Leader of the Indigenous People
of Biafra, Mazi Nnamdi Kanu has vowed that Nigeria will burn if the Federal
Government goes ahead to re-arrest him.
Kanu was reacting to the recent
moves by the Nigerian government to arrest him for breaching his bail
condition.
Speaking with Sun, the IPOB
leader said he would resist every attempt to silence him, arguing that he has
not committed any offence that could lead to his rearrest.
He said, “I don’t care! Quote me
verbatim. If I’m re-arrested, this country will burn, I assure you. From where
that oil money they depend on, they can no longer have access to it. I assure
them that.
This is not empty threat. We’re IPOB, we don’t abandon our own.
“I will sacrifice anything,
including my family to ensure that Biafra is restored. Any obstacle on my way
will be obliterated. I’m not asking for Sokoto; I’m not asking for Kaduna, or
Borno, I said this very land where my progenitors raised us; the land of our
ancestors; of over 5, 000 years old, this land must be free, absolutely free, I
assure you of that. The way we were before the whiteman came; had the white man
not come, I would have no relationship with Sokoto, non whatsoever.
“The whiteman is not God, only
God can create a nation, Lord Lugard is not God, only God can create a nation.
I can tell you the day Nigeria was created even till the exact second and hour,
but you can’t tell me when Biafra was created. It came as a result of organic
interaction of cultures and value systems and traditions fussed into one to
make Biafra a possibility, that is how nations emerge.
“By the collision of
commonalities and value systems, not one idiot somewhere pontificating and
dictating to us who should be in a country or not. Other African people can
accept it, Nnamdi kanu cannot accept that.
“The whiteman is not God and
cannot create a country for me. Have Nigerians sat round the table to say we
have agreed that our name is Nigeria? We want to live together; perhaps, there
will be a strong argument against what I’m proposing. Right now, what we are
seeking to do is go back to where we were before 1914. From there, we can then
begin to negotiate and discuss.”