The Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, has alleged that former president Olusegun Obasanjo wants its leader Nnamdi Kanu assassinated.
The group quoting an online news website said the former president during a speech at the launch of the biography of Brigadier Maimalari called for Kanu’s assassination.
In a statement signed by its Head of Directorate of State, Chika Edoziem, which was sent to IGBERE TV, IPOB called on the international community to take note of the development adding that the former president should be held account if anything happens to Kanu.
The statement read: “It has come to the attention of the Directorate of State of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) that a news report which appeared on the daily post news online on 4th of July 2017 written by one Chijioke Jannah calls for the leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) Onyendu Mazi Nnamdi Kanu to be assassinated.
“According to the report the former president Olusegun Obasanjo while speaking on Tuesday at the International Community Centre, Abuja during the launch of the biography of late Brigadier Zakariya Maimalari called for the leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra Nnamdi Kanu to be stopped by all means.
“The International Community is put on notice that former president Olusegun Obasanjo is calling for the assassination of the leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra Nnamdi Kanu. This call epitomizes the sorry state of the intellectual aptitude of those that like to be addresses as leaders in Nigeria. Because they lack superior reasoning to counter or persuade the Biafran people to give up their fundamental and inalienable right to Self-Determination, they resort to violence.
“The Directorate of State of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) hereby unambiguously and categorically state that should anything untoward happen to Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, the former president Olusegun Obasanjo who has called for his assassination together with the Nigerian government should be held accountable.
