Nnamdi Kanu To Buhari: Defeat Me With Superiority Of Your Argument Not With AK 47.
Nnamdi
Kanu, leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), has asked
President Muhammadu Buhari to come up with a better argument in the
“debate for freedom”.
Kanu said this on Wednesday in Abia state
while reacting to Buhari’s marching order to security agencies to tackle
the excesses of secessionist groups, including IPOB.
The
president had also discussed the issue of IPOB – among other “security
threats” – with service chiefs during a meeting on Tuesday.
But Kanu faulted claims that IPOB is a violent group.
While
stating that the “recourse to brute force to solve national problems
would never work,” the IPOB leader said the people must not be
“railroaded into succumbing to intimidation”.
“In this debate for
freedom, everybody has to be heard. Buhari should defeat me with the
superiority of his argument not AK 47,” he said.
“Some people quickly recourse to violence, hate and intimidation because they have lost the force of argument.
“It
is the continuation of Buhari’s dictatorial and unwholesomely
undemocratic approach to governance. I find it unacceptable and
insulting that somebody elected by the people can turn around and
dictate to them how he wants them to behave.”
Kanu added that the group would never resort to violence in its quest for a sovereign state of Biafra.
“There
is no need for people to be afraid of the internal operations of the
IPOB. We will never ever resort to armed violence or armed conflict of
any sort,” he said.
“I will not do anything that will bring
dishonour or shame to our people and if I do it, IPOB will never be
violent, we will never be armed.
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