Mark My Words, Nigeria ‘Will Burn’ If I’m Re-Arrested – Nnamdi Kanu

Nnamdi Kanu, leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), has said the country “will burn” in the event that he gets re-arrested by the Federal Government.

Kanu was reacting to recent moves by the Nigerian government to get him behind bars.

The WHISTLER recalls that Abubakar Malami (SAN), the Attorney General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, had lately approached the Abuja Federal High Court to seek revocation of Kanu’s bail and his consequent re-arrest.

But the IPOB leader, who had previously dared the Nigerian government to re-arrest him, said he will ensure the government no longer has access to its source of revenue (oil money) if he gets re-arrested.

“Before now, Nnamdi Kanu is Igbo, he is a Biafran and can be arrested and nothing will happen but that would not be anymore, it would no longer happen.

“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.

“Biafra is coming and that we must remain very strong and resolute. The only thing He requires of us is to worship Him, that’s all He wants us to do and not to worship idol and Biafra will come and the world will see and will testify it. The Igbo should turn away from idolatry and face God and Him alone, that’s the message he said I should give my people,” he said.

Meanwhile there are indications that the IPOB leader may have been placed under surveillance by the Nigeria police ahead of the November 8 Anambra governorship election.

The Force PRO, Jimoh Moshood had told newsmen that the police have made additional deployment of its men particularly to “Anambra state, because of the upcoming governorship election and also to other south-east and south-south states to ensure that IPOB did not actualise its threat of stopping the election.”