Leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Mazi
Nnamdi Kanu has threatened to wipe out former President Olusegun Obasanjo and
his household should he (Kanu) be killed. Addressing elders and chieftains at
his residence in Ibeku, Umuahia, Abia State on Thursday, Kanu said his
organization would kill Obasanjo if he attempts to harm him.
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 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,” 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,” Kanu boasted.
Sahara Reporters
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