IPOB’s Nnamdi Kanu Vs FG: Okorocha Calls For Dialogue

Senator Rochas Okorocha on Monday called on the President Muhammadu Buhari-led government to dialogue with the outlawed Indiginous People of Biafra (IPOB) and the group’s leader, Mazi Nnamdi Kanu.

Okorocha gave the advise at the Secretariat of the Federal Capital Territory FCT Council of the Nigeria Union of Journalists (NUJ) during an event tagged “Conversations with Owelle at 59”, monitored by EkoHotBlog.

The former Imo State Governor also advised the Federal Government to seek an out of court settlement as use of force or arms will not solve the security situation in the South East.

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Okorocha said, “Nnamdi Kanu’s matter has become a tribal issue and we have lost a sense of the sensitivity of the matter. Ab initio, I had advised that government should have been careful in handling the issue and not to shoot the image of the boy too high.

“The Federal Government and southeast should meet and find a way out to this issue. It is an evil wind that will blow no one no good. Nnamdi Kanu should not be made a very big issue. I wish like a senator said, that we call this young man and ask him to convince us why he wants to give us another passport or to ask him about his anger. If we can talk, we would find out that this issue is not worth the trouble we are going through.

‘We need to reorient them because what is common now in the Southeast is that they are saying that they heard that ‘they’ want to give Boko Haram amnesty while Nnamdi Kanu is in detention. So, it is no longer a Kanu thing but has taken a tribal dimension.

‘The earlier we get this issue off and see him as an overzealous young man who didn’t even experience the civil war but who is talking about the war more than those who experienced it, the better for all of us.’