Biafra: Igbo Group Alleges ‘Certain Politician From South’ Behind Nnamdi Kanu

An Igbo professional group, Coalition of South East Professionals Network in Nigeria and Diaspora (CSEPNND), has claimed that desperate politicians feeling threatened by the chances of Igbo producing the next president of the country in 2023 are sponsoring leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, Nnamdi Kanu, to scuttle the bid.

The group made the allegation when it condemned the activities of IPOB and Kanu, and called on the governors of the South East region, Ohanaeze Ndigbo, and well-meaning Igbo sons and daughters to rise against the proscribed group by rejecting them totally.

The group insisted that the region must be vigilant and not yield to Kanu’s deceit that he is acting in the interest of the South East.

In a statement signed by its National President, Prof. Madumere Chika and the National Secretary, Mazi Anayo Uchemba, on Friday, the group alleged that “a certain Nigerian politician from the South” is bankrolling Kanu to scuttle Igbo’s quest for presidency in 2023.

It claimed that it has been vindicated that certain forces were behind the IPOB leader and his inglorious activities, following recent happenings around him.

“We wish to authoritatively say that Mazi Nnamdi Kanu is not working for the interest of Ndigbo, rather he is being bankrolled by a certain Nigerian politician who is contesting the 2023 presidential elections from the South against the Igbos.

“We are vindicated by the findings and happenings around Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, the fugitive leader of IPOB, and we call on all Ndigbo around the World to distance themselves from this Kanu and his terrorist group,” the statement said.

According to the Igbo group, the said politician “is doing this through some of his key aides to cause disaffection in Nigeria between the Igbos and other regions of our country.

“The politician, having realized that the general mood in the country now is the high sympathy Nigerians have for Igbo people in 2023 general elections, decided to employ this method to set Ndigbo up against Nigeria and we must not allow this.”