The Ohanaeze Ndigbo has requested President Muhammadu Buhari to permit IPOB leader Nnamdi Kanu to address the Igbos as the crisis in the country’s southeast worsens.
The highest socio-political organization has placed a bounty on Simon Ekpa and has since claimed that he is responsible for the heinous bloodshed in the southeast.
Ohanaeze claims that Ekpa is using Kanu’s protracted arrest because he is a fame-seeker and opportunist.
The group contends that allowing Kanu to address Ndigbo prior to the February election is the best way to put an end to the current lunacy.
“This madness of sit-at-home and incessant killings and insecurity we are witnessing in the Southeast can be traced to the continuous incarceration of Nnamdi Kanu, which Simon Ekpa is taking undue advantage of.
“Ekpa is an opportunist, a fame and fortune seeker who saw the window and lapses of Kanu’s detention as an opportunity for him to venture into his journey of amassing wealth from politicians and destroying the people of the Southeast.
“The only cure to this madness of Simon Ekpa is a passionate appeal to the President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria to allow the leader of IPOB to address Ndigbo, possibly this February before the elections because there is a grand conspiracy by some external enemies of Ndigbo, and they are using Ekpa to shortchange and ensure that there is an election boycott in the Southeast.
“The only cure to this Ekpa’s madness is for Buhari to allow Kanu, even if it’s a five-minute broadcast because Kanu has continued to say through his lawyers that these killings and insecurity in the Southeast should end.
“The activities of unknown gunmen instigated by Ekpa should end, and why there has been no effect on those messages is that the people doubt if those messages are from Nnamdi Kanu.
“So, in order to have a peaceful election, the Federal Government should give Nnamdi Kanu a five-minute broadcast to talk to the people of the Southeast; this would end Ekpa and his madness”, the Secretary-General of Ohanaeze Ndigbo, Mazi Okechukwu Isiguzoro said in a statement.