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From Okwe Obi, Abuja
A chieftain of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Chike Obidigbo, has decried the life sentence slammed on the leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Nnamdi Kanu, saying that it is the height of continuing insensitivity and injustice against Ndigbo.
Obidigbo, in a statement yesterday, regretted that the political undertones of the IPOB leader’s trial was allowed to take the shape and tone of terrorism, stressing that the President Bola Tinubu-led federal government has set yet another trap for the Igbo and South East geo-political zone.
He added that the development re-awakens the memories of the British-engineered trap that led to the Biafran secession followed by a deadly civil war, which lasted for three years, resulting in the loss of about five million Biafran lives in what was seen as the worst genocide only second to the Jewish holocaust by Nazi Germany.
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“This life sentence on Kanu revives the pains, humiliations, marginalization and the punishments the Igbo has to put up with since the end of the civil strife in 1970. It appears that the Igbo haters, including the British, French, Fulani North and some elements in South West and their political accomplices in Igboland out fear that Igbo may rise up again, from the ashes of the past destruction and evil designs against, decided to set another trap and stop the Igbo in their track,” he stated.
Obidigbo wondered whether the sentencing of Kanu was actually the decision of the presiding Justice James Omotosho of the Federal High Court, noting that right from the time Justice Binta Yako recused herself from the trial, it became obvious that the government in cahoots with her covert allies was determined to have its way, that will hurt badly and provoke the Igbo one more time.
According to him, “From the gloating of Igbo traducers, it was obvious that Nnamdi Kanu was not the real target, but the Igbo nation, which is being dared to react in such a way that could trigger a conclusive genocide upon them.”
