Shun Nnamdi Kanu’s Call For Boycott Of 2019 Polls — Uwazuruike Urges Igbo

Founder of the Movement for the Actualisation of Sovereign State of Biafra (MASSOB), Ralph Uwazuruike, has urged Igbo to disregard the call by leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Nnamdi Kanu, for boycott of 2019 general elections in South East as contained in his broadcast last Sunday.

Uwazuruike described the call for boycott of the election as laughable and unrealistic.

“Such call was laughable because he does not have control of election in Nigeria; his intention was to incite his members into a venture that could lead to death of innocent Igbo people again,” he said.

Uwazuruike, who said this while interacting with newsmen in Owerri, said Kanu is not worth dying for.

The leader of IPOB had, last Sunday, during a broadcast he made when he resurfaced in Israel, after his disappearance in March, said there would be no election in South-East in 2019.

“Nnamdi Kanu, out of ignorance, called for boycott of Anambra election last year and the election held, now that he is calling for another boycott, how does he want to achieve that?” the MASSOB leader wondered.

He added that without the vote of South East, a president will emerge in Nigeria, “so, it will make no meaning for the South East to boycott 2019 election.”

Uwazuruike also challenged Kanu to explain how he traveled to Israel after his international passport was seized by the Federal Government before his release.

Regardless, Secretary of Eastern Consultative Assembly (ECA) and Founder, Igbo Youth Movement (IYM), Evangelist Elliot Ugochukwu-Uko, has said Kanu’s broadcast, last Sunday, has changed the equation for 2019 general election.

Ugochukwu-Uko, who was one of the few Nigerians Kanu mentioned and commended for their truthfulness and firmness in the cause of justice during his broadcast on Radio Biafra, said 95 percent of Igbo see the IPOB leader as their hero, and hearing his voice last Sunday brought great excitement and hope to the people.

He advised the Nigerian government to find ways of dialoguing with Kanu and IPOB, instead of engaging in brutal approach of wasting the lives of the “unarmed” people, insisting that the people seem to believe the IPOB leader more now, after most of what he said earlier happened.

“Now, we are in election season, I plead with political leaders to approach IPOB and talk with them. Shooting and killing them will never solve the problem. And Nnamdi’s voice that was heard this evening (Sunday) all over the world has changed the equation for this election.”