MEND and Buhari are Dishonorable, My Husband can’t renounce Biafra – Mrs. Nnamdi Kanu

Wife of Nnamdi Kanu, the detained leader of the Indigenous Peoples of Biafra (IPOB), Uchechi, has said that it is too late for him to shelve his strug­gle for a Biafra Republic. 

She warned those spread­ing the news that her husband will soon give up the agitation for a Biafra Republic to forget the idea because he would not do so.  

In a statement issued on her behalf by the IPOB Di­rector of Media and Publicity, Mr. Emma Powerful, Mrs Kanu said that the media re­ports that her husband will denounce Biafra is wrong and insulting as the Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND) or any other person or group cannot nego­tiate on behalf of her husband. 

Uchechi said: 

 “Anybody thinking that my husband will renounce Biafra is certifiably insane; MEND does not speak for my husband. The news, as distressing as it is, is laugha­ble because no group can pos­tulate what my husband can do or say. This is not only an insult to our belief but also a despoliation of our rights as a people perpetrated by dishonorably minds.”

She accused the Federal Government of deliberately detaining Kanu, adding that the Abuja High Court initial­ly granted him bail but President Muhammadu Buhari said in December 2015 that the IPOB leader would not be released because he could jump bail and flee to the Unit­ed Kingdom (UK) because he holds both the British and Ni­gerian passports. 

She said:  

“Based on the impression that my husband could jump bail, it is now ap­parent that the charges against him are politically-motivated and not a judicial process as President Buhari would have the world believe.

“This singular act of tyr­anny and injustice against my husband amongst oth­ers is reprehensible to every reasonable mind and is one of the critical reasons for the emergence of the Niger Del­ta Avengers who have in their quest, consistently called for the release of my husband which President Buhari has underplayed. Subsequently, my husband should be pre­sent at any negotiations and I can refer President Buhari to former President F.W. de Klerk of South Africa on how to ne­gotiate with the freedom fight­ers,” she said.