*Say, ‘Asking me not to grant interview is like saying I shouldn’t breathe’

*Take Nnamdi Kanu back in prison now to avoid constitutional crisis – Court told

Al Jazeera: In one broadcast, 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.”

Recently released leader of Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Nnamdi Kanu, has broken out of the cage of his bail conditions saying asking him not to grant press interview, be in gathering of more than ten people and grant press interview or broadcast on the inciting Radio Biafra is like asking him not to breathe.

Kanu stated this in an exclusive interview he granted Al-Jazeera which was also published on the interview broadcasting media organisation’s website, linked http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/features/2017/05/50-years-nigeria-biafra-secessionist-movement-170529151102396.html, on Tuesday.

The self-style Biafra secessionist group leader, Nnamdi Kanu, granting interview to the international medium, Al-Jazeera, was said to have knocked Nigeria out of possibility of getting any better.  He said Nigeria was not function and that it can never function.

According to Al-Jazeera, Kanu said, “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.”

Not even the calling of his attention to possibility of his getting into trouble with the Nigerian authorities for speaking to Al-Jazeera was of any meaning to him as he was said to have scoffed saying “I don’t care,” and rolled his eyes.

The Al Jazeera report read, “The leader of a group demanding the secession of southeastern Nigeria is speaking exclusively to Al Jazeera in the parlour of his father’s home in the southeastern city of Umuahia.

“It’s the first time he has spoken to an international media outlet since he was granted bail on health grounds last month. His bail conditions prohibit him from being in a crowd of more than 10 people, leaving the country and giving media interviews.

“But when asked if he is worried that he will get in trouble with the Nigerian authorities for speaking to Al Jazeera he scoffs, “I don’t care,” and rolls his eyes.”

Kanu went on showing disdain to the conditions for which Justice Nyako granted him bail, “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 said to Al Jazeera.

On the other side of the parlour door, the international media outlet said, 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 left Nigeria to study economics and politics at the London Metropolitan University and started Radio Biafra, an obscure, niche, London-based radio station in 2009.

“In one broadcast, 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.”

Nnamdi is Kanu is backed by all Nigerian political leaders who see are insistent on why the current Federal Government of President Muhammadu Buhari must be allowed to succeed.

The huge support that the IPOB leader has enjoyed from former Minister of Aviation, Mr. Femi Fani-Kayode, the Governor of Ekiti State, Mr. Ayodele Fayose, former Governor of Central Bank of Nigeria, Mr. Charles Chukwuma Soludo, Prof. Pat Utomi and many others, who have been accused of using the IPOB to lead an anti-Buhari PDP political offensives against the government, is not hidden.

But a respondent of The DEFENDER, who spoke last night on what he described as laying bad precedence on the part of Nnamdi Kanu and other PDP leaders who celebrate him even while flaunting court orders thereby mocking the integrity of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, said, “What Kanu has done now is to say that he is more powerful than Nigeria.  Although he said Umuahia, his birthplace, is not located in Nigeria.  He will need to tell the rest of us the sane and law abiding citizens of Nigeria why he and his people including the law makers of Nigeria’s National Assembly backing him should expect the law of Nigeria they don’t believe in to protect him.  The court should order his arrest immediate to save the country of constitutional crisis,” he said.