Leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, Mazi
Nnamdi Kanu has vowed that Nigeria will burn if the
Federal Government goes ahead to re-arrest him.
Kanu was reacting to the recent moves by the
Nigerian government to arrest him for breaching his
bail condition.
Speaking with Sun, the IPOB leader said he would
resist every attempt to silence him, arguing that he
has not committed any offence that could lead to his
rearrest.
He said, “I don’t care! Quote me verbatim. If I’m re-
arrested, this country will burn, I assure you. From
where that oil money they depend on, they can no
longer have access to it. I assure them that. This is
not empty threat. We’re IPOB, we don’t abandon our
own.
“I will sacrifice anything, including my family to ensure
that Biafra is restored. Any obstacle on my way will
be obliterated. I’m not asking for Sokoto; I’m not
asking for Kaduna, or Borno, I said this very land
where my progenitors raised us; the land of our
ancestors; of over 5, 000 years old, this land must be
free, absolutely free, I assure you of that. The way we
were before the whiteman came; had the white man
not come, I would have no relationship with Sokoto,
non whatsoever.
“The whiteman is not God, only God can create a
nation, Lord Luguard is not God, only God can create
a nation. I can tell you the day Nigeria was created
even till the exact second and hour, but you can’t tell
me when Biafra was created. It came as a result of
organic interaction of cultures and value systems and
traditions fussed into one to make Biafra a possibility,
that is how nations emerge.
“By the collision of commonalities and value systems,
not one idiot somewhere pontificating and dictating to
us who should be in a country or not. Other African
people can accept it, Nnamdi kanu cannot accept
that.
“The whiteman is not God and cannot create a
country for me. Have Nigerians sat round the table to
say we have agreed that our name is Nigeria? We
want to live together; perhaps, there will be a strong
argument against what I’m proposing. Right now,
what we are seeking to do is go back to where we
were before 1914. From there, we can then begin to
negotiate and discuss.”
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