull something similar to the successful sit-at-home order, which in itself is within their rights and also does ot contravene any laws, I think if he goes ahead with his threat, we may taking Anambr state and Igboland back to the dark ages. Because it might give some people who have no business being in government taking over government because the electorates did not come out to vote.
We may not be whre we want to be but the Anambra state government starting from Peter Obi now to Obiano have made some leap which we’re hoping that future governors will consolidate on.
So, i want every right thinking Igbo man to condemn Kanu’s statement and i appeal to him to withdraw his statement.
Okafor writes from Onitsha
