How can these be rhetorical questions, Chidi, on such a controversial subject?
What is the preliminary process for achieving sovereignty of Biafra in a political system dominated by people, the SW political elite, who promised restructuring but have chosen to forget about it now that they have a man in Aso Rock, those who are set against even restructuring, the Muslim North, in a country with a legislative representation in which even if all SE representatives are for Biafra they is no way they would succeed against those odds?
Who are these rabble you refer to? So, those Igbos who conducted a successful Biafra remembrance day sit at home on 30th May are rabble, the majority of people in central SE states? The various people fired by the Biafra vision, a vision that has galvanized the Nigerian social and political space as no cause has in recent history and in a way that transcends party affiliation are rabble?
Who are the current Igbo leaders? Ohaneze whose cry of marginalization in appointments leads people to remind them of how Ndigbo were favoured in GEJ's govt and how the whole country is suffering from one form of marginalization or another? Is it the people demanding Igbo Presidency as if the Presidency is anybody's right?
Those people have no popular mandate bcs they have no compelling cause.
A leader is a person people identify with, whatever others may say. Can you point to anyone identified with across the SE and beyond like Nnamdi Kanu?
What are his manners you refer to? Making himself available for arrest and refusing to surrender his dream in spite of an illegal two year imprisonment?
If Kanu's message were largely lies and half truths he would have long been discredited. Instead, his efforts have galvanized political discourse at a high level in reverberations reshaping Nigeria, even though at the level of speculative positioning for now.
Social movements do not always succeed through the momentum of their original founders. Kanu has found his way to being the face and voice of IPOB. Nothing can stop that. I think we should make the most of this great opportunity.
thanks
toyin
On 28 June 2017 at 00:08, Chidi Anthony Opara <chidi.opara@gmail.com> wrote:
Toyin,
These are rhetorical questions.
Kanu never made any real efforts to activate even the preliminary process of achieving the sovereignty of Biafra. He rather prefers to rouse the rabble with lies and half-truths.
It may interest you to know for instance, that Kanu did not found IPOB as he claimed, he is not even the spokesman of the group, he was made the Director of Radio Biafra. As I write, the real founders of IPOB have taken back their organization, leaving Kanu with his original position of Director of Radio Biafra.
Kanu has potentials and can emerge as an Igbo leader in the nearest future if he can put his present manners in check.
CAO.
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