The embattled leader of the pro-Biafra group, the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, Nnamdi Kanu has challenged the Nigerian president, Muhammadu Buhari to come up with a better argument to convince him against his current fight for Biafra.
Kanu while speaking on Wednesday in Anambra state in reaction to the President Muhammadu Buhari’s order against his security agency and his secessionist group, IPOB, stated that Buhari should instead of ordering war on him convince him otherwise.
Recall that president Muhammadu Buhari also held a meeting on Tuesday with Security chiefs where he discussed the issue of IPOB – among other “security threats” in the country.
Kanu while defending his claim noting that IPOB is not a violent group stated that the “recourse to brute force to solve national problems would never work,”
Kanu further stated that Nigerians must not be “railroaded into succumbing to intimidation”.
He added: “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.”
Nnamdi Kanu however added that the IPOB group will never resort to violence as a means of achieving their quest for Biafra.
He added: “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.
“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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