By Dr Chinedu Jideofo-Ogbuagu
IPOB’s sit-at-home is costing huge amounts of money, which has been put at over N100 billion for everyday the sit-at-home order has been complied with.
Obviously, we are against the weekly sit-at-home, because it is too costly for South-East economy and because it has also cost lives and properties. Above all, it will not achieve release of Nnamdi Kanu.
We recommend that instead of the South-East governors engaging the pro-Biafra agitators in a show of force and supremacy, that the South-East governors directly or indirectly engage the freedom agitators in realistic and effective dialogue.
Naturally, the issue of proscription of IPOB by the South-East and Federal Governments would come up, and we advise that the South-East governors unproscribe or deproscribe the pro-Biafra activists.
We also advise that the South-East governors prevail on President Buhari to mend fences with IPOB. And we hope that IPOB, as part of a deal, will apologize to President Buhari while the Federal Government should pay compensation for unwarranted military assault on the Kanu household that resulted in the death of many people – including Nnamdi’s parents.
Also, as part of the deal, IPOB should cease Radio Biafra broadcasts, including their insults on President Buhari, etc, and engage in civil society or political activism until President Buhari vacates office on 29th May 2023.
South-East APC Integrity Group hereby offers to participate in the process of release of Nnamdi Kanu and negotiated settlement between IPOB and the governments that proscribed them quite unjustifiably.
Chinedu Jideofo-Ogbuagu
Convener of South-East APC Integrity Group and National Coordinator of South-East APC Presidency Project 2023.
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