Nnamdi Kanu calls nigeria stupid, his reason might interest you.
Nnamdi Kanu in an interview with Al
Jazeera says Nigeria is a stupid country - The interview was the first time he
has spoken to an international media outlet since he was granted bail - Kanu
insisted that the Igbo people have nothing in common with Nigeria. Nnamdi Kanu,
the leader of the Indigenous People Of Biafra, IPOB in an interview has termed
Nigeria a stupid country. Kanu who spoke to Al Jazeera in the parlour of his
father's home in Umuahia insisted that the Igbo people have nothing in common
with Nigeria The interview was the first time he has spoken to an international
media outlet since he was granted bail on health grounds in April by Justice
Binta Nyako.
According to Al Jazeera, Nnamdi Kanu
waves his hand and puffs in frustration: "Nothing seems to be working in
Nigeria. There is pain and hardship everywhere. What we're fighting [for] is
not self-determination for the sake of it. It's because Nigeria is not
functioning and can never function," he said. In a show of defiance and an
apparent flout of his bail conditions, when Al Jazeera asked him if he was
worried that he will land in trouble with the federal government for speaking
to the media outfit, Kanu was said to have scoffed: "I don't care,"
he said and rolls his eyes. Lamenting his situation, Kanu said: "I can't
go outside to call for a press conference. I can't go on Biafra Radio to
broadcast. I can't allow large [groups of] people to basically congregate
outside to see me … it's like asking me not to breathe," he says. Going
further, the leader of IPOB said the Igbo identity is not reckoned with in
Nigeria, hence the reason for his agitation.
"I'm not allowed to contest for
the presidency of Nigeria because I'm Igbo. I'm not allowed to aspire to become
the inspector general of police because I'm Igbo. I'm not allowed to become
chief of army staff because I'm Igbo. What sort of stupid country is
that?" Kanu asks. "Why would any idiot want me to be in that sort of
country? " NAIJ.com recalls that in one of his broadcast on Radio Biafra,
a London-based radio station, Kanu said: "We have one thing in common, all
of us that believe in Biafra, one thing we have in common, a pathological
hatred for Nigeria. I cannot begin to put into words how much I hate Nigeria.
Al Jazeera reports that "on the other
side of the parlour door, dozens of people are waiting to see Kanu. A throng of
young men dressed in black guard the compound. They refer to Kanu as, "our
supreme leader" or "his royal highness." "Kanu is my
saviour," says Sopuru Amah, a senior student at one of Nigeria's oldest
universities, the University of Nigeria in the southeastern city of Nsukka.
"Just like Jesus was sent to save the world, Kanu was sent by God himself
to save the Igbo people." Meanwhile, the Tuesday, May 30, sit-home
exercise as proposed by the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), kicked off in
the southeast. Photos making the rounds all over social media show that many
people within the region have complied with the order to stay home. Very few
people have been seen on the streets and businesses have been locked down for
the day. But as the sit-at-home order continues with the shut-down of some
states in the south-east, a group from the region has warned Nnamdi Kanu
against alleged continued flouting of the bail conditions granted him.
Governors from the South east also maintained that there is no secession plan
in the agenda of the Igbos.
Well I feel Nnamdi Kanu’s pain
quoting ”im not allowed to contest for presidency of Nigeria because am igbo….
etc”
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