*IPOB has my standing order to wipe out Obasanjo and his family – Kanu
A respondent told The DEFENDER that, “I want to stand by an opinion published earlier in your online newspaper where the writer said he would not be surprised if Arewa Youths insisted on their quit notice to the Igbo living in the North adducing his reason from the fact that no matter how peaceful Nigerians of North and West choose to live with them, they will never change. Don’t mind the Afenifere meeting with Igbo over secession, they are PDP we know.”
Leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Nnamdi Kanu, has threatened to wipe out former President Olusegun Obasanjo and his household should he (Kanu) be killed.
Addressing elders and chieftains at his residence in Ibeku, Umuahia, Abia State on Thursday, Kanu said his organization would kill Obasanjo if he attempts to harm him.
Kanu’s threat came after former President Obasanjo commented that Nigerians must do everything possible to stop the campaigning for the secession of Biafra, a cause spearheaded by Kanu.
The former president made the comment on Tuesday while speaking at the International Conference Centre in Abuja during the launch of the biography of the late Brigadier Zakariya Maimalari.
Maimalari, the first Nigerian ever to be commissioned as military officer, was killed along with Nigeria’s Prime Minister Tafawa Balewa, Premier of Northern Nigeria Sardauna Ahmadu Bello and others by soldiers from the tribe of the secessionist agitator, Kanu.
Obasanjo had stressed during the book launch that a failure to put an end to the Biafra agitation could lead to a repeat of the 1966 coup and the other events that eventually culminated in the civil war.
Nnamidi Kanu, according to Sahara Reporters, responded with a threat to the elder statesman.
“I remember Obasanjo calling us names. They said we must eliminate Kanu and for those words coming out from his mouth, he is going to die,” Kanu declared.
“I told Obasanjo that I have given instructions to IPOB should anything happen to me. Everything that comes from Obasanjo’s lineage will die the same day at the same time. It is a standing instruction to IPOB.
“Wherever they are, we will kill them ourselves at the same time, the same day, 12 noon, wherever we find them all over the world. I am not like anything they have seen before,” Kanu boasted.
The latest threat by Kanu to the face of his people and particularly his king father continue to agitate the minds of many Nigerians outside Igbo Land who are angry that nobody condemns Kanu and his anti-Nigeria offenders but have consistently condemned the Arewa Youths for asking the Igbo to live.
A respondent told The DEFENDER that, “I want to stand by an opinion published earlier in your online newspaper where the writer said he would not be surprised if Arewa Youths insisted on their quit notice to the Igbo living in the North adducing his reason from the fact that no matter how peaceful Nigerians of North and West choose to live with them, they will never change. Don’t mind the Afenifere meeting with Igbo over secession, they are PDP we know.
“Just look at the latest comments coming from somebody who is quite aware of conditions guarding his release from prison on health grounds a suspected criminal undergoing trial for treason offence. Like Obasanjo said, if something is not done at this time to Kanu, Nigeria will just be a huge joke pursuing the anti-insecurity course,” he said.
