Addressing elders
and chieftains at his residence in Ibeku, Umuahia, Abia State on Thursday,
Nnamdi Kanu, leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), said his
organization would kill former President Olusegun Obasanjo if he attempts to
harm the IPOB leader.
Saharareporters said, Mr. Kanu’s threat
came after former President Obasanjo commented that Nigerians must do
everything possible to stop the campaigning for the secession of Biafra, a
cause spearheaded by Mr. Kanu.
The former
president made the comment on Tuesday while speaking at the International
Conference Centre in Abuja during the launch of the biography of the late
Brigadier Zakariya Maimalari. He stressed that a failure to put an end to the
Biafra agitation could lead to a repeat of the 1966 coup and the other events
that eventually culminated in the civil war.
The Biafran
agitator responded with a threat to the elder statesman.
“I remember
Obasanjo calling us names. They said we must eliminate Kanu and for those words
coming out from his mouth, he is going to die,” Mr. Kanu declared.
“I told Obasanjo
that I have given instructions to IPOB should anything happen to me. Everything
that comes from Obasanjo’s lineage will die the same day at the same time. It
is a standing instruction to IPOB.
“Wherever they
are, we will kill them ourselves at the same time, the same day, 12 noon,
wherever we find them all over the world. I am not like anything they have seen
before,” Mr. Kanu boasted.
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