ADF PRESS STATEMENT ON THE ATTEMPT BY THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT TO RE-ARREST MAZI NNAMDI KANU
In their
Press Statement of June 27th, the Arewa Youths had given the Igbos
ultimatum to leave Northern Nigeria latest by October 1, 2017. Many people
regarded their action as treasonable and a threat of genocide. The Governor of
Kaduna State and the Inspector-General of Police declared that they should be
arrested. They were not arrested. Rather
what we heard were series of statements from some Arewa leaders supporting their
action. One such leader is Prof,AngoAbdulahi, a former Vice Chancellor of the
Ahmadu Bello University,Consequently, the Arewa Youths continued in their
belligerent threats and mocked the arrest orders.
President
Buhari who returned to Nigeria on August 19, 2017 after 103 days in Britain
receiving treatment for undisclosed ailment, in his very short and pointed
speech, did not address the Quit Notice to Ndigbo by Arewa Youths; nor did he condemn
the virulent Hausa hate songs being circulated as a mass mobilization tool for
the Looming Genocide against Ndigbo.
The
President did not even address the renewed insurgence of Boko Haram; nor the
rising agitation from East, South, West, North Central and even from
well-meaning people in the Arewa territory for renegotiating the future of the Federal Republic of Nigeria
which some banally call restructuring and so on. Some leaders in his position
would have, in good conscience, even commented on the development in the crises
that had rocked the Peoples’ Democratic Party as having brought a respite to a
situation that could create a major political crises to the country.
Rather,
President Buhariused this maiden opportunity to declare war on the Indigenous
Peoples of Biafra (IPOB) and Boko Haram, thereby equating the two as terrorist
organizations. It was as if President Buhari was brought back to declare war on
IPOB,MrNnamdiKanu and Ndi-Igbo.
A
few days after, the Arewa Youths followed by calling on President Buhari to
arrest NnamdiKanu and try him for treason. As if in obedience to their call,
the President asked the Attorney General and Minister of Justice to commence
the process of arresting NnamdiKanu. We want to stress that the opinion of many
Arewa leaders that Nigeria is their conquered territory is at best only an
illusion.
Since this
macabre dance started, many Ndigbo in the North for fear of a looming genocide,
have continued to leave the North where they have lived for the better parts of
their lives to the South East where they are like refugees. This still does not
qualify anyone for arrest. Many hate songs have been waxed and released to the
Northern masses as a mobilization tool for the D-day and yet no one is
arrested.
Nigeria is
currently struggling to contain Boko Haram insurgency in the North and can ill
afford to add militant resistance in the South East, the South-South and other
aggrieved parts of the country, to say the least.
Indeed,
those who are President Buhari’s close associates and handlers have failed to
inform him that even within the 103 days he was away, so much has changed in
the political tempo of Njgeria. The situation has gone beyond NnamdiKanuand the
IPOB. The entire country is now engulfed in a political crises hitherto unknown
in its history. It is no longer the North versus the South. It is no longer a
coalition against the Igbos. The SONG OF FREEDOM can be heard in every nook and
cranny of the nation except in the comfort zones of those who trade with the
destiny of the people.
The ALAIGBO
DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION (ADF) admonishes Mr President to take it easy. He should
begin by clearing the dangerous debris around him. He needs God-fearing men
around him.
His
headache is not NnandiKanu or IPOB or the Igbo nation. It is not even the
South–South, the North Centralor the West. His headache is how to create an
enabling environment for the various nationalities to come together to decide
WHICH WAY NIGERIA?
MrNnamdiKanu
is a prisoner of conscience. Nigeria is now swarming with many people like him.
If you incarcerate him again, it will not relief your headache, it will even explode.
For the avoidance of doubt, this type of attitude of creating two kinds of
citizens; one those above the law ( Arewa Youths) and the other, those that
will be blackmailed by the punishment of the law even when they commit no
offense (IPOB) is one of the things that fuel most of the agitations all over
the country. No reasonable Nigerian wants to live in a nation with such level
of inequity, prebendalism and obvious threat to national unity schewed against
some of the nationalities that constitute the nation. Mr President, Nigeria has
never been as divided as this except during the genocide against Ndi-Igbo
(1967-70); you need therefore to rethink your strategy in order to avert
unnecessary tension in this polity. Nigeria’s unity is negotiable, that’s all
that NnamdiKanu and IPOB are pointing at and therefore needs redressing. Nobody
is a slave of the other in this country. If there is no law obliterating
divorce in Nigeria, it is ironical to think that by mere wishful thinking that
Nigeria will remain as it were a model of abusive marriage.
You prayed
hard and sought desperately to rule Nigeria once again. God has granted your
wish. Little did you know that you were inheriting a country with terminal illness.Mr
President, you should be reminded that Justice Ademola’s court granted
NnamdiKanu unconditional bail that has not been vacated by any court yet you
refused to obey this order; instead, you dealt with the Honourable Justice in
the most ignoble manner that the country has never witnessed before. You also
went ahead to obtain this notorious bail against Kanu. We pray that you change
your mind to rule with equity and good conscience.
PROF.
UZODINMA NWALA PROF.
NATH ANIEKWU
ADF PRESIDENT ADF SECRETARY.
Alaigbo Development Foundation asks Federal Government to arrest Nnamdi Kanu?
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