ABUJA — Leader of Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, Mr. Nnamdi Kanu, yesterday, tackled the Acting President, Prof. Yemi Osinbajo, for declaring the Biafran agitation unconstitutional.
Kanu, in a world press interview he held through his team of lawyer in Abuja, he said that Osinbajo's view about Biafra was "obviously misconstrued and characteristically faulty," in spite of his rank as a Senior Advocate of Nigeria.
In an announcement by his legal advisor, Mr. Ifeanyi Ejiofor, Kanu demanded that "additional legal comments" Osinbajo made before the Igbo Council of Traditional Rulers, in reference to Biafran fomentation, was hostile to area 2 of the 1999 Constitution, as altered.
The announcement read to some extent: "We are by and by floating into the account that had up to this point kept our customer in unlawful imprisonment for year and a half, in clear break of positive requests of court that coordinated for his unrestricted discharge. Undesirable obstruction by the official arm in the issue under the watchful eye of the court, vide proclamations fit for placing fears in the court is an a valid example.
"This is obvious in the current additional legal comments by the Acting President, unmistakably contained in his introduction before the Igbo Council of Traditional Rulers, that the fomentation for Biafra is unlawful as it insults area 2 of the 1999 Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, as corrected, 2011, and ensuing danger of capture and detainment of those that activity their verifiable and basic rights to self assurance.
"This assertion is deferentially considered as provocative and inadmissible, as well as an unmistakable instance of undue obstruction with legal process, which have the limit of misshaping the mentality of the legal officer accountable for customer's case.
"It is critical to remind the Acting President that our customer's available political trial began from his true blue exercise of his intrinsically ensured rights to self assurance as obviously accommodated under surviving laws, and worldwide instruments/pledges.
"It is, along these lines, sensibly expected that any of such additional legal comments ought not radiate from the venerated office of the Acting President.
"With due love to the Acting President, and his rank as a Senior Advocate of Nigeria, we consider it required to express the right position of the law as it identifies with his flawed position.
"We watched most deferentially that the scholarly silk made this comment in guide reaction to stop see dangers and final proposal passed on to Igbo living in the northern piece of the nation, by a faceless and ignorant gathering, passing by the name of Arewa Youths Consultative Forum.
"Be that as it may, it must be noted submissively that it is a slip-up to liken the legal and authentic desires and tumults for Biafra with the unlawful, illicit and ill-conceived quit notice, and risk given to the Igbo to leave the North by this gathering.
"We submit most modestly that the privilege to self assurance, conspicuous under different instruments, which Nigeria is a gathering to, is obviously accommodated under Article 20(1) of the African Charter on Human and Peoples Rights (Ratification and Enforcement) ( Act Cap 10) Laws of the Federation of Nigeria 1990."
Moreover, Ejiofor, who informed newsmen close by insight to Kanu's co-litigants, Chidiebere Onwudiwe, Benjamin Madubugwu, David Nwawuisi and Bright Chimezie, blamed the Federal Government for purposely disappointing out and out hearing on the treasonable lawful offense allegation against the respondents.
Therefore, Kanu and his co-respondents, requested a prompt withdrawal of the revised five-count charge as a detriment to them, saying they have not conferred any offense that is known to the law
Likewise, yesterday, IPOB and its initiative worldwide have censured Governor Dave Umahi of Ebonyi State for supposedly releasing his colleagues to attack Abakaliki Central Market to assault the merchants there for the energizing welcome they concurred Kanu, when he went to the state.
IPOB in an announcement by its Media and Publicity Secretary, Comrade Emma Powerful, stated: "The senator displayed the most abnormal amount of guile by educating his partners in crime and frauds to assault the blameless merchants who turned out as once huge mob to welcome their pioneer in Abakaliki, the Ebonyi State capital.
IPOB additionally noticed that Ebonyi is not the main state to give Kanu an upbeat welcome and neither will it be the last, and, along these lines, cautioned that such juvenile and jealous clampdown on dealers and IPOB officers in Ebonyi State will hurry Umahi's arrival into political blankness.
"The representative should realize that as of now, IPOB is without question the biggest and most powerful flexibility battling outfit anyplace in the entire world. We are solidly settled in Ebonyi State and we need to caution him that provoking IPOB will realize his defeat; we can pull him down with our supporters by simply verbal, not brutality. He ought to be cautioned."
"We likewise need to disclose to him that should he wish to keep serving his Northern political experts, he should migrate to Sokoto in light of the fact that Ebonyi State is one of the most grounded states in Biafran arrive, where the subjects are truly resolved to reestablish Biafra and Governor David Umahi can't extinguish the yearning of Ebonyi individuals in such manner, rather Ebonyi individuals are prepared to dump him in view of assaults against IPOB and its administration.
"This Governor David Nweze Umahi of Ebonyi State, requested his associates to attack the Abakaliki Central Market yesterday to threaten brokers, by devastating their merchandise and properties worth a huge number of naira as discipline for closing down their organizations so as to turn out douches to welcome our pioneer Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, what a desirous demonstration"
"That assault coordinated by Governor Umahi was completely brutal and unrefined conduct, originating from a chose open officer of his gauge, it is characteristic of the ethical rot at the heart and tallness of administration in Nigeria particularly, Ebonyi State that has not seen any significant advancement, since the initiation of this organization that is just keen on securing the Fulani herders that has been assaulting his state.
"That the Governor looked to put down his office by requesting the ridiculous and unmerited assault on honest merchants, simply show his submissive reliability to his Hausa Fulani experts, and affirms the broadly held view that South East Governors, more than Governors of other geo-political zone, are political quislings available no matter what to the Arewa North.
"They have no brain of their own and along these lines, are prepared and will do anything to satisfy their Northern bosses, regardless of the possibility that it implies executing their own particular individuals, what a disgrace of administration in this piece of the world.
"Political office holders like Governor Umahi, and other who owe their political survival to Hausa Fulani support are driven by reactionary propensities, for example, unimportant envy and not profound ideological conviction in themselves and that is the reason they have room schedule-wise to assault issues concerning IPOB."
ABA— The Ralph Uwazuruike-led Biafra Independence Movement, BIM, has described anyone calling for the boycott of the November 18, Anambra State governorship poll, as anti-Igbo.
