Don’t Negotiate With Kanu, Ohanaeze Warns Igbo Governors

The Ohanaeze Ndigbo Youth Council has said the popularity of the leader of Indigenous People of Biafra, Nnamdi Kanu, came about because of President Muhammadu Buhari’s poor handling of the economy which exposed the citizenry to acute hardship.

The Igbo youth body said Kanu had seen the lapses in Buhari’s handling of the country’s affairs and decided to capitalize on it, adding that this development had given the IPOB the leeway to attack, without remorse, the country’s leadership.

According to OYC, if the President had administered the country properly and carried everybody along,  irrespective of tribe, nobody would have had the effrontery to castigate his government.

The Deputy President-General of the group, Obinna Achionye, stated this in a statement on Saturday.
The group noted that IPOB was merely deploying different strategies to draw the attention of the international community to itself, saying that the group lost its popularity before the 2019 general elections. It alleged that the group was being sponsored by politicians within and outside the country.

It said the group’s bid was to have a presidential candidate from the North-East emerge as the winner of the 2019 presidential election, the opposite of which had emboldened IPOB’s anger against Igbo governors.