“Perhaps, IPOB leader, Nnamdi Kanu, has got the ace; little wonder his teeming supporters trust he will deliver Biafran state to them. This belief is also vented vis a rally by the chiefs and elders from Port Harcourt, Rivers State, with full permission of the police recently…
Read report from the Police PRO below:
Contrary to speculation, the Rivers State police Command gave a full approval before the leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Nnamdi Kanu, visited Port Harcourt, Rivers State, and rallied his supporters on his ongoing tour of states supposed to fall within the Biafra.
Sources at the security apparatus disclosed that when the intelligence report on the visit was received, there was no opposition to disallowing it from holding.
The source said since there had not been any breakdown of law and order in all the places that the Bisfran leader had visited.
Also the Rivers State Police Public Relations Officer (PPRO), Nnamdi Omoni, a Deputy Superintendent of Police (DSP), confirming this added that the police were under no instruction to disrupt the visit and the subsequent rally.
It was learnt that but for the presence of police at the rally ground for kanu’s reception, the crowd could not have been effectively controlled.
“We are aware of his (Kanu) visit to Port Harcourt. We got pre-intelligence report of the visit and we put adequate security in place, to ensure that the people did not take laws into their hands.
“The best we did was to allow the rally hold, otherwise not even the entire police force in the country could have successfully disperse the ever surging crowd,” the command spokesman disclosed.
Kanu had at the reception restated the demand for referendum to be held for the South Eastern to become an independent nation, declaring that the region would not be Islamised.
In his words: “My earlier position that election would not take place in Biafraland, especially the scheduled November 18, governorship poll in Anambra State still persists, pending the referendum for Biafra.
“I mean every word of it, the Anambra State election would serve as the
