Nnamdi Kanu not responsible for underdevelopment in Abia … Ikpeazu *Security agencies behind  ‘fake news’… Kanu’s family

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High Chief John Okiyi Kalu, Commissioner for Information, Abia State has rebutted media reports that Gov. Okezie Ikpeazu has accused the Leader of the Indigenous Peoples of Biafra, IPOB, Mazi Nnamdi Kanu of being responsible for underdevelopments in the state.

Okiyi Kalu debunked the allegation in a telephone conversation, insisting that there was no element of truth in the said media report, while describing perpetrators of the rumour as cheap attention seekers.

The said story which is trending on many social media platforms, states that Ikpeazu had allegedly made the remarks during a Zoom media conference with some journalists on Saturday.

According to the report, Governor Ikpeazu lamented that the President Muhammadu  Buhari -led Federal Government “abandoned Abia state because of  Nnamdi Kanu”.

Ikpeazu was further quoted as claiming  that “Nnamdi Kanu is the reason he has not developed Abia and completed some of the projects he promised to do because each time he approaches the Federal Government to ‘demand money, they always tell me that my state is harboring terrorists’ “.

Also contained in the said report, the governor had also threatened to appoint a  replacement for Kanu’s late father should the IPOB Leader who is the Prince of Isiama Afaraukwu community fail to return home to succeed the late monarch who was buried in February.

The report read in part:
The ‘fake news’ further quoted the governor as saying : ”I have decided to take the final decision as the executive Governor of Abia state.

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“Nnamdi Kanu has done harms to Abia State! He is the reason I didn’t develop Abia and complete some of the projects I promised to do because each time I go to the FG to demand money, they always tell me that my state is harboring Terrorists.

“Nnamdi committed an offense and ran away before the unfortunate death of his father. Now it’s time to make a decision.

“If after 21 days from now and he fails to come back and be crowned the king of Ibeku, I will have no option than to appoint a king myself and whoever I appoint must remain till I leave the office.”

However, the  Information Commissioner has enjoined members of the public to discard such media report stressing that, “it does not deserve any response.”

In a related development, Kanu’s family dismissed the remarks attributed to the governor in the said report as ridiculous.

Kanu’s younger brother, Prince Emmanuel Kanu who spoke on behalf of the family said the claims of the report “are senseless and petty”, adding that there was no basis for the governor to make such comments.

The family however, accused security agencies of planting the said report in the media to distract Kanu in his unwavering quest to actualise Biafra; and to possibly pitch the family against the state government.

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Prince Emmanuel said his brother “is too occupied with the struggle for Biafra restoration and has no time to be entangled with kingship matter”  of their local community.

He said the intention of those behind the ridiculous story was to possibly distract the IPOB Leader from his course , but quickly added that it was a failed mission.

According to Prince Emmanuel, Kanu as well as the family  is too busy with the Biafra project, and has no time for kingship tussle ,although he said there was no ezeship dispute in  their community.

He warned those he described as enemies of the family who usually collude with security agencies to fabricate lies against the Kanu family to retrace their steps.

“We know where this latest blackmail  is coming from. It’s the same saboteurs who collude with security agencies to malign us. Their intention has always been to frame us up and blackmail my brother.

” But we assure them that we cannot be distracted. My brother is resolute in his resolve towards Biafra restoration which must come this year. He can’t fall for their cheap trick.

“The security agencies should stop wasting their money on those saboteurs because they have run out of ideas. Biafra project is beyond Abia State, it’s a regional movement “.

By Famous Reporters

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