Nnamdi Kanu says undue influence of Yoruba Muslims in their affairs will bring about demise of southwest

INDIGENOUS People of Biafra (Ipob) leader Nnamdi Kanu has declared that the undue influence of Yoruba Muslims in the affairs of the southwest geo-political zone will bring about the demise of the ethnic group in the years ahead.

Highly controversial, Mr Kanu is currently on the run from Nigeria where he is facing treason charges and is now in the UK where he travelled to via Israel. Speaking yesterday in London, Mr Kanu, who is campaigning to recreate the breakaway republic of Biafra castigated Yoruba's for their role in the subjugation of Ndigbo.

Talking about the January 1966 bloody coup which ushered in military rule in Nigeria, Mr Kanu said that the putsch, which some described as Igbo coup, was carried out to stop a grand design of the Fulani to takeover Sub-Saharan Africa. He alleged that there has been a grand agenda over 200 years old by the Fulani to silence other regions in the country.

According to Mr Kanu, it is this alleged grand design that confronts Biafrans today, adding that the Fulani are being allowed to get away with these excesses because they have managed to subdue all Nigerians. In his broadcast, Mr Kanu vowed that the Fulani will never control the Biafrans.

He said: “My people, we have the moral and religious obligations to make these sacrifices for our future generation lest they blame us for our inactions. That we are standing under a shade today is possible only because somebody some time ago planted a tree.

“If you take the recent experience of Justice Onnoghen, you will understand that what is unfolding before us today is a grand agenda that is at least 200 years old. It is the grand design of the caliphate founders, going all the way back to Uthman Dan Fodio.

“It is a grand design that the gallant heroes of the January 15 1966 revolutionaries tried to stop and it is a grand design that has been at the centre of the trouble with Nigeria. This is the grand design that confronts us as Biafrans today.

“This is the grand design that must be defeated for the black man everywhere on the planet to finally be free because it is true that in Biafra Africa died, this also means that in Biafra, Africa shall resurrect by the power of Almighty Chukwu Okike Abiam. It is no secret that Jubril, aka Buhari is the arrowhead of the unfolding grand design of the Fulani to dominate the whole of the Sahel region.

"If anyone is still in doubt as to this design, the recent rally in Kano by Jubril-Buhari that had two serving Fulani governors from Niger Republic attending should clear it up. It has never been about Nigeria but about what the Fulani want.

“Yorubaland, as we know, extends into Dahomey in present day Benin Republic and even to parts of Togo where incidentally they speak Yoruba as a language. Can anyone imagine the angst that would have accompanied the alliance of mainstream Yoruba politicians with their counterparts in Benin Republic and Togo?

“All hell would practically have been let loose. Ironically segments of the Yoruba media is once again shamefully acquiescing in this situation.

“Fulani are being allowed to get away with these excesses because they have managed to subdue all Nigerians but not we Biafrans. Nigeria has effectively become a Fulani caliphate before our eyes.

“The undue influence of Yoruba Muslims in the affairs of Yorubaland will mark the end of them as a great race. They have not learnt from history including the Afonja/Janta-Alimi saga and the Abiola humiliation. Ironically, most people hardly learn from history even though history could easily repeat itself.”