The police had on Wednesday dispersed members of the group who had gathered to receive Kanu in the town
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The heavy presence of security operatives, including the police, the army and the navy, made the people wonder what was amiss until they learned that the IPOB leader, Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, was scheduled to visit the area
The National Chairman of the party, Victor Oye, made the refutation when Anambra Governor, Willie Obiano, came to the National Secretariat of the party in Abuja to submit his nomination form.
Ezonwuka told newsmen in Oba, Idemili South Council on Wednesday that the no-election-in-Anambra song by the agitators was both illogical and out of tune with modern reality.
The party’s National Director of Publicity, Ifeanacho Oguejiofor, said in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria in Abuja that the call was unrealistic as nothing would stop the election.
The IG said this when he addressed policemen at the Police College, Ikeja during a two-day visit to Lagos
Shettima spoke after a meeting with Kalu on Tuesday in Abuja
Governor Kashim Shettima of Borno State, who is the Chairman of Northern States Governors Forum, said the region is not afraid of restructuring and its position on the issue would be in the best interest of the region
Addressing a news conference in Abuja, the Speaker of the Arewa Youth Assembly, Mohammed Salihu, and the Clerk, Desmond Minakaro, accused the Federal Government of aiding and abetting the Indigenous People of Biafra leader to breach the bail conditions handed him by Justice Binta Nyako of the Federal High Court, Abuja and inciting Nigerians against the government at major rallies in the South South and South East states
Ukwa, who claimed to be one of the foundation members of APGA, made the call at a stakeholders’ forum organised by Ogilisi Foundation, a socio-cultural organisation, in Oba, near Onitsha, on Friday.
Kanu, who spoke when leaders of Igbo Civil Society Coalition, led by Prof. Obasi Igwe, paid him a solidarity visit in his Umuahia, Abia State home, also gave knocks to Igbo elites for their anti-Biafra activities, saying that they have no interest in the Igbo masses
The protest, in front of the country’s embassy in the United Kingdom, was against the killings by the Boko Haram sect then.
What you believe is good for the Igbo or what you prefer for them is neither here nor there.
I believe that he exhibited immense strength and courage by letting go of power even though he did NOT lose the 2015 presidential election but was rather rigged out of it and even though he did NOT need to do so.
The Commissioner of Police, Garba Umar, said this in Awka while reacting to the call by the Indigenous People of Biafra on residents of the state to boycott the November 18 governorship election.
The President-General of the organisation, Chief John Nwodo, gave the warning in Awka on Thursday, while addressing members of the Anambra State House of Assembly.
The Pentecostal Fellowship of Nigeria has advised Nnamdi Kanu and other pro-Biafra groups to settle down and work on dialogue…
The party, in a letter to Kanu, signed by its National Publicity Secretary, Ifeatu Obiokoye, and made available to the media in Awka
The proactive move by the Acting President to engage the South East and Northern elders has expectedly doused the tension that was generated by the vituperations of the respective region’s youth groups. Hate speeches or provocative comments serve as catalysts for political conflagration that may have unintended consequences
The government of President Muhammadu Buhari does not need additional problems on its crammed table. It already has the unenviable task of confronting a degraded but still deadly Boko Haram insurgency and the untold devastation in human and material resources it wreaks in the North East